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
Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SSDET) is responsible for building and scaling test frameworks and automation systems that ensure the reliability, accuracy, and performance of complex business critical workflows. This role focuses on validating end-to-end systems that process large volumes of data across multi-step pipelines, ensuring outputs are correct, consistent, and auditable. You will define testing strategies, automation patterns, and quality standards that enable systems to operate reliably at scale.
Core Areas of Responsibility
- Define the overall testing strategy for complex, multi-step workflows across distributed systems.
- Design and build scalable automation frameworks for validating end-to-end system behavior and data integrity.
- Establish patterns for validating data transformations, system integrations, and workflow correctness at scale.
- Define approaches for testing failure modes, retries, and resiliency across distributed workflows.
- Lead the implementation of data validation, lineage verification, and traceability mechanisms.
- Define quality standards and integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines.
- Drive improvements in test coverage, system reliability, and defect detection across teams.
- Influence engineering design to ensure systems are testable, observable, and resilient by design.
About You
We get excited about candidates, like you, because...
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, SDET, or quality engineering roles.
- Strong programming experience in Python with experience building test frameworks or automation systems.
- Experience designing testing strategies for distributed systems or complex workflows.
- Experience validating data pipelines, system integrations, and multi-step processes.
- Experience with CI/CD systems and integrating automated validation into pipelines.
- Understanding of system reliability, fault tolerance, and performance testing.
- Experience working with cloud platforms and containerized systems.
- Strong system design and problem solving skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Familiarity with auditability, traceability, and validation requirements in production systems.
- Experience testing systems with s