Staff Engineer, Video Engineering - Crunchyroll｜Meet.jobs

About the jobWho 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: San Francisco, Remote

About The Team

The Crunchyroll team is growing and expanding our video engineering organization to provide our Anime fans across the globe a high-quality, innovative, performant, and reliable video playback experience. Our video teams are responsible for building and supporting business critical video systems and video-related cloud solutions..We work with multiple teams to build scalable and reliable services.

A day in the life of Staff Software Engineer

 

Design & build highly efficient services and infrastructure for video encoding, delivery & playback

Work with product teams to drive both new features and improve and maintain critical consumer facing services

Collaborate with internal teams and ensure they are successful in ingesting video content

Ensure the ingested content is delivered to our end users in a highly optimized & secured manner (performant & protected with DRM)

Collaborate multi-functionally with client engineering teams, infrastructure and core system teams

Innovate on technologies used to deliver a best in class video playback experience

About You:

5+ years of software development experience with OTT video delivery

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

Experience with one or more high level languages like Java, Python, Javascript

Expertise in cloud VOD transcode and packaging services.

Knowledge of cloud based encoding workflows and how they integrate with industry standards audio/video codecs (AVC/HEVC/DD+), HDR (HDR10/Dolby Vision), DRM technologies (Fairplay, Playready, Widevine).

Strong understanding of HTTP based adaptive video delivery formats (HLS, DASH)

Expertise in multifaceted ad insertion, both client-side and server-side

Knowledge of cloud delivery (AWS or GCP is a plus).

Technical background in video, back-end, distributed systems with attention to scalability

Always advocating for engineering excellence and operational excellence

Enjoy taking ownership for critical operations

Get passionate about finding simple solutions to complex technical challenges

You have deep understanding of QoE/QoS related to video distribution and understand the observability and monitoring and take steps to implement it

Ambitious in your goals but pragmatic in your approach

Insist following standard methodologies in all aspects of engineering and video delivery (KISS, OOP, SOLID, etc)

Strong understanding of playback flows from a client application standpoint

A willingness to be on-call on a rotational basis to quickly address customer facing issues

Strong quantitative, analytical, problem solving, debugging and decision-making skills.

Benefits: San Francisco

Competitive salary

“Use What You Need” time away from work policy

Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance

Health care and dependent care FSA

401(k) plan with employer match

Support program for new parents

Fun, passionate and skilled co-workers

 

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About Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with the content and experiences they love. In addition to free ad-supported and subscription premium content, Crunchyroll serves the anime community across events, theatrical, games, consumer products, collectibles and manga publishing.

Anime fans have access to one of the largest collections of licensed anime through Crunchyroll and translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast. 

The Crunchyroll app is available on over 15 platforms, including all gaming consoles.

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.

Our Company Values

You’ll see these in action if we’re lucky enough to have you:

 

*Courage *- When we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.

Curiosity - We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.

Service - We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

Kaizen - We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

 

 

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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