Engineering Manager, Platform

Engineering Manager, Account Services

Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it's powered by the anime content we all love.

Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

About The Team

You will manage a team of engineers that are pioneering tools and technologies to build outstanding user experiences across more than 10 platforms for multiple brands. You'll work closely with design, user-experience, and user-testing teams to deliver dynamic experiences. Video is at the core of our streaming service, and we partner with other content operations, video infrastructure and client teams. We manage metadata and ensure it is available at scale to millions of our anime fans. This team also supports both external partners and company partners end-to-end, as content is ingested, organized and distributed within our applications and to other parties.

This position reports to the Director of Platform Engineering. This is a hybrid position and requires you to be onsite at our LA office 3 days a week.

About You :

• 10+ years of experience in building cloud-native applications, with a focus on backend development and microservice architecture, 4+ years of experience as team lead or manager
• You allocate resources to maintain a balance between workload distribution and team productivity
• Experience in Typescript / Node.js or Golang; Java, Scala, or Kotlin a plus.
• Experience with databases, including DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL or PostgresDB
• Extensive experience with AWS, developing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native applications in API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, ECS, S3, and DynamoDB
• Experience in CI / CD and SDLC processes, specifically with GitHub Actions, IaC(Pulumi), serverless architectures, and creating unit and integration tests
• Experience in operational excellence (on-call rotations, incident management)
• Experience in writing and evaluating clean, functional, high-quality, and testable code across various projects
• Thrive in Agile and collaborative environments, leveraging insights and expertise to develop technical solutions that resonate with our users

Pluses :

A day in the life of our Platform Engineering Manager :

Why You Will Love Working at Crunchyroll

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks :

#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid

The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll's Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.

Pay Transparency - Los Angeles, CA

$180,000 - $225,000 USD

About Our Values

We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value :

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.