Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Core
Operate, improve, and maintain the reliability and operational excellence of data infrastructure for Crunchyroll's global anime streaming platform.
Role type
Senior Database Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Builds
High-availability, scalable, and automated database infrastructure supporting 100M+ users across 200+ countries.
Domain
Streaming media / Cloud Infrastructure / Database Operations
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Database production support and operations, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) architecture, AWS cloud platform expertise, CI/CD pipeline implementation, monitoring and observability tooling, SQL and NoSQL database management, capacity planning, data governance, complex SQL tuning, incident response playbook creation.
Preferred skills
Experience with MariaDB to Aurora/DynamoDB migrations, large-scale cluster management, native AWS database services (RDS/Aurora).
Technologies
Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, AWS (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB), Datadog, CloudWatch, DevOps Guru, Database Performance Insights.
Responsibilities
Drive 24x7 database production support operations and incident remediation; Architect and maintain reusable database-specific IaC components; Standardize mission-critical database configurations (backups, failover, timeouts); Participate in on-call rotation to eliminate Single Points of Failure; Manage large-scale data infrastructures including cluster management and major version upgrades.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC