Principal Software Engineer

Who We Are

We’re a cast of characters working to shine a spotlight on anime. Crunchyroll is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our About Us pages for more information about our collection of brands.

Location: Hyderabad, India

About The Team

We are a team of enterprise technology professionals who own the automation, cloud infrastructure, and AI assisted operations that power the finance and monetization systems behind Crunchyroll

About You:

• 15+ years experience leading design and implementation of complex software systems
• Experience developing and leading the highest priority initiatives, delivering on customer satisfaction while also meeting business expectations
• 6+ years experience building scalable, serverless solutions in GCP or AWS
• Experience in Python
• Act as the technical lead for our most challenging, cross-functional projects.
• Thoroughly understand system interdependencies and constraints.
• Have expert knowledge in performance optimization, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• You are comfortable leading and maintaining relationships with vendors and partners
• You develop and expand your team through interviewing and coaching activities
• Your documentation sets the standard for all engineers in the organization
• You lead through influence versus authority, you know how to navigate difficult subjects and resolve contentious issues.
• You advocate for the creation of new software only when it is necessary, and you can determine when to build a solution versus when to use off the shelf components
• Ability to lead investigations into failing critical business processes while delegating work to individuals and providing appropriate communication with key partners
• Unwavering confidence in the face of uncertainty, capable of guiding teams to success by examining risks and providing unique solutions

Nice to Haves:

• Worked at a streaming media company
• Experience working with integration platforms like Mulesoft 

A day in the life of a Principal Software Engineer:

• Work across engineering teams, product managers, and key partners to understand business critical bottlenecks
• Instill engineering excellence across organizational domains through education, tooling, and one-on-one guidance
• Improve the security of our platform through better tooling, monitoring, and alerting
• Work with operations to evaluate new infrastructure choices and identify architectural standard methodologies with a focus on empowering engineers to operate independently
• Support and improve internal processes including engineering, product, and communications
• Work closely with Finance, Content Operations,  Marketing, and others from the Senior Management Team to understand critical business problems and provide innovative solutions
• You actively participate in the coaching, mentoring of engineers you interact with and are a core part of the hiring and recruiting process.
• You write critical code and make the right trade-offs. You solve sophisticated problems with solutions that are as simple as possible.
• Dive deeply into highly ambiguous and significantly sophisticated problem spaces to understand core requirements and provide innovative solutions