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!
Enterprise Technology builds and operates software that supports critical business capabilities across the organization. As a Software Engineer III, you will independently own complex engineering projects, significant features, services, integrations, and technical workstreams from design through production.
You will take on problems where the path is not always obvious, help clarify requirements, make project-level technical decisions, and use business and customer context to guide your approach. You will use AI coding agents to move faster on complex work and help other engineers use them effectively and responsibly.
What You’ll Do:- Own significant features, services, integrations, or project workstreams from problem definition and design through production support.
- Solve complex and ambiguous engineering problems and design maintainable APIs, data models, workflows, components, and user experiences.
- Help define project scope, technical approach, success criteria, and delivery milestones.
- Make project-level technical decisions and recommend improvements within established architecture.
- Strengthen quality through design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, observability, documentation, and secure engineering practices.
- Use AI coding agents and other AI-assisted tools to improve delivery and quality, while applying strong judgment about when human review or deeper validation is needed.
- Diagnose complex production issues, identify root causes, and improve reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Guide other engineers through technical problem solving, review, knowledge sharing, and project collaboration.
- 5+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
- Experience independently owning complex features, services, integrations, or technical project workstreams.
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript and solid software engineering fundamentals.
- Strong experience with cloud environments, preferably GCP, including CI/CD, monitoring, debugging, security, performance, and reliability.
- Experience making technical design decisions and recognizing when broader architectural implications require escalation.
- Experience building production systems with strong automated testing, observability, maintainability, and security.
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted software development tools and understanding their strengths, limitations, and appropriate use.
- Clear communication and the ability to explain trade-offs, navigate ambiguity, and influence project-level decisions.
- Experience with modernization, refactoring, migrations, or technical debt reduction.
- Experience owning complex enterprise applications, workflow platforms, integrations, or data-intensive systems.
- Experience building reusable components, developer tooling, observability tooling, or internal platforms.
- Experience with SOX controls, compliance-sensitive systems, or audit-heavy environments.
- Domain experience in media, streaming, or content supply chains.
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
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Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
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.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of progressive software engineering experience
- Experience independently owning complex features, services, integrations, or technical project workstreams
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Strong experience with cloud environments, preferably GCP
- Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, debugging, security, performance, and reliability
- Experience making technical design decisions and recognizing broader architectural implications
- Experience building production systems with automated testing, observability, maintainability, and security
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted software development tools
- Clear communication and ability to explain trade-offs, navigate ambiguity, and influence project-level decisions
- Experience with modernization, refactoring, migrations, or technical debt reduction
- Experience owning complex enterprise applications, workflow platforms, integrations, or data-intensive systems
- Experience building reusable components, developer tooling, observability tooling, or internal platforms
- Experience with SOX controls, compliance-sensitive systems, or audit-heavy environments
- Domain experience in media, streaming, or content supply chains
Crunchyroll Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Crunchyroll and has not been reviewed or approved by Crunchyroll.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with multiple plan options plus mental-health/EAP resources, and some plans are described as having low premiums or even fully covered options.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is presented as flexible or unlimited and is augmented by additional company holidays such as summer Fridays and a year-end shutdown.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a company match that is noted as meaningful and in some cases matched per paycheck.
Crunchyroll Insights
What We Do
At Crunchyroll, we deliver what anime fans love—anytime, anywhere. With the world’s largest anime streaming library, we connect fans to the stories, characters, and creators they love. But Crunchyroll is more than just a destination to watch anime—it's a global ecosystem where anime lives and breathes beyond the screen. From streaming and theatrical releases to merch, games, news, events, and music, we offer fans immersive experiences that celebrate anime culture in all its forms. Headquartered in the U.S. with teams and reach across the globe, Crunchyroll is an independently operated joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex of Japan. This unique partnership gives us the power to scale globally while staying rooted in anime’s cultural origins, ensuring authenticity and access for fans everywhere. We believe anime is more than entertainment—it’s a way of life. And we’re here to champion that passion every day.
Why Work With Us
We take the People Experience seriously here at Crunchyroll. Join a diverse team of talented, ambitious people who treat each other well and believe that how we win is just as important as winning.
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