Principal Software Engineer

Crunchyroll is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the development, architecture, and evolution of our core digital media supply chain systems that power our global streaming platform.

Requirements

• Design and build scalable, automated digital media supply chain services across ingestion, transformation, QC, and delivery
• Architect cloud native microservices and event-driven workflows to support high-volume processing of video, audio, subtitle, artwork, and metadata assets
• Partner with the Principal Solutions Architect to translate architectural vision into high-quality, production-ready engineering solutions
• Collaborate with engineering and product leads to define technical requirements, roadmap priorities, and implementation strategies
• Improve observability, monitoring, logging, and operational automation throughout the pipeline
• Drive innovation initiatives, prototyping, and exploration of new workflow optimizations and next-generation supply chain capabilities
• Mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and raise engineering quality across the organization

Benefits

• Courage
• Curiosity
• Kaizen
• Service