Senior Software Engineer

Los Angeles · USD 183,400-229,200 · 8+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.
Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

As a Senior Software Engineer for Concepts Lab at Crunchyroll, you will take the lab’s validated experiments into production and embed directly with the teams who will run them long-term.
You will decide when to prototype quickly and when to build something meant to last, with each engagement ending with a real handoff, runbooks, and documentation.

Build and help deliver experiences to our internal experimental environment, owning its reliability, deployment path, and the ability to stand a new experiment up quickly.
Design, build, and ship the software behind the lab’s experiments directly inside production environments, turning unclear asks into a crisp plan and a milestone path.
Embed with delivery teams for the duration of each engagement, working within their systems and conventions to implement and build out the lab’s experiments.
Own production health during the engagement, including security patching, dependency upgrades, bug reduction, scaling work, runbooks, and documentation, shared on a rotation across the team.
Set the technical bar for the lab’s software work, including design reviews, code quality, test coverage, observability, cost management, and security practices.
Lead the handoff of validated experiments to the long-term owning team, so what graduates out of the lab arrives documented, supportable, and fully owned by the receiving team.
Mentor the engineers and contractors who collaborate with us, contribute to hiring, and help shape how Crunchyroll Engineering builds software.

You have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
You have designed systems with multiple components interacting across API or service boundaries, and you anticipate the failure modes before they reach customers.
You write production-grade Python and/or TypeScript and have built software that other engineers chose to adopt because it made their work easier.
You have built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and integrated automated testing into them.
You use AI, including agentic coding tools and workflows, to accelerate complex delivery, refactors, and migrations while ensuring correctness and production safety.
You have carried operational ownership for services you built: runbooks, diagnostics, and incident follow-through.
You have experience working in early-stage, ambiguous environments where you define the problem as much as you solve it, and you know when to prototype quickly versus when to build for the long term.

Experience in media, streaming, or gaming
Experience working in an innovation lab, incubation environment, or R&D organization
Experience with agentic coding tools and frameworks (Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable) used across the full development cycle

Great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
Flexible time off policies
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