Senior Software Engineer, EDGE Discovery
Core
Design, develop, and evolve scalable backend systems powering search, recommendations, personalization, and content discovery experiences for Crunchyroll's platform.
Role type
Senior IC backend platform engineer (distributed systems)
Builds
Discovery APIs, metadata services, ranking systems, and recommendation infrastructure for streaming platforms
Domain
Streaming media / Consumer content platforms
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed systems design, API architecture, cloud-native technologies, high-traffic service operations, search systems, recommendation platforms, caching strategies, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, AWS
Preferred skills
Large-scale video streaming experience, experimentation platforms, machine learning integration workflows, engineering productivity tooling
Technologies
AWS, microservices, search systems, recommendation platforms
Responsibilities
Lead architectural decisions for distributed systems, build and optimize APIs and metadata services, partner with ML and data teams to improve discovery relevance, drive backend platform improvements, mentor engineers, influence long-term technical direction, champion engineering excellence
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership
