Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

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🕒 May 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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VRChat Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company • Health Benefits • 401K for US & RRSP for Canadian Employees • Stock Options • Generous paid holiday schedule • Unlimited/Flexible vacation time • Paid parental leave benefits