Staff Software Engineer

Crunchyroll; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Hybrid work schedule

Professional development

Parental leave

Free premium Crunchyroll access

Job summary

Crunchyroll is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Infrastructure to lead the IDP platform, reporting to Platform Engineering. The role is based in Hyderabad, India, focusing on full-stack development, security, and scalable backend services to boost developer productivity across the org.

You will translate ambiguous requirements into a concrete roadmap, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive adoption of self-service workflows with robust operational tooling and on-call reliability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional experience in high-scale production environments bridging software engineering and infrastructure operations.
• Expert in TypeScript frontend and Go or Python backend for IDP development.
• Experience modeling data in relational and non-relational databases to support service catalogs.
• Strong focus on security, authentication/authorization (OIDC, RBAC) and privacy requirements (GDPR).
• Ability to translate business requirements into executable technical roadmaps and balance speed with sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Own year-over-year technical strategy and product roadmap for the Internal Developer Portal (IDP).
• Architect, build, and maintain full-stack features for IDP with modern frontend and scalable backend services.
• Design developer-centric UI workflows for service creation, dependency mapping, and operational dashboards.
• Implement measurement frameworks to track usage and platform health; iterate based on data-driven insights.
• Drive platform standard adoption across teams and ensure secure, self-service workflows.
• Participate in on-call rotations and reduce toil while coordinating across time zones.

Skills

TypeScript

Go

Python

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Security & scale

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

DynamoDB

OIDC

RBAC

GitHub Actions

Job description

About Crunchyroll

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.

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!

About The Role

In the role of Staff Software Engineer, you will report to the Platform Engineering Manager in Infrastructure. We are considering applicants for the location(s) of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. As a Staff Software Engineer within the Infrastructure Engineering organization, you will lead the product strategy and technical execution of our Internal Developer Portal (IDP), a critical platform designed to boost developer productivity and streamline software ownership at scale. You will own the full-stack development of our IDP, from architecting scalable backend services to designing intuitive UI components that simplify complex developer workflows and operational tasks. Partnering closely with Engineering Operations and cross-functional teams, you will translate ambiguous requirements into an executable roadmap, ensuring our platform evolves to meet the future needs of Crunchyroll Engineering. Success in this role will be defined by your ability to deliver world-class developer experiences and drive adoption of self-service workflows which are secure, robust and reliable.

Core Areas of Responsibility

• Own the year-over-year technical strategy and product roadmap for the Internal Developer Portal, driving initiatives that enhance developer productivity and service ownership.
• Architect, build, and maintain full-stack features within the IDP, leveraging modern web technologies for the frontend and scalable backend systems for data aggregation and integration.
• Lead the design of developer-centric UI workflows, simplifying complex processes such as service creation, dependency mapping, and operational dashboarding.
• Implement comprehensive measurement frameworks to track usage metrics and platform health, continuously iterating based on data-driven insights.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to drive adoption of platform standards, ensuring consistent access to tools and workflows across the organization.
• Participate in on-call rotations, owning the resolution of operational issues within your sphere of responsibility and actively reducing sources of toil.
• Coordinate effectively across time zones to align on project status, resolve dependencies, and ensure smooth hand-offs with engineering partners.

About You

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

• You possess 12+ years of professional experience in high-scale production environments, with a proven track record of bridging the gap between robust software engineering and infrastructure operations.
• You are a Full Stack Expert: You are highly proficient in TypeScript (for modern frontend/portal development) and backend languages like Go or Python. You are comfortable modeling complex relationships in both relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and non-relational (DynamoDB) databases to support service catalogs.
• You architect for security and scale: You possess deep expertise in infrastructure-adjacent domains, including complex authentication/authorization frameworks (OIDC, RBAC) and security protocols, and have successfully applied data sovereignty and privacy principles (e.g., GDPR) to platform architectures.
• You are a force multiplier: You don't just build; you guide. You have a history of establishing operational best practices and sharing knowledge across teams to elevate the engineering culture. You thrive in cross-functional environments, partnering with Product and Engineering Operations to ensure the platform directly supports business objectives.
• You demonstrate product-minded technical judgment: You excel at translating ambiguous business requirements into executable technical roadmaps, balancing the need for rapid iteration with long-term platform sustainability and developer experience. You make build-vs-buy and prioritization decisions that balance rapid iteration with long-term platform sustainability in a fast-evolving AI landscape.

Pluses

• You treat Platform as a Product: You have deep expertise in building Internal Developer Portals or platform experiences. You excel at translating complex SDLC workflows—such as CI/CD pipelines (GHA, CodeDeploy) and GitOps practices—into intuitive, self-service UI workflows that reduce developer friction.

About The Team

At Crunchyroll, our Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for the foundation on which our services are built. We directly influence our customer experience and the velocity of our engineers. Our team objectives are to ensure that our developers are enabled, our tools are self-service, that everything about our infrastructure is automated and consistent. Infrastructure engineering team members will engage directly with development teams on helping them become empowered and effective at delivering on our Infrastructure.

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

• Best-in class medical, dental, and vision private insurance healthcare coverage
• Access to counseling & mental health sessions 24/7 through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Free premium access to Crunchyroll
• Professional Development
• Company's Paid Parental Leave
• up to 26 weeks for birthing parents
• up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Hybrid Work Schedule
• Paid Time Off
• Flex Time Off
• 5 Yasumi Days
• Half-Day Fridays during the summer
• Winter Break

About Our Values

We 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

• Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
• Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
• Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
• Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.

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.

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.

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