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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, its 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, its powered by the anime content we all love.

Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager, Apple Infrastructure to lead the development and maintenance of the shared systems, tools, and pipelines that power our iOS, tvOS, and visionOS applications. This role is pivotal in driving the technical vision, roadmap, and operational excellence of our Apple platform infrastructure. You will lead an accomplished group of engineers focused on scalability, reliability, performance, and developer efficiency enabling our feature teams to deliver best-in-class experiences to millions of users.

As the Engineering Manager, Apple Infrastructure, you will mentor, inspire, and grow the team while ensuring we deliver robust, high-quality infrastructure that supports business goals and technical standards. You will have ownership over platform-wide systems, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and alerting solutions, and developer tooling. You will be a key contributor to strategic technical decisions and will partner closely with engineering leadership to shape the future of our Apple ecosystem.

This is a hybrid position and we are considering applicants for the location(s) of Los Angeles, CA or San Francisco, CA. You will report to the Director of Engineering, Apple.

Responsibilities

• Run the day-to-day operations of the infrastructure engineering team and manage agile ceremonies such as grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to adopt and maintain best practices, platform architecture standards, and scalable infrastructure solutions, fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Define and execute the roadmap for shared Apple platform infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business objectives and the needs of dependent feature teams.
• Work closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, prioritize improvements, and communicate project progress and operational updates.
• Manage project timelines, resource allocation, and budgeting to ensure delivery of infrastructure initiatives.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and performance monitoring solutions to optimize development velocity and product stability.
• Drive operational excellence by managing system incidents, performing root cause analyses, and implementing long-term preventative measures.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and lead performance optimization efforts across the Apple platform stack.
• Conduct regular one-to-one meetings with team members to provide feedback, support career development, and maintain high team morale and productivity.
• Lead hiring and onboarding efforts to attract top infrastructure talent and expand the team's capabilities.

Key Qualifications

• Proven experience managing infrastructure or platform engineering teams, preferably in the Apple ecosystem (iOS, tvOS, visionOS).
• Strong technical background in CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitrise, CircleCI) and automation best practices.
• Hands-on experience with build systems, dependency management, and artifact distribution for Apple platforms (e.g., Xcode Cloud, Fastlane, xcframeworks).
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus) and alerting best practices.
• Deep understanding of performance profiling, crash reporting, and optimization strategies for Apple applications.
• Strong incident management skills, including root cause analysis and postmortem facilitation.
• A track record of mentoring and developing engineering talent.
• Exceptional communication skills for collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with modern agile practices and a track record of delivering infrastructure initiatives on time and within budget.

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 off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
• Health Saving Account HSA program
• Health care and dependent care FSA
• 401(k) plan, with employer match
• Employer paid commuter benefit
• Support program for new parents
• Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!

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 Crunchyrolls 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 - San Francisco, CA

$200,000$250,000 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.

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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.

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  Associate

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  Full-time

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  Engineering and Information Technology

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