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VRChat Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

🎮 Gaming

🥽 AR/VR

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $80M Series D on 2021-06

Gaming • AR/VR • Social Impact

VRChat Inc. is a company that offers a social virtual reality platform where users can create, share, and explore thousands of community-created virtual worlds. Users can engage in a wide variety of interactive experiences including playing games, creating custom avatars, and participating in community events. The platform supports full-body avatars with advanced features like lip sync and eye tracking, and includes functionalities like 3-D spatialized audio for immersive interaction. It is designed to help users express themselves, connect with others globally, and build lasting friendships in a virtual environment. VRChat does not require VR equipment, making its experiences accessible to a broader audience across different devices such as Steam and Meta Quest. The platform is especially community-driven, powered by users who contribute to its ever-growing universe through their creative content using the Unity SDK.

📋 Description

• Work within a full-stack team of engineers to develop, maintain, and optimize scalable data pipelines, backend services, and APIs for data-driven features like recommendations, content discovery, groups, and events in VRChat. • Design and implement data models and schemas that support both analytical needs and real-time recommendation systems. • Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to ensure the correct data is captured, processed, and available to power meaningful user experiences. • Implement and maintain data processing jobs using big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Kafka) to handle large-scale datasets. • Contribute to the evolution of our technical and product capabilities, helping to progress from simple heuristics to more sophisticated, data-backed personalization for content and experiences. • Participate in the design and implementation of backend systems including REST and websocket APIs, caching systems, queueing systems, and cloud orchestration. • Be available to occasionally jump into action to solve an outage.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on data engineering and building scalable backend systems for SaaS products or online platforms. • Proven experience building and optimizing production-grade data pipelines (ETL/ELT).Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with database optimization for both analytical queries and high-throughput real-time access. • Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop/Beam, or Kafka. • Experience with cloud providers at scale, such as AWS or Google Cloud. • Able to work in a variety of languages and technologies, such as Python, JavaScript/Node.js, Mongo, and Redis. • Experience with Elasticsearch, data warehousing, and machine learning (ML) systems. • An agile, collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills, capable of working effectively in a remote, cross-functional team environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company offering flexible working hours in combination with core hours supporting real-time collaboration • Health Benefits • 401K for US & Group RRSP for Canadian Employees • Stock Options • Generous paid holiday schedule • Unlimited/flexible vacation time • Paid parental leave benefits