Senior Software Engineer, Device Reliability

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

Crunchyroll is growing fast, creating new opportunities and technical challenges as we bring the magic of anime to millions of fans around the world. The Reliability Engineering team sits at the heart of that mission, ensuring every Crunchyroll experience on devices is seamless, stable, and worthy of our passionate audience.

As part of this dynamic team, you'll play a key role in shaping the quality of the Crunchyroll app across a landscape of devices. You'll leverage cutting-edge automation, data analysis, and observability tools to deliver reliability at massive scale and push the limits of what's possible in multi-platform testing. We're looking for a creative, highly motivated engineer who thrives on complex challenges and is excited to help define the future of device reliability at Crunchyroll.

You will:

• Tackle a uniquely complex device ecosystem. Crunchyroll reaches fans on a large range of TVs, consoles, and partner platforms—each with its own architecture and challenges. You'll design automation that delivers a consistently exceptional experience across this diverse landscape.
• Engineer for scale and reliability. Build robust, intelligent automated test systems and tools that power fast, reliable releases for millions of users around the world.
• Collaborate across disciplines. Partner with engineers, product teams, and external partners to integrate, validate, and optimize the Crunchyroll experience on every device.
• Shape the future of quality. Influence technical direction and champion a culture of excellence in code health, test strategy, and automation—leading by example, not by process.
• Empower the community. Share insights, tools, and frameworks that elevate the entire engineering ecosystem and help fans everywhere enjoy anime the way it's meant to be experienced.

In the role of Senior Software Engineer, Device Reliability, you will report to the Director of Partnerships Reliability Engineering. We are considering applicants for the location of San Francisco or Dallas.

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

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or 8+ years of practical experience
• You have experience building automated tests for web applications leveraging HTML5
• You have experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS
• You have database skills, both relational and NoSQL
• You are curious, creative, and have a continuous improvement mindset.
• You have experience managing, and automating test cases, test harnesses, and expertise in using the latest technologies and tools will be essential
• You have hands-on experience developing automation for consumer electronics or connected devices across varied hardware and operating systems
• You have experience monitoring in-field device reliability
• You have empathy for both our teams and external partners

The Fan Experience Engineering team at Crunchyroll plays a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding our users' experiences. We collaborate extensively with a diverse network of device,