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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!
About the role
As a Principal Software Engineer on our video player team, you will lead the design, development, and optimization of our next-generation video player library. You will be an advocate for pushing our core values of excellence in operations, engineering, and delivery. You will establish relationships across Engineering, Program Management, Product, and QA to help establish our technology roadmap to meet our primary goals. You will join an international team of 100+ client engineers and leaders that have helped establish Crunchyroll as the leader in its space.
In the role of Principal Engineer, you will report to the Software Engineer Director, Video Players.
We are considering applicants for the locations of Dallas, San Francisco, or LA.
About You
- You are passionate about technology and the streaming space and have 15+ years industry experience.
- You have the experience to sustain our core values of excellence in operations, delivery, and engineering.
- You have been a developer, technical leader, and an architect of front end customer facing applications.
- You have developed solutions used by millions of users.
- You can demonstrate experience working with your product and program peers to help establish technology roadmaps.
- You can demonstrate experience leading technology leaders and driving important engineering programs.
- You apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
- You have expertise in multimedia frameworks and protocols, such as MPEG-DASH and HLS.
- You have hands-on experience developing in multiple code stacks - mobile, web, backend, db, infrastructure.
About the Team
The Video Player team is a growing team of international engineers and technology leaders passionate about providing a world class streaming experience for our millions of Anime fans across the world. We provide and maintain solutions on all major device platforms. Your contributions on this team are front and center to our millions of fans, affecting the daily success of our company.
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:
- 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!
#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid
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
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Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
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Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
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Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
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Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
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.
Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs
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