VRChat Inc. · 2 weeks ago
Senior/Staff Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expVRChat Inc. is a company that provides a unique social VR platform, enabling users to create and connect in the metaverse. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to enhance the reliability, performance, and scalability of their production platform, focusing on infrastructure operations and incident response.
Telecom & CommunicationsSocial MediaAppsMessagingMetaverseSocialVirtual RealityVirtual World
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
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
Company
VRChat Inc.
VRChat, Inc. is one of the leading Virtual World platforms, hosting one of the largest active online communities of users and creators.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Engineering and Development
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*2025 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$95.2MKey Investors
Anthos CapitalMakers FundHTC
2021-06-28Series D· $80M
2019-09-05Series C· $10M
2017-09-21Series A· $4M
Leadership Team
Graham Gaylor
Co-Founder and CEO
Chandra Janakiraman
Chief Product Officer & Executive Vice President
Recent News
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