Senior Backend Engineer – Discovery Platform

Crunchyroll; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Crunchyroll is seeking a Backend Senior Engineer to help power its discovery ecosystem. You will design scalable backend systems for search, recommendations, and content discovery, partnering with product, data, and ML teams to improve relevance.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years building large-scale backend systems, strong API and cloud-native skills (AWS), and a track record mentoring engineers across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and building large-scale backend systems.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and API design.
• Production-grade cloud-native architectures with AWS.
• Experience with video streaming or media platforms is a plus.
• Ability to lead and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evolve scalable backend systems powering search, recommendations, and content discovery.
• Lead architectural decisions for distributed systems focusing on scalability, low latency, resiliency, and observability.
• Build and optimize APIs, metadata services, indexing pipelines, ranking, and recommendation infrastructure.
• Partner with product, ML, data, and platform teams to improve discovery relevance and experimentation capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices in tooling, automation, and deployment safety.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

API architecture

Cloud-native technologies

AWS

Mentoring / leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

PostgreSQL/NoSQL

Job description

Crunchyroll is seeking a Backend Senior Engineer to help power its discovery ecosystem. You will design scalable backend systems for search, recommendations, and content discovery, partnering with product, data, and ML teams to improve relevance.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years building large-scale backend systems, strong API and cloud-native skills (AWS), and a track record mentoring engineers across teams.