Senior Data Engineer - Platform Engineering

About Crunchyroll
WE HELP EVERYONE BELONG. IT’S OUR PURPOSE. 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!

Who We Are
We're a cast of characters working to shine a spotlight on anime. Crunchyroll is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our About Us pages for more information about our collection of brands.

About The Team
The Data Services team is focused on building robust, scalable, and efficient data services, pipelines, lakes, tools, libraries, and software components that drive best practices and empower service teams to succeed. We design and implement data services, pipelines, and data lakes for operational analysis, ensuring they are production-ready with automation and standardized access controls. We lead and evangelize the principle of 100% automation while establishing best practices, providing training, and documenting data architectures to ensure our systems are reliable, future-ready, and capable of continuous evolution and process improvement across the organization.

About The Role
Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world. The Data Engineering team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in:

• Designing, implementing, and optimizing data services and pipelines to support business needs.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable operational data analysis, enhance eventing systems, and develop empowering tools for our data and services teams.
• Driving 100% automation, best practices, creating scalable architectures, and optimizing our data environments.

This role is eligible for fully remote work and will report into our Director of Data Engineering - Platform Engineering.

About You
We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• Education:
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience:
  8+ years in data engineering, focusing on building and optimizing data pipelines, data architecture, and eventing systems.
• Technical Skills:
  Extensive experience with AWS cloud platform and data-related services, automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation), data lake and pipeline tools (e.g., Databricks, Apache Kafka/Kinesis, AWS Glue), programming languages (e.g., Python, Java), strong understanding of SQL (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, RDS) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Additional Skills:
  Experience in search optimization, CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks (e.g., dbt), strong problem-solving skills, proactive project ownership, effective collaboration, and strong communication skills, with a capacity to mentor junior engineers.

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll
Not only will you get to work with fun, passionate, and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy:

• A competitive compensation package including salary plus performance bonus potential.
• Flexible PTO and time off policies to allow you to be your whole self.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance options for you and your family.
• Health saving account (HSA) program, plus health care and dependent care FSA programs.
• Employer match on our 401(k) plan and commuter benefits (for eligible employees).
• Support program for new parents and pet insurance; some offices are pet friendly!

The Pay Range for this position is $185,440—$231,800 USD, with actual pay varying based on factors including location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees, which may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.

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:

• Courage: Overcoming fear to enable our best selves.
• Curiosity: Gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
• Service: Serving our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
• Kaizen: A growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion reflects our mission of helping people belong. It's just the way we do business. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll, not discriminating on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Crownchyroll, 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.

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