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About the Role

The Principal Engineer, Engineering Practices is a senior technical leader responsible for strengthening engineering excellence across Crunchyroll through technical strategy, architectural guidance, engineering best practices, and technical mentorship. This role partners closely with Engineering Leadership and Principal and Staff Engineers to shape the company's long-term technical strategy and enable teams to make high-quality architectural decisions independently.

Responsibilities

Drive Technical Strategy: Partner with leadership to translate business priorities into a long-term technical strategy.
Identify strategic technology investments that improve scalability, reliability, security, and developer productivity.
Help align technical initiatives across engineering domains while respecting domain ownership.
Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and engineering practices that improve engineering effectiveness.
Influence Architecture Through Guidance: Develop reusable architectural patterns, reference implementations, and engineering guidance.
Help teams evaluate architectural tradeoffs and make informed technical decisions.
Encourage consistency in service architecture through collaboration, education, and proven practices.
Facilitate technical design discussions for high-impact initiatives when appropriate.
Build Engineering Capability: Coach and mentor Principal, Staff, Senior, and emerging technical leaders.
Foster architectural thinking and strong technical decision-making within engineering teams.
Support career growth for senior technical contributors through mentorship and technical coaching.
Lead architecture workshops, technical learning sessions, and engineering forums.
Help cultivate the next generation of technical leaders across the organization.
Drive Organizational Learning: Capture institutional knowledge and transform it into reusable engineering guidance.
Develop technical documentation, architecture patterns, playbooks, and reference materials.
Identify recurring engineering challenges and partner with teams to create scalable solutions.
Improve onboarding and knowledge transfer for engineers through documentation and education.
Promote a culture of continuous learning and technical curiosity throughout Engineering.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in Software Engineering
Strong Leadership skills: raise the bar, lead by example, and mentor others
Highly-collaborative: influence through credibility over authority, working with all levels across the organization
Technical expertise across the full stack, able to provide insights and guidance to front-end, back-end or infrastructure teams
Experience designing, implementing and operating services at large scale
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Hands-on engineer that codes, knows how to validate designs, investigate difficult technical problems, and contribute directly to critical initiatives
Able to distinguish and balance between long-term architectural direction and pragmatic delivery
Skilled at defining architecture principles, patterns, and best practices
Can translate business strategy and product requirements into clear technical direction
Excel at strong architectural judgment and able to evaluate tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, performance, cost, complexity, and time to market

Skills

Technical Strategy
Architectural Guidance
Engineering Best Practices
Technical Mentorship
Full Stack Expertise
Service Design
Service Implementation
Service Operation
Large Scale Systems
Technical Communication
Architecture Principles
Architecture Patterns
Engineering Velocity
Technical Direction
Architectural Judgment
Scalability
Reliability
Security
Performance
Cost Management
Complexity Management
Time to Market Analysis

Location

San Francisco, California

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal Engineer
15+ years

Salary/Compensations

$260,400—$325,500 USD

Benefits

Compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential
Flexible time off policies
Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
Health Saving Account HSA program
Health care and dependent care FSA
401(k) plan, with employer match
Employer paid commuter benefit
Support program for new parents
Pet insurance
Pet friendly offices

About the Company

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.
Crunchyroll is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll.
Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.