Senior Engineer

VRChat Inc.

full-time

Posted on: 9/17/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Work within a full-stack team of Engineers to develop scalable backend services and data pipelines essential for data-driven features that help people find great content, groups, and events in VRChat
Architect, own, design, implement, and maintain systems involving REST and WebSocket APIs, data modeling, caching systems, queueing systems, cloud orchestration, content discovery, social graphs, and more
Work with cross-functional collaborators to ensure technical excellence in service of meaningful user experiences
Be available to occasionally jump into action to solve an outage, even at inconvenient times

Five or more years of experience iteratively developing and designing scalable and modular backends and infrastructure for SaaS products, online games, or similar systems
Experience with recommendation systems
Experience building scalable new software systems from scratch and integrating them within an existing, evolving architecture
Experience with using cloud providers at scale, such as AWS or Google Cloud
Able to work in a variety of languages and technologies, specifically backend JavaScript, Mongo, Redis
Experience with data warehousing, ETL processes, and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) for processing and analyzing large datasets
Proficiency in database optimization for analytical queries and real-time data access to power recommendation systems
Strong collaboration and communication skills