About the job
About Crunchyroll
Founded by passionate fans, Crunchyroll is at the forefront of delivering the vibrant art and culture of anime to an enthusiastic global community. We cater to over 100 million anime and manga aficionados across 200+ countries and territories, enabling them to engage with the beloved stories and characters they adore. Our offerings span across various mediums including streaming video, theatrical releases, games, merchandise, events, and more—all powered by the rich anime content that unites us.
Join our dedicated team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of anime entertainment!
About the Team
The Platform Development organization is the backbone of Crunchyroll's core access and security platform. This sophisticated framework encompasses authentication, authorization, notifications, and AI runtimes, empowering other teams to construct fan-centric features atop a solid, compliant, and versatile foundation.
Our mission is to ensure reliable and secure access for fans across a multitude of devices and partners, seamlessly integrating access services with data and compliance orchestration. We strive to evolve notifications and AI inference into reusable platform capabilities that hasten the launch of products and partnerships. Our collaborative efforts span across product, data, security, client engineering, video, and service monetization teams to deliver exceptional experiences to millions of anime enthusiasts worldwide.
About the Role
As the Senior Manager of Platform Engineering, reporting to the VP of Platform Engineering, you will lead a dynamic team of software engineers responsible for building and operating the essential services that govern fan access at Crunchyroll. This includes overseeing login, identity management, authorization, partner authentication, compliance-centered account flows, notifications, and AI runtimes.
Your leadership will be instrumental in defining the team's strategy and execution, driving the transformation of legacy authentication and Identity and Access Management (IAM) into safer, more efficient platform services. You will work on stabilizing and evolving our notification systems toward a unified orchestration layer and collaborate closely with our data team to establish the groundwork for a shared AI inference platform. Drawing on your engineering and leadership expertise, you will elevate our standards for architecture, reliability, security, and delivery while nurturing a high-performing, inclusive team that embodies Crunchyroll's values.
We welcome applications from candidates within the San Francisco Bay Area.

