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Senior Software Engineer, EDGE Discovery
Crunchyroll LLC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA, United States
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 26 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Crunchyroll LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles13 certified filings for “Software Engineer II” (Software Developers) in CA: $168k–$210k, median $170k. Most were filed at wage level I (55%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 26 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 The EDGE Discovery team at Crunchyroll is focused on powering content discoverability experiences across the platform. We build and evolve the backend systems that enable anime fans worldwide to seamlessly discover, browse, search, and engage with Crunchyroll’s catalog through personalized, highly scalable experiences. Our systems power critical user journeys, including home page personalization, search, recommendations, metadata delivery, content ranking, and discovery APIs across all Crunchyroll platforms and devices. We operate at the intersection of backend platform engineering, large-scale distributed systems, and machine-learning enablement, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, relevance, and reliability. As a Backend Senior Engineer, you will help drive the technical direction and architecture of the services that power Crunchyroll’s discovery ecosystem. You will partner closely with engineering, product, data, and machine learning teams to build highly scalable backend platforms that improve content discoverability and user engagement while enabling teams to iterate quickly and safely. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex challenges in distributed systems, scaling high-traffic backend services, and building systems that directly impact how millions of users discover and experience content. Experience building backend systems for large-scale streaming, media, or other consumer content platforms is strongly preferred for this role. What You Will Be Doing • Design, develop, and evolve scalable backend systems that power search, recommendations, personalization, and content discovery experiences across Crunchyroll platforms • Lead architectural decisions for distributed systems with a focus on scalability, low latency, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence • Build and optimize APIs, metadata services, indexing pipelines, ranking systems, and recommendation infrastructure that support high-throughput user experiences • Partner closely with product, machine learning, data, and platform teams to improve discovery relevance, personalization quality, and experimentation capabilities • Drive backend platform improvements that enhance developer productivity, deployment safety, and service reliability • Define and implement engineering best practices around API design, data consistency, caching strategies, asynchronous processing, resiliency, and monitoring • Identify and proactively address performance bottlenecks, scaling challenges, and operational risks across discovery systems • Support experimentation and A/B testing frameworks that enable rapid iteration on discovery and recommendation experiences • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership through design reviews, architecture discussions, and cross-team collaboration • Influence long-term technical direction and build alignment across multiple engineering organizations • Champion engineering excellence through pragmatic improvements to tooling, automation, documentation, and operational workflows About You We are looking for a highly motivated engineer with deep backend engineering expertise and a strong track record of building scalable distributed systems. To be successful in this role, you should have: •