Crunchyroll, LLC
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SeniorDirector,PlatformEngineering
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“Senior Director, Platform Engineering at Crunchyroll, LLC. Skills: Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE. Define platform strategy. Lead platform strategy”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure scalability; Ensure resilience; Ensure efficiency
Industry & Context.
In-office Tuesdays, In-office Wednesdays, In-office Thursdays
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
15+ years platform engineering experience, 7+ years leading managers, Experience leading large scale organizations, Experience defining platform strategy, Deep expertise distributed systems, Deep expertise infrastructure automation, Deep expertise modern platform architectures, Experience supporting large scale data platforms, Experience leading DevOps adoption, Experience leading SRE adoption, Experience partnering with Security teams, Experience partnering with Data teams, Experience operating platforms multi-cloud, Experience with AWS, Experience with GCP
Nice to Have
Experience with advanced processing workloads
What You'll Do.
Define platform strategy
Lead platform strategy
Build Infrastructure organizations
Scale Infrastructure organizations
Build DevOps organizations
Scale DevOps organizations
Build SRE organizations
Scale SRE organizations
Establish reliability practices
Drive automation first infrastructure
Drive infrastructure as code standards
Partner with Security
Embed policy enforcement
Design infrastructure
Enable platform capabilities
Define platform standards
Integrate data systems
Integrate model systems
Drive adoption automation practices
Drive adoption data driven practices
Establish platform operating model
Support high velocity engineering
Provide executive visibility
Align platform evolution
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross functional alignment; Partner with Security; Partner with Data teams
Communication Scope
Executive visibility
Full Job Description
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 Enterprise Technology Platform Engineering powers the infrastructure foundation that enables enterprise systems and distributed systems at scale. As Enterprise Technology continues to expand its platform footprint, this role will shape and lead our next generation platform, driving infrastructure strategy, DevOps maturity, SRE excellence, and scalable automation. You will define how the platform operates at scale, establish reliability standards, enable high velocity development, and ensure governance and operational discipline are built into the system by design. In the role of Senior Director, Platform Engineering, you will report to the VP, Enterprise Technology. We are considering applicants for the location of Dallas (in-office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays). You will: Define and lead platform strategy to support enterprise systems and distributed systems at scale. Build and scale Infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE organizations across multiple teams and leaders. Establish modern reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, observability, incident management, and error budgets. Drive automation first infrastructure, CI CD maturity, and infrastructure as code standards. Partner with Security to embed guardrails and policy enforcement into platform architecture. Design and scale infrastructure to support enterprise applications and data intensive workloads. Enable platform capabilities for data intensive and model driven workloads, including scalable compute, data pipel
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