Ellation, Inc.
Senior Data Engineer - Platform Engineering
Ellation, Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Who We AreWe're a cast of characters working to shine a spotlight on anime.
Crunchyroll
is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our
About Us
pages for more information about our collection of brands.
About the Team
The Data Services team is focused on building robust, scalable, and efficient data services, pipelines, lakes, tools, libraries, and software components that drive best practices and empower service teams to succeed. We design and implement data services, pipelines and data lakes for operational analysis, ensuring they are production-ready with automation and standardized access controls.
We lead and evangelize the principle of 100% automation. Additionally, we establish best practices, provide training, and document data architectures to ensure our systems are reliable, future-ready, and capable of continuous evolution and process improvement across the organization.
About The RoleCrunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world. The Data Engineering team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing data services and pipelines, ensuring that our data services support the needs of the business. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable operational data analysis, enhance eventing systems, and develop tools that empower our data and services teams. Your expertise will also be critical in driving 100% automation, best practices, creating scalable architectures, and optimizing our data environments. This role is eligible for fully remote and will report into our Director of Data Engineering - Platform Engineering.
About You
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
8+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on building and optimizing data pipelines, data architecture, and eventing systems.
Extensive experience with AWS cloud platform and their data-related services.
Proficiency in automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation).
Proficiency in data lake and pipeline tools and frameworks (e.g., Databricks, Apache Kafka/Kinesis, AWS Glue).
Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Java).
Strong understanding of SQL (e.g. Redshift, Snowflake, RDS) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB) and experience in enabling analytical queries on these platforms.
Experience with search optimization, including schema design and query tuning.
Experience in building CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks (e.g. dbt), and best practices in data engineering.
Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues.
Ability to independently own and execute projects while effectively collaborating with the team to influence and shape the vision of the data engineering organization.
Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.
Why you will love working at CrunchyrollNot only will you get to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also...
Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
Enjoy flexible PTO and time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
Appreciate the generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance options for you and your family.
Take advantage of our health saving account HSA program plus health care and dependent care FSA programs.
Love that we offer an employer match on our 401(k) plan.
Receive employer paid commuter benefit (for eligible employees).
Appreciate the generous support program for new parents.
Obtain pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Remote
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Crunchyroll
is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our
About Us
pages for more information about our collection of brands.
About the Team
The Data Services team is focused on building robust, scalable, and efficient data services, pipelines, lakes, tools, libraries, and software components that drive best practices and empower service teams to succeed. We design and implement data services, pipelines and data lakes for operational analysis, ensuring they are production-ready with automation and standardized access controls.
We lead and evangelize the principle of 100% automation. Additionally, we establish best practices, provide training, and document data architectures to ensure our systems are reliable, future-ready, and capable of continuous evolution and process improvement across the organization.
About The RoleCrunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world. The Data Engineering team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing data services and pipelines, ensuring that our data services support the needs of the business. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable operational data analysis, enhance eventing systems, and develop tools that empower our data and services teams. Your expertise will also be critical in driving 100% automation, best practices, creating scalable architectures, and optimizing our data environments. This role is eligible for fully remote and will report into our Director of Data Engineering - Platform Engineering.
About You
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
8+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on building and optimizing data pipelines, data architecture, and eventing systems.
Extensive experience with AWS cloud platform and their data-related services.
Proficiency in automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation).
Proficiency in data lake and pipeline tools and frameworks (e.g., Databricks, Apache Kafka/Kinesis, AWS Glue).
Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Java).
Strong understanding of SQL (e.g. Redshift, Snowflake, RDS) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB) and experience in enabling analytical queries on these platforms.
Experience with search optimization, including schema design and query tuning.
Experience in building CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks (e.g. dbt), and best practices in data engineering.
Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues.
Ability to independently own and execute projects while effectively collaborating with the team to influence and shape the vision of the data engineering organization.
Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.
Why you will love working at CrunchyrollNot only will you get to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also...
Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
Enjoy flexible PTO and time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
Appreciate the generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance options for you and your family.
Take advantage of our health saving account HSA program plus health care and dependent care FSA programs.
Love that we offer an employer match on our 401(k) plan.
Receive employer paid commuter benefit (for eligible employees).
Appreciate the generous support program for new parents.
Obtain pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Remote
#J-18808-Ljbffr