Manager, Data Engineering

About Crunchyroll

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!

About the role

We are hiring a Manager, Data Engineering to play a crucial role in our mission to establish a world-class Data Engineering team within the Center for Data and Insights (CDI) and reshape the future of our data-centric aspirations as we aim for new heights. You will help grow our data engineering capabilities in the AWS and GCP ecosystems by collaborating with the data team and implementing several projects across data architecture, data lake infrastructure, and job orchestration. You will ensure the consistency and reliability of data and insights, aligning with our objective of promoting well-informed decision-making.

You will demonstrate an empathetic and service-oriented approach, promoting a successful data and insights culture while enhancing and safeguarding our data infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to build our data engineering platforms globally. If you are an experienced professional with experience in impactful data engineering projects and are committed to driving transformative changes, we encourage you to explore this role.

• Be the go-to expert for data engineering best practices, architecture, and latest technologies.
• Provide strategic guidance on data platform modernization, scalability, and governance.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring the team adopts modern solutions.
• Lead technical training sessions, upskilling engineers on advanced data engineering concepts.
• Foster a culture of learning, encouraging innovation and experimentation.
• Be the trusted advisor to interdepartmental teams, ensuring clear agreement between business and technical goals.
• Represent the data engineering function in executive discussions, advocating for scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering teams to promote data-driven decision-making.
• Establish data governance policies, ensuring compliance and security.
• Design and increase scalable data pipelines, ensuring efficiency and reliability.
• Troubleshoot complex data challenges, providing expert-level solutions.
• Guide the team in evaluating new tools and technologies, balancing innovation with stability.

In the role of Manager, Data Engineering, you will report to the Senior Director, Data Engineering.

We are considering applicants for the locations of San Francisco or Los Angeles.

About You

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

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering and software development
• 3+ years of people management experience
• Solid knowledge of data architecture, pipelines, and governance
• Experience optimizing data systems
• Experience with BI tools (i.e. Tableau or Superset)
• Experience managing large-scale data sets, handling Terabytes of data and billions of records (across structured and unstructured datasets
• Experience implementing compute and orchestration tools like Databricks and Airflow
• Experience with AWS services (i.e. EMR Spark, Redshift, and S3) or GCP services (i.e. BigQuery, Google Storage, Looker or Google Analytics)
• Experience in event data collection tools such as Snowplow, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Tealium, or mParticle.
• Experience translating complex technical concepts into actionable insights
• Willingness to explore the latest technologies.

About the Team

Center for Data and Insights (CDI) is a service oriented horizontal organization that is uniquely positioned within the company to be the trusted and unbiased source of data-based insights for Crunchyroll. Our vision is to inspire, support and guide our partners to be data-aware and build the systems of intelligence to discover insights and act on them. We have built a functional organization that believes in being a responsive partner, with the utmost curiosity, unwavering accountability and the courage to lead with actions.

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

• Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
• Flexible time of