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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.

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:
Crunchyroll is looking for a Principal Solution Architect to lead the design and technical strategy of our digital media supply chain systems powering a global streaming platform. In this senior individual contributor role, you will lead end-to-end solution architecture across content ingestion, localization, packaging, metadata, and distribution. You will work closely with Business Transformation, Engineering, and Content Operations to define scalable, integrated workflows and drive solutions across the entire ecosystem.
You will play a key role in shaping the technology roadmap, evaluating third-party tools, guiding platform decisions, and ensuring long-term architectural integrity across systems. This is a hybrid position based in our Dallas, TX or Los Angeles office. You will report to the VP, Enterprise Technology.
What You'll Do:

• Drive the architecture of scalable, secure, and automated digital media supply chain workflows
• Lead the definition and technical direction of system designs for MAM, Rights Management, metadata management, order management, localization, and delivery integrations
• Collaborate with engineering and product leads to align on roadmap, priorities, and implementation plans
• Document technical solutions, workflows, and system interactions
• Evaluate new tools and vendors; lead technical due diligence for third-party platforms and RFP
• Ensure seamless integration, future scalability, and performance of content delivery systems.
  

Pluses:

• Strong understanding of the Video landscape and industry standards in software development, video management, security, and infrastructure
• Experience with tools like AWS Media Services, Google Cloud Platform
• You have experience in video transcoding, packaging, and encoding processes.
  

What We're Looking For:

• 10+ years of experience designing media workflow solutions across content ingestion, processing, localization, and delivery.
• Proven experience designing media workflows for OTT or DTC streaming platforms
• Deep understanding of MAM, metadata standards, video formats, and localization pipelines
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture (AWS/GCP), APIs, and systems integration
• Ability to lead solution engineering efforts across multiple teams without direct reporting lines
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Hardworking problem-solver who thrives in finding solutions to complex technical challenges
• Excellent interpersonal skills and leadership abilities, with the ability to build successful relationships across all levels of the organization
  

The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
Pay Transparency - Los Angeles, CA
$174,000—$217,000 USD
About Our Values
We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value

• Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
• Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
• Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
• Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
  

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.
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.
Crunchyroll, LLC 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.
Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights: Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Entertainment Providers

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