Staff DevOps Engineer

4 Months ago • 12 Years + • $191,840 PA - $239,800 PA
Devops

Job Description

As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you will automate and scale systems for the streaming platform. You will collaborate with SRE and delivery teams on infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and best practices. Responsibilities include developing tools and systems, ensuring high-quality software delivery, and mentoring other engineers. The role requires a strong background in automation, infrastructure as code, and experience in high-availability systems, with a focus on operational excellence. You will be responsible for driving projects to completion, establishing best practices, and automating them. The role involves mentoring other engineers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and continually improving our technology platform and infrastructure.
Good To Have:
  • Knowledge of streaming video delivery and video encoding
  • Familiarity with big data and payments domain
  • Understand security concepts
  • Experience with Vault, Packer, or other HashiCorp tools
  • Knowledge, or working experience with GCP
Must Have:
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  • 12+ years of DevOps and infrastructure management
  • 8+ years working in production environments
  • 5+ years managing containerized infrastructure
  • Proficiency in TypeScript or Javascript programming
  • Proficiency in automation, creating reusable patterns
  • Expertise in GitOps practices and CI/CD
  • 5+ years experience in AWS services
  • Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases
  • Experience guiding engineers in production best practices
  • Design and deployment experience with data sovereignty-driven designs
  • Collaboration with engineers to build supportive systems
Perks:
  • Great compensation package with salary and bonus potential
  • Flexible time off policies
  • 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 pet-friendly offices

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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 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 is automated and that our services are highly reliable and scalable.

About the role

As a Staff DevOps Engineer within the Core Infrastructure Engineering team, you are essential in automating and scaling the systems and services that power our streaming platform. You will work with our SRE team, delivery teams and lead projects related to infrastructure automation, scaling, CICD, driving them forward to completion and ensuring that the platform processes, automation 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 and architecture / infrastructure. You are expected to be highly collaborative working across teams to understand the needs, establish best practices and automate them whenever possible.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering.

About you

The ideal candidate for the Staff DevOps Engineer role has a strong background in automation, infrastructure as code, and enabling software engineers to deliver independently and safely at scale. You have experience building and scaling high-availability systems, with a focus on operational excellence. This role involves mentoring other engineers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and continually improving our technology platform and infrastructure. Your ability to excel in a collaborative environment sets an example for fellow engineers, contributing to a culture of high quality and standards in all aspects of our work.

Requirements:

  • At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar.

  • 12+ years of relevant experience in DevOps and infrastructure management.

  • 8+ years working in production environments, combining DevOps and software engineering.

  • 5+ years of experience managing containerized infrastructure in ECS or Kubernetes.

  • Proficient in programming in TypeScript or Javascript.

  • Proficiency in automation, creating reusable patterns and solutions.

  • Expertise in GitOps practices and CI/CD, including tools like GHA & CodeDeploy and infrastructure automation within CI/CD.

  • 5+ years experience in AWS and its major services such as ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, containerization, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Pulumi and Terraform.

  • Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., DynamoDB).

  • Experience guiding software engineers in production best practices, sharing knowledge across teams.

  • Design and deployment experience with data sovereignty-driven designs (e.g., GDPR).

  • Collaboration with other engineers to build tools and systems supporting services and facilitating high-quality software delivery.

Pluses:

  • Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video origin architecture, and issues of scale for video delivery.

  • Familiarity with big data and payments domain.

  • Understand security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security protocols.

  • Experience with Vault, Packer or other HashiCorp tools.

  • Knowledge, or working experience with GCP.

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!

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