Director of Engineering, Video

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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: San Francisco

Our headquarters is located in downtown San Francisco, where our group of cross-functional experts assemble to create experiences for our passionate communities.

Crunchyroll COVID-19 Hiring Status

Crunchyroll employees are currently working from home, and we are still conducting remote interviews and hiring during this time. This role is encouraged to start remotely, and we’ll work closely with you as we understand every person has outstanding circumstances.

About the team:

Our engineers are pioneering tools and technologies to efficiently build outstanding user experience across more than 10 platforms for multiple brands. We collaborate with innovative design, user- experience, and user-testing teams to deliver multifaceted experiences. Video is at the core of our streaming service and is supported by dedicated playback and infrastructure teams. Crunchyroll video platform services more than 4 billion minutes a month of DRM enabled multi-protocol streams across premium and ad-supported flows!

About the role:

As Director of Engineering for Video, you will be responsible for end-to-end video experience. This includes oversight of the video infrastructure team as well as the “player” team that supplies playback SDK to all our clients. This role drives an outstanding video streaming platform for our rapidly growing consumer-facing Crunchyroll subscription and advertising-supported video experiences. The services you would own in leading the Video infrastructure team include our dynamic packager, encoding platform, playback orchestration & manifest manipulation services for SSAI and multi-CDN. The player team is responsible for player SDK that integrates across our clients and supports a broad set of functionality around content protection DRM, interactive and stitched ads, QoS metrics, analytics, ABR and more.

A day in the life of our Director of Engineering, Video:

You will lead this full-stack group in supporting the principal product of video consumption on our service, alongside the Video product owner, code quality assurance, DevOps, and client teams that integrate the player SDK. Crunchyroll has an adventurous innovative roadmap around anime encoding, new AV1 codec adoption, multi-CDN platform, improving video start time & playback experience improvements. We need a strong leader to help us deliver on and help define these goals.

  • Provide technical vision for video APIs; working vertically integrated with the player team for quick iteration and alignment.
  • Collaborating with product ensuring key business needs are addressed while keeping tech debit in check.
  • Guide engineering teams towards test coverage as part of the definition of done mentality and practice.
  • Management of project risks and cross-team dependencies.
  • Management of team members, supporting their professional and career development.
  • Work alongside operations to build new services in coordination with our design patterns and support evaluations of new infrastructure approaches.
  • Occasional travel to Chisinau, Moldova.
  • Contribute to the engineering community by curating blog posts, open-source publishing of projects, and conference presentation opportunities.

About You:

  • 8+ years of management experience
  • BS or higher in Computer Science
  • 7+ years working on API’s and/or video IP technologies
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and networking
  • Understanding of VOD media streaming (DASH & HLS)
  • Understanding of client playback, data specs
  • Understanding of VAST, VMAP & SSAI across client and service concerns
  • Strong understanding of encoding, decoding principals across multiple codecs
  • Understanding of Subjective and Objective Quality Video quality evaluations
  • Strong familiarity with bitrate ladders ABR algorithms and data-driven decision framework for improving end-user QoE
  • Real-time scalable Video processing software in distributed systems architecture
  • Familiarity with code design principles, patterns, and best practices
  • Familiarity with Ad technologies and Dynamic Ad Insertion is a plus
  • Familiarity with Players and Playback cross OTT device, mobile, and web ecosystem
  • Familiarity with React Native, Go, and AWS technologies is a strong plus

Benefits: San Francisco Office

  • 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
  • Employer paid commuter benefit
  • On-site gym, showers, yoga, and wellness classes
  • Catered lunch and dinner 4 days per week
  • Skilled, passionate, and fun co-workers
  • Pet friendly environment - pet insurance and dog friendly office

Questions about Crunchyroll's hiring process? Please check out our FAQ

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About Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll, the world’s most popular anime brand, connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with 360-degree experiences. 

Fans have access to the largest collection of licensed anime through Crunchyroll, Anime Digital Network (in partnership with Citel, a subsidiary of Média-Participations), and Anime on Demand video streaming services, translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast. Crunchyroll's services also extend to licensing of theatrical, TV, home video, and consumer product rights. 

Fans engage further with events (including owned events Crunchyroll Expo, Anime Awards, Crunchyroll Movie Nights, KAZÉ Movie Nights), consumer products through eCommerce and retail partners (Crunchyroll, KAZÉ, AV Visionen), Crunchyroll Games, KAZÉ Games, and manga (KAZÉ Manga, Crunchyroll Manga app, Crunchyroll Manga Store).

Crunchyroll was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Chisinau, Lausanne, and Berlin (AV Visionen). VRV (U.S.) and Eye See Movies (Germany) are also Crunchyroll brands.

Our Company Values

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

  • Embrace Originality - We’ve taken different paths to get here -- but we’re in it together to win in anime 
  • Fuel Passion - Understanding fandom makes us better at what we do
  • Champion Change - We’re agile and see change as an opportunity to lead by example
  • Hustle Intentionally - As fans of our fans, we always want to do more -- but we’re deliberate in our path
  • Elevate Anime - We’re showing the world how special anime is

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Location

444 Bush St, San Francisco, CA 94108

An Insider's view of Crunchyroll

What’s the vibe like in the office?

Crunchyroll’s workplace environment helps create lifelong colleagues and has an unmatched culture of passion. Between socials, team-wide Japan trips, game nights, and professional conferences, I’ve met some of the most fun and talented people here.

Terry

GM of Games and Head of 360

How does the company support your career growth?

Even when opportunity doesn't knock, this team will build a door. The spirit, tenacity, & genuine, energizing joy this team has for our work, our mission, & our fans make it impossible not to grow. It's amazing to see our vision go from an imagined thought to something real that delights people around the world.

Mae

Associate Manager, Social Media

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I experienced tremendous growth at this company for the past half-decade. From my perspective, communication between teams and departments is only getting better.

Maria

Staff Security & Compliance Engineer

What are Crunchyroll Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Crunchyroll encourages and facilitates all forms of local community volunteering including Techbridge Girls in the Bay Area, Cat Town - Oakland, Baby2Baby, and A Sense of Home.
Partners with nonprofits
Crunchyroll has partnered with numerous US-based STEAM organizations including Ryman Arts & The Barcid Foundation, as well as The Inter College Animation Festival and Amusement Media Academy in Japan.
Open door policy
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
Summer hours
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Pay transparency
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Company-wide vacation
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Pet friendly
Relocation assistance
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

Free premium access to Crunchyroll & Funimation Digital Library.
Employee discount to eCommerce store.

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