Engineering Manager, DevOps
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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.
About The Team
The Crunchyroll DevOps Team is a group of hardworking and forward-thinking cloud engineers with a passion for automating the platform to enable our software developers to efficiently deploy their applications. Our customers are the software engineers and other internal business units who work around us every day and need our support. We live to make things easier for them to rapidly develop, test, and deploy new features and applications, while we supporting a DevOps culture, share our domain expertise. Together we strive to bring an extraordinary experience to our community of fans.
About You:
- 5-7 years proven experience implementing or supporting large-scale web/video products/platforms.
- 1+ years leading engineers in the technology industry and working across timezones and with different cultures.
- Maintain an outstanding level of documentation, including principles, standards, practices and project plans.
- Deep knowledge of IaC patterns and practices, and related automation tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Spinnaker, CircleCI, etc.; built automation and tools using languages like Python, Go, Java, or Ruby.
- Proactive collaborator and can lead cross-team initiatives with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with automating long-term solutions to problems rather than applying a quick fix.
- Extensive knowledge improving platform observability and implementing optimizations to monitoring and alerting tools.
- Experience measuring and modeling cost and performance metrics of cloud services and establishing a vision that’s backed by data.
Pluses:
- Experience building and maintaining a production container orchestration.
- Strong software engineering background.
- Worked in an operations center and/or assisted teams with incident response.
A day in the life of our Engineering Manager, DevOps:
We lead a 24/7 global operation. Our team works in shifts, and we split projects and on-call duties across timezones regularly. We believe in working hard, having a work life balance, and striving to maintain it. You may find yourself doing any of the following on any given day:
- Working with the team to break down large, deeply technical initiatives into smaller tasks and collaborating with your team’s program manager to forecast deliveries over multiple sprints
- Analyzing platform and development trends within the company to derive ways to optimize our collective DevOps efforts for the team’s roadmap
- Mentoring team members on the latest development practices or cloud technologies to facilitate personal growth
- Conduct 1:1s to check in with team members to learn of any internal team struggles, identify career aspirations, or more as you see necessary
- Assist other development teams in effective incident containment or root-cause analysis post-mortem
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
- 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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