Staff SRE: Cloud-Native Reliability & SecOps Leader

Crunchyroll, LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 211,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary plus performance bonus

Flexible time off

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan with employer match

Commuter benefit

Job summary

Crunchyroll, LLC is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the Center for Data & Insights in the US. You will help design and operate resilient cloud-native data platforms powering Crunchyroll's consumer experiences, collaborating with Engineering, Data, Infrastructure and Security teams.

You will drive modern SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets), automate operations, and strengthen SecOps by improving cloud/Kubernetes security, disaster recovery, and incident management across

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related fields.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and GCP for large-scale cloud-native platforms.
• Strong IaC experience, preferably Terraform, with a focus on automation.
• Solid Linux systems administration, networking, and distributed systems knowledge.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Shell.
• Hands-on experience with modern observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
• Experience with incident management, reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs), and capacity planning.
• Knowledge of cloud and platform security, container security, and secure operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and measure reliability, availability, and performance using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Establish and drive best practices for incident management and postmortems.
• Build and evolve monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems for proactive issue detection.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and develop automation and self-service capabilities.
• Design and optimize cloud-native infrastructure for scalable performance and cost efficiency.
• Drive IaC, standardization, and deployment automation to improve reliability.
• Lead capacity planning and performance optimization to scale platforms.
• Develop disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.

Skills

Kubernetes

GCP

Terraform

Linux

Go

Python

Java

Shell

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

SLIs/SLOs

Incident Mgmt

Tools

Docker

Job description

Crunchyroll, LLC is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the Center for Data & Insights in the US. You will help design and operate resilient cloud-native data platforms powering Crunchyroll's consumer experiences, collaborating with Engineering, Data, Infrastructure and Security teams.

You will drive modern SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets), automate operations, and strengthen SecOps by improving cloud/Kubernetes security, disaster recovery, and incident management across