Senior DevOps Engineer, Core Infrastructure Engineering
CrunchyrollSan Francisco, CA, United StatesPosted 24 February 2026
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Job Description
About Crunchyroll
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 role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the Core Infrastructure team, you are a key person in managing and scaling the systems and services that power our streaming platform. Your expertise in cloud technologies and DevOps methodologies enables you to take on complex challenges independently and create scalable solutions that meet our customers' needs. You will work with our delivery teams and lead projects, driving them forward to completion and ensuring that the platform processes and best practices are being followed. In collaboration with other engineers, you develop tools and systems that support services and facilitate high-quality software delivery. You will work with our delivery teams to ensure that their systems are efficient and reliable, guide them to better quality and practices including observability and troubleshooting of services incident management. You are expected to take initiatives to improve what we do overall, introduce new technologies processes when it is needed and share knowledge across teams.
You will report to the Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering.
About You
You have an in-depth understanding of Software and DevOps methodologies, automation, and infrastructure as code. Your experience in designing, building, and scaling high availability systems shows your commitment to operational excellence. You excel in a collaborative environment and can work well with your teammates, providing a good example to other engineers to achieve high quality and standards in everything they do.
Requirements:
At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar.
8+ years of experience working in production-level environments as a DevOps/SRE
Proficient in AWS cloud technologies, coupled with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Pulumi and Terraform
3+ years of experience managing containerized infrastructure in ECS or Kubernetes
Experience in GitOps practices and CI/CD.
Experience managing Linux based infrastructure.
Experience with observability and instrumentation of services so that efficient dashboards and alerts are created.
Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL and non-relational databases like MongoDB, DynamoDB.
Experience with CDN and caching technologies including AWS CloudFront.
Experience working with and guiding Software Engineers in production best practices, sharing knowledge across teams and teammates.
Experience in at least two or more scripting languages including TypeScript.
Able to accommodate periodic off-hour meetings with the international team members.
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders.
Participate in an on-call and developer support rotations.
Pluses:
Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video origin architecture, and issues of scale for video delivery.
Proficiency in TypeScript
Familiarity with big data and payments domain.
Understand security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security protocols.
Familiarity with Datadog
Familiarity with GitHub Actions
About the Team
At Crunchyroll, our Core Infrastructure Engineering team forms the foundation on which our services are built and directly influence our customer experience and the velocity of our engineers. Our team focus is to ensure that our developers are enabled, self-service, that everything about our infrastructure ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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