Principal Engineer, Data

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: Los Angeles

The intersection of media and technology is our sweet spot and we are fortunate to be headquartered at the epicenter of the creative economy - Los Angeles. This office houses many of our corporate functions and cross-functional teams tasked with creating exceptional experiences for our passionate communities.

About the Team

At Crunchyroll, our motto is simple - we champion the extraordinary by super-serving our super-fans. Say that 5 times fast! What better way to do so than by helping our millions of fans across the globe discover their next favorite show?

We are a humble team that takes on not-so-humble challenges. From supporting the reporting needs of a few partner teams way back in 2015, to building a widely used data platform that provides custom solutions to multiple downstream consumers today; our journey has been exciting, celebratory, and educational.

With our data platform, we now power reporting, personalization, analytics and other cross-functional integrations.

Our values as a team - we love open-source, encourage collaboration, value opinions and foster continuous learning.

The role

We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer, Data who is passionate about architecting data platforms and building out a high-performance data stack to join the Center for Data and Insights (CDI). This position will report to the Director, Analytics Engineering and will play a key part in developing Crunchyroll’s new data platform in Google Cloud Platform migrating pipelines from AWS. Working in an AWS and GCP ecosystem, this role will execute data projects, mentor the data engineers and will work with BI and Analytics leads to standardize technologies and processes across data collection, governance, storage, and orchestration/compute to ensure consistency and reliability of data and insights. The right person for this role will have a service-oriented view towards the growing data needs of the organization while future-proofing the tech stack in the background.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable data architecture to support near real time events, machine learning pipelines and analytics platforms using our customer data platform (Segment), purpose build pipelines and DBs to activate our systems of intelligence.
• Work closely with product managers to make application data available for product features for platform analytics and personalizations.
• Uphold, introduce, and refine data quality standards, KPI certification methods, and engineering best practices.
• Challenge existing data structures and compute processes.
• Constantly strive to improve engineering workflows and efficiency, and heavily utilize automation whenever applicable.
• Optimize data pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Partner with DevSecOps to optimize cloud infrastructure performance and scalability.
• Roll up your sleeves and be directly involved in solving challenging technical problems.
• Manage business-critical systems, set and facilitate departmental goals and contribute to core product strategy through data and software architecture excellence
• Deliver projects on time and within budget.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering and/ or software development.
• Experience with and understanding of event data collection tools like Snowplow, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Tealium, Segment and mParticle, etc.
• Full lifecycle experience implementing compute and orchestration tools like Databricks, Airflow, Talend etc.
• Experience with streaming OLAP engines like Druid, ClickHouse, etc.
• Experience with AWS services like EMR Spark, Redshift, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue, Athena, etc.
• Working knowledge of BI tools such as Tableau, Looker.
• Experience building multi-touch attribution platforms using integrations with walled gardens, and digital platforms.
• Experience building AI/ML personalization products.
• Experience with real-time data systems.
• Experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and Data Management Platforms (DMPs).
• Experience with HIPAA, PCI, or other high-security environments.
• Experience working with large data sets (Terabytes of data/ billions of records).
• Ability to work effectively and positively with others: You have excellent interpersonal skills. You’re a good listener. You place the success of the company ahead of any particular idea.
• Proven ability to work across a matrixed organization
• Highly articulate and an excellent communicator, with strong influencing skills and the ability to communicate well with peers and senior executives, locally and in different regions
• BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S..

Benefits: Los Angeles

• 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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