Senior/Staff Platform Engineer, VRChat
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Virtual world platform
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Virtual world platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build VRChat into one of the most successful community-driven social VR platforms in existence.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong experience operating high-availability production systems
- Experience with cloud or hybrid cloud environments and tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu
- Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, automation, observability, and incident management
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Operational knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Redis
Desirable
- Experience with AWS, including core infrastructure services, cost optimization, and multi-account architecture
- Experience with Kubernetes, including networking, service discovery, ingress, and workload reliability
- Experience with Cilium or other Kubernetes networking/security solutions
- Experience supporting large-scale storage systems
- Experience with CDNs, caching, distributed systems, or real-time platforms
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to help improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of our production platform
- This role focuses on operating reliable infrastructure, improving observability, driving incident response, and using data-driven reliability practices such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and DORA metrics
- Database experience with MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Redis is a must
- Help us run and secure our platform that allows our users to connect and create their part of the VRChat universe
- If you’re interested in keeping the machinery behind the scenes humming and finely tuned, then this role could be right up your alley
- The role reports to the Head of Platform at VRChat
- This Engineer will work closely with the IT and Engineering teams, as well as the heads of various functions to plan and deploy infrastructure
- Operate and improve production infrastructure with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency
- Define, measure, and improve reliability using SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and DORA metrics
- Build and improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, and incident response processes
- Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, postmortems, and follow-up remediation
- Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using modern IaC and scripting tools
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve service reliability, deployment quality, and operational readiness
- Turn ambiguous infrastructure, reliability, and operational problems into clear, scalable, and measurable solutions
- Engage with backend codebases through code reviews, pull requests, and occasional feature or tooling work to build shared context with product engineering teams
Our take
Virtual Reality is one of the technologies with the highest projected potential for growth. VRChat offers a free-to-play metaverse platform where users gather as avatars in virtual spaces to socialize and hang out, just as one would in real life.
Whilst competition certainly does exist, VRChat has positioned itself as a leading VR socializing-based product. It taps into a modern desire to form connections in digital spaces, with some users meeting their real-life partners in their virtual avatar form.
In 2024, the company announced a 30% workforce reduction, addressing overhiring during its 2021 boom. Despite these layoffs, the company remains focused on long-term growth and capital efficiency, positioning itself for continued success as VR becomes a key part of social connection.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2021
$80m
SERIES D
Sep 2019
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $95.2m
Company benefits
- Work remotely: Work from anywhere! They use collaboration software to stay organized and VRChat for meetings and hanging out
- Health and wellbeing: Medical, Dental and Vision plans for those in the United States, and extended health plans in British Columbia, Canada
- Fun: Monthly team dinners, get-togethers and once a year, they travel somewhere fun for a few days to hang out, catch up, brainstorm and have fun
- Tools: You’ll be provided a powerful PC, high-end VR hardware, and any software you need to make you effective in your role
- Vacations: Flexible vacation schedules that are encouraged. Most United States and Canadian holidays are observed by everyone on the team
- Swag: Great VRChat and Developer Team Swag such as hoodies, coffee mugs, t-shirts, sun glasses and even custom 3D printed goodies
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Graham Gaylor
(CEO & Co-founder)Interned at SmartVault, RSM Design, Equivalent DATA, and Seismic Exchange, before spending time at ChaiONE as an iOS Developer at at Zynga as a Software Engineer.
Jesse Joudrey
(CTO & Co-founder)Owner and CTO at Jespionage Entertainment. Began as a Software Engineer for Electronic Arts Canada before co-founding and serving as CTO for A.C.R.O.N.Y.M Games Inc.
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