Senior Manager, Platform Development

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 Team

The Platform Development organization powers Crunchyroll's core access and security platform. This platform includes authentication and authorization, notifications, and AI runtimes. It enables other teams to safely build fan-facing features on top of a stable, compliant, and leverageable foundation.

The team's mission is to provide reliable, secure fan access across devices and partners, integrate access services with data and compliance orchestration, and evolve notifications and AI inference into reusable platform capabilities that accelerate product and partner launches. We collaborate with product, data, security, client engineering, video, and service monetization teams to deliver seamless and secure experiences for millions of anime fans worldwide.

About the Role

As the Senior Manager, Platform Development, you will report to the VP of Platform Engineering. You will lead a team of software engineers building and operating the core services that govern how fans access Crunchyroll. These services include login, identity, authorization, partner authentication, compliance-aware account flows, notifications, and AI runtimes.

You will own the team's strategy and execution, guiding the decomposition of legacy authentication and IAM into clearer, safer platform services, stabilizing and evolving our notification stack toward a unified orchestration layer, and working with our data team to layer the foundations of a shared AI inference platform. You will lean on your engineering and leadership experience to raise the bar on architecture, reliability, security, and delivery, while hiring and developing a high-performing, inclusive team aligned to Crunchyroll's values.

We are considering applicants based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Core Responsibilities

Team leadership and people management

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, providing clear expectations, feedback, and career development aligned with Crunchyroll's engineering manager career ladder.
• Hire and onboard diverse talent, build an inclusive team culture, and set a high bar for engineering quality, ownership, and collaboration.

Domain ownership: access, notifications, and AI runtimes

• Own the roadmap and execution for Platform Development's core domains: authentication and identity, authorization, notificatio