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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.\nJoin our team, and help us shape the future of anime!\nAbout the role\nIn the role of Senior Software Engineer for Concepts Lab, you will report to the VP of the Concepts Lab.\nWe are considering applicants for the location of Los Angeles, CA (onsite).\nAs a Senior Software Engineer in Concepts Lab, you will take the lab’s validated experiments into production and embed directly with the teams who will run them long-term. For a defined period on each engagement, you will work inside a delivery team’s codebase and processes, building out the experiment to production quality, then hand off ownership, runbooks, and documentation so the team can carry it forward without you. The lab moves in short cycles, so you will decide when to prototype quickly and when to build something meant to last, and each engagement ends with a real handoff, not a demo.\nThe team is small, which makes your work visible: the systems you build become the foundation the receiving team adopts, and the standards you set for testing, documentation, and release safety become the standard they inherit. You will also share in the operational ownership of what the lab runs, on a rotation across the team, until handoff is complete. Success in your first year looks like experiments that graduated into long-term teams because the engineering under them held up, and because the handoff itself was clean.\nCore Areas of Responsibility\nBuild and help deliver experiences to our internal experimental environment. Own its reliability, deployment path, and the ability to stand a new experiment up quickly.\nDesign, 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.\nEmbed with delivery teams for the duration of each engagement, working within their systems and conventions to implement and build out the lab’s experiments.\nOwn production health during the engagement, including security patching, dependency upgrades, bug reduction, scaling work, runbooks, and documentation, shared on a rotation across the team.\nSet the technical bar for the lab’s software work, including design reviews, code quality, test coverage, observability, cost management, and security practices.\nLead 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.\nMentor the engineers and contractors who collaborate with us, contribute to hiring, and help shape how Crunchyroll Engineering builds software.\nAbout You\nWe get excited about candidates, like you, because...\nYou have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.\nYou have designed systems with multiple components interacting across API or service boundaries, and you anticipate the failure modes before they reach customers.\nYou write production-grade Python and/or TypeScript and have built software that other engineers chose to adopt because it made their work easier.\nYou have built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and integrated automated testing into them.\nYou use AI, including agentic coding tools and workflows, to accelerate complex delivery, refactors, and migrations while ensuring correctness and production safety.\nYou have carried operational ownership for services you built: runbooks, diagnostics, and incident follow-through.\nYou 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.\nNice to Have\nExperience in media, streaming, or gaming\nExperience working in an innovation lab, incubation environment, or R&D organization\nExperience with agentic coding tools and frameworks (Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable) used across the full development cycle\nAbout the Team\nThe Concepts Lab is Crunchyroll’s R&D and incubation group, focused on exploring new ideas, technologies, and experiences for anime fans. The team partners closely with engineering, product, and business leaders to test assumptions, build evidence, and transition validated concepts into delivery teams.\nOur work spans early discovery through beta execution, with an emphasis on learning quickly, reducing risk, and setting teams up for long-term success.\nWhy you will love working at Crunchyroll\nIn addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:\nReceive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.\nFlexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.\nGenerous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance\nHealth Saving Account HSA program\nHealth care and dependent care FSA\n401(k) plan, with employer match\nEmployer paid commuter benefit\nSupport program for new parents\nPet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!\n#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid \nThe Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.\nPay Transparency - Los Angeles, CA\n$183,400—$229,200 USD\nAbout our Values\nWe want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value\nCourage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.\n\nCuriosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.\n\nKaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.\nService. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.\n\nOur commitment to diversity and inclusion\nOur mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.\nWe 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.\nCrunchyroll, 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.\nQuestions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs\nPlease refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights: https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/22978/v1_0/docs/spe-jobs-privacy-policy-update-for-crpa-dec-21-22.pdf\nPlease beware of recent scams to online job seekers. 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