Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineering: Define, measure, and continuously improve the reliability, availability, and performance of CDI platforms through SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Operational Excellence: Establish and drive best practices for incident management, root cause analysis, postmortems, and service ownership across engineering teams.

Observability & Monitoring: Build and evolve comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities to enable proactive issue detection and rapid resolution.

Automation: Identify operational inefficiencies and develop automation, self-service capabilities, and self-healing mechanisms to improve engineering productivity.

Platform Scalability: Design and optimize cloud-native infrastructure and services to support growing business demands while maintaining performance and cost efficiency.

Infrastructure Engineering: Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), platform standardization, and deployment automation to improve consistency, reliability, and operational agility.

Capacity Planning & Performance: Lead capacity planning and performance optimization initiatives to ensure platforms can scale predictably and efficiently.

Disaster Recovery & Resilience: Develop and regularly validate disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies to ensure platform resiliency.

Security Operations (SecOps): Partner with Crunchyroll's security team to integrate security controls, operational risk management, and security best practices into platform operations and engineering workflows.

Vulnerability Management: Own the triage and remediation of identified vulnerabilities across infrastructure, platform, container, and application security vulnerabilities through established Crunchyroll vulnerability management processes.

Penetration Testing & Security Remediation: Support penetration test scoping activities by providing technical context on CDI platforms. Own the triage, prioritization, and remediation of resulting findings to drive timely resolution and strengthen platform security posture.

Cloud & Kubernetes Security: Implement and maintain secure cloud, container, and Kubernetes environments following least-privilege, defense-in-depth, and Zero Trust principles.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with Engineering, Data, Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams to drive reliability, scalability, and security initiatives across CDI.

Mentorship & Engineering Excellence: Mentor engineers and champion a culture of operational excellence, reliability, ownership, continuous improvement, and security awareness.

We get excited about candidates like you, because...

12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines, with a proven track record of operating and scaling production-critical systems.

Deep expertise in Kubernetes and GCP, including the design, deployment, and operation of highly available, cloud-native platforms at scale.

Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience, preferably with Terraform, and a commitment to automation, standardization, and operational efficiency.

Solid foundation in Linux systems administration, networking, and distributed systems, with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across multiple layers of the technology stack.

Proficiency in one or more programming and scripting languages, such as Go, Python, Java, or Shell, with a focus on automation and platform engineering.

Hands-on experience with modern observability platforms and practices, including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or equivalent monitoring and telemetry solutions.

Demonstrated expertise in incident management, service reliability, capacity planning, performance optimization, and operational excellence, including the implementation of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Strong understanding of cloud and platform security, including container security, Kubernetes security, CI/CD security, vulnerability management, and secure infrastructure operations.

Good to have knowledge of security frameworks and best practices, including OWASP Top 10, Identity and Access Management (IAM), secrets management, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC), and security-by-design principles.

Excellent collaboration, communication, and technical leadership skills, with experience influencing architectural decisions, driving cross-functional initiatives, and mentoring engineers in reliability and operational best practices.

The Center for Data and Insights (CDI) is a service-oriented, horizontal organization uniquely positioned within the company to serve as the trusted, unbiased source of timely, data-driven insights for Crunchyroll. Our vision is to inspire, support, and guide our stakeholders to be data-aware and build the systems of intelligence to discover insights and act on them. We have built a highly functional organization that truly believes in being a responsive partner, with the utmost curiosity, unwavering accountability and the courage to lead with actions.

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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