VRChat Inc.

Engineer

• 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.

Engineer II – Recommendations

• Work within a full-stack team to develop, implement, and maintain new features for the VRChat platform and operational team.
• Focus on enhancing safety systems, building the UI/UX and backend systems for support, moderation, and safety operations, with consideration for cost and user privacy.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers across the stack to translate product and design vision into functional code through informed tradeoffs and accurate estimates.
• Contribute to all stages of the feature lifecycle, from initial concept and prototyping to deployment and post-launch iteration and maintenance.
• Ensure the usability, stability, reliability, and performance of critical moderation and safety services, participating in on-call rotations as needed.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain a high bar for code quality, architectural integrity, performance, and reliability while spreading knowledge across the team.

Engineer II – Trust and Safety

• Work within a full stack team to develop, implement, and maintain new features within the VRChat client using Unity/C#.
• Focus on enhancing social systems, building the UI/UX for groups, events, and other community interaction features.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers across the stack to translate product and design vision into functional code through informed tradeoffs and accurate estimates.
• Contribute to all stages of the feature lifecycle, from initial concept and prototyping to deployment and post-launch iteration and maintenance.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks and bugs to ensure a smooth and responsive user experience across various platforms.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain a high bar for code quality, architectural integrity, performance, and reliability while spreading knowledge across the team.

Engineer II – Social Experience

DevOps Engineer

• Lead a small, thriving team of DevOps Engineers
• Foster direct communication with several other closely-related teams such as IT, Server Engineers, Client Security, User Support, and Community Team
• Design, plan and implementation of IT infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment to support the evolution of our platform
• Hands-on day to day operation and maintenance of our infrastructure to keep our services running with high reliability, security and cost effectiveness
• Incident management and root cause analysis, sometimes during off hours
• Ensure the implementation and maintenance of robust security controls and practices
• Automate and improve our monitoring systems and tools
• Coordination and communication within the team and with internal stakeholders
• Work with external vendors to resolve issues and coordinate projects

Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Data Analyst

• Collect, clean, and analyze large datasets to uncover trends, patterns, and actionable insights.
• Perform exploratory data analysis to uncover trends, patterns, and anomalies that impact platform trust and safety.
• Collaborate with Safety Ops, product, and engineering teams to support investigations of flagged content or behavior.
• Support continuous process improvements in data collection, analysis, and reporting workflows.
• Help with policy enforcement operations; partner on audits and enforcement efficiency related projects.

Engineer II – Recommendations

Engineer II – Trust and Safety

Engineer II – Social Experience

Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Trust and Safety Data Analyst Intern