Principal Software Engineer, Video, Frontend

About Crunchyroll

WE HELP EVERYONE BELONG. IT’S OUR PURPOSE.

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

As a Principal Software Engineer on our video player team, you will lead the design, development, and optimization of our next-generation video player library. You will be an advocate for pushing our core values of excellence in operations, engineering, and delivery. You will establish relationships across Engineering, Program Management, Product, and QA to help establish our technology roadmap to meet our primary goals. You will join an international team of 100+ client engineers and leaders that have helped establish Crunchyroll as the leader in its space.

In the role of Principal Engineer, you will report to the Software Engineer Director, Video Players.

We are considering applicants for the location(s) of US-Remote

About You

• You are passionate about technology and the streaming space and have 15+ years industry experience.
• You have the experience to sustain our core values of excellence in operations, delivery, and engineering.
• You have been a developer, technical leader, and an architect of front end customer facing applications.
• You have developed solutions used by millions of users.
• You can demonstrate experience working with your product and program peers to help establish technology roadmaps.
• You can demonstrate experience leading technology leaders and driving important engineering programs.
• You apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
• You have expertise in multimedia frameworks and protocols, such as MPEG-DASH and HLS.
• You have hands-on experience developing in multiple code stacks - mobile, web, backend, db, infrastructure.

About the Team

The Video Player team is a growing team of international engineers and technology leaders passionate about providing a world class streaming experience for our millions of Anime fans across the world. We provide and maintain solutions on all major device platforms. Your contributions on this team are front and center to our millions of …