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Software Engineer III, Playback Services
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 In the role of Video Playback Services Software Engineer III, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Playback Services. As a Software Engineer III on the Playback Services team, you will help accelerate critical initiatives aimed at reducing playback latency, bolstering streaming security, and refining the customer experience through better content availability and publishing workflows. A primary focus for this role will be advancing Content Protection / Security initiatives. In this role, you will: • Design, build, and improve backend services and APIs that support secure, reliable video playback. • Take ownership of projects that improve content protection and security services, playback latency, streaming security, content publishing, and avails testing. • Deliver well-scoped projects from design through deployment, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability. • Collaborate with product, QA, and adjacent engineering teams to ship high-quality features and operational improvements. • Strengthen the team’s ability to support and evolve content protection and security-related systems by contributing in a specialized area that is critical to future roadmap execution. • Participate in on-call and incident response, helping expand coverage and improve response effectiveness over time. • Debug and resolve moderate to complex production issues related to video delivery, entitlement, configuration, service health, or content protection / security flows. • Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, testing practices, and technical documentation to improve overall engineering quality. • Identify technical risks and dependency gaps early, then work with the right stakeholders to drive them to closure. • Help increase delivery velocity by contributing pragmatic solutions, dependable execution, and durable service improvements. About You You're a great fit for this role if you: • Have 5+ years of professional software development experience building backend services in production environments. • Have strong experience with backend programming languages such as TypeScript, Go, or similar. • Have hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP and are comfortable working with distributed systems in production. • Understand video streaming fundamentals, APIs, backend service architecture, and the operational realities of delivering playback at scale. • Can independently own well-scoped projects from design to deployment and make sound technical decisions with the right stakeholder input. • Are comfortable working in systems related to content protection, entitlement, secure content access, or adjacent playback security concerns. • Can debug moderate to complex service issues and improve systems through testing, documentation, observability, and maintainable design. • Communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across functions, and proactively surface risks, trade-offs, and dependency concerns. • Are motivated by improving delivery velocity, strengthening operational coverage, and helping build redundancy in critical technical domains. About the Team The Video Platform teams build the systems that power Crunchyroll’s most important user experience: watching video. From ingestion to playb