Data Engineer III

About the Company

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, helping them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether 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

The Data Services team focuses 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, establish best practices, provide training, and document 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 Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing data services to support the needs of the business. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance eventing systems and develop tools that empower our data and services teams. Your expertise will drive 100% automation, best practices, scalable services, and optimized data environments.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented API and code while adhering to industry best practices, including code reviews and design patterns.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring both frontend and backend components are optimized for speed and reliability.
• Contribute to the automation and optimization of build, deployment, and monitoring processes to support a smooth development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive test suites (unit and integration) to ensure system reliability and robustness.
• Implement and maintain security best practices, safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications/services using TypeScript and Python and modern backend frameworks (Node.js preferred).
• Build event-driven architectures and event interfaces using AWS services such as SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, or Kafka.
• Architect and optimize database schemas and queries for relational (RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB), and Graph Database (Neo4j).
• Collaborate with service engineers, data engineers, and product teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Apply best practices for code quality, security, testing, and performance optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, specializing in microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript (Node.js) and Python.
• Experience building applications/services using TypeScript and Python with modern backend frameworks (Node.js preferred).
• Deep understanding of cloud-based architectures (AWS preferred), including serverless frameworks, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and event interfaces (Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis).
• Strong database design skills across relational (RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB), and Graph Database (Neo4j).
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ownership mentality, and ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or Graph RAG architectures.
• Knowledge of fine-tuning and optimizing LLMs for performance and cost efficiency.
• Deep understanding of AWS Processing Framework like Step Functions.

Benefits

• Great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
• Flexible time off policies.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance.
• Health Savings 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 offices are pet-friendly.

Pay

Actual pay will vary based on factors including location, experience, and performance. The range listed is 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.

• Los Angeles, CA: $148,000—$185,000 USD
• San Francisco, CA: $164,100—$205,100 USD