Crunchyroll is hiring a Security Director

Crunchyroll is hiring a Security Director, a principal-level role reporting to the SVP of Engineering. You will be a hands-on leader connecting security strategy to execution, turning goals into secure-by-default systems and practices that teams actually use. Your mission is to protect our fans and platform without sacrificing delivery velocity.

What You'll Do

• Drive adoption of required controls across engineering by establishing clear engineering playbooks, paved paths, and secure-by-default platform capabilities.
• Ensure threat modeling and security architecture considerations are built into how engineering designs and ships using approved patterns and reference architectures as the default starting point.
• When requirements are infeasible or costly, drive early escalation and propose alternatives (sequencing, compensating controls, platform changes) to maintain momentum without accepting unmanaged risk.
• Identify cross-domain architectural risks and drive resolution across teams, bringing the right stakeholders together and escalating when tradeoffs require executive judgment.
• Run the operating rhythm across engineering for vulnerability intake, triage, ownership assignment, remediation planning, verification, and escalation.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate enterprise security tooling into CI/CD and production environments, and ensure engineering can reliably produce evidence of compliance in a low-friction, automated way.
• Improve security incident preparedness in engineering (runbooks, exercises, detection hooks) and ensure post-incident actions translate into durable engineering improvements.
• Serve as the primary engineering counterpart to Global Security, translating enterprise policies, controls, tooling, and compliance requirements into adoptable engineering practices and roadmaps.

What We're Looking For

• Principal-level technical leadership with a proven track record of leading cross-team security initiatives through influence, clarity, and shipping real systems.
• Strong application security fundamentals: authn/authz, session security, secure API design, data protection, threat modeling, and secure SDLC practices.
• Practical risk manager, with the ability to prioritize, measure tradeoffs, and create guardrails that teams actually adopt.
• Cloud & platform security experience: IAM concepts, secrets management, key management, service-to-service auth patterns, and logging/detection fundamentals.
• DevSecOps and automation mindset and have experience integrating security checks into CI/CD with minimal developer friction.
• Depth in vulnerability management, knowing how to triage, develop remediation strategies, verify fixes, all while partnering with teams to close the loop quickly.
• Excellent communication skills including concise, executive-ready writing and strong technical coaching abilities for engineers.

Nice to Have

• Experience with streaming/media security and DRM ecosystems and output protection concepts.
• Experience with mobile and device ecosystems (iOS/Android/TV devices), including secure storage patterns and platform attestation.
• Familiarity with reverse engineering tools and client hardening/anti-tamper approaches.
• Exposure to privacy/security compliance partnerships (GRC) and working with legal/product on policy requirements.

Team & Environment

You will report directly to the SVP of Engineering.

Benefits & Compensation

• Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
• Flexible time off policies.
• 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!
• Compensation Range: $236,000—$295,000 USD

Work Mode

This is a hybrid position based in Los Angeles, California.

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.