Software Engineer III, Playback Services

<div class="content-intro"><h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About Crunchyroll</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>In the role of Video Playback Services Software Engineer III, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Playback Services.</p> <p>As a Software Engineer III on the Playback Services team, you will help accelerate critical initiatives aimed at reducing playback latency, bolstering streaming security, and refining the customer experience through better content availability and publishing workflows. A primary focus for this role will be advancing Content Protection / Security initiatives.</p> <p>In this role, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and improve backend services and APIs that support secure, reliable video playback.</li> <li>Take ownership of projects that improve content protection and security services, playback latency, streaming security, content publishing, and avails testing.</li> <li>Deliver well-scoped projects from design through deployment, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.</li> <li>Collaborate with product, QA, and adjacent engineering teams to ship high-quality features and operational improvements.</li> <li>Strengthen the team’s ability to support and evolve content protection and security-related systems by contributing in a specialized area that is critical to future roadmap execution.</li> <li>Participate in on-call and incident response, helping expand coverage and improve response effectiveness over time.</li> <li>Debug and resolve moderate to complex production issues related to video delivery, entitlement, configuration, service health, or content protection / security flows.</li> <li>Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, testing practices, and technical documentation to improve overall engineering quality.</li> <li>Identify technical risks and dependency gaps early, then work with the right stakeholders to drive them to closure.</li> <li>Help increase delivery velocity by contributing pragmatic solutions, dependable execution, and durable service improvements.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You</strong></h2> <p>You're a great fit for this role if you:</p> <ul> <li>Have 5+ yea