Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

VRChat Inc.

Join VRChat as a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability of production infrastructure. Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance service reliability and operational readiness.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudElasticSearchLinuxMongoDBRedisTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

SREDevOpsPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure Engineeringhigh-availability production systemsLinuxnetworkingautomationobservabilityincident management

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsability to work with technical stakeholdersability to work with non-technical stakeholders