VRChat
Engineering
Senior/StaffPlatformEngineer
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“Senior/Staff Platform Engineer at VRChat. Skills: Platform Engineering, Reliability, Infrastructure. Operate and improve production infrastructure. Define, measure, and improve reliability”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve reliability, performance, and scalability of our production platform; Improve service reliability, deployment quality, and operational readiness
Industry & Context.
Turn ambiguous infrastructure, reliability, and operational problems into clear, scalable, and measurable solutions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, experience operating high-availability production systems, Experience with cloud or hybrid cloud environments, knowledge of Linux, networking, automation, observability, and incident management, communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders, Operational knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Redis
Nice to Have
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
What You'll Do.
Operate and improve production infrastructure
and improve reliability
Build and improve monitoring
Participate in incident management
Automate infrastructure and operational workflows
Work closely with engineering teams
Turn ambiguous problems into solutions
Engage with backend codebases
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with the IT and Engineering teams; Work closely with backend codebases; Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders; Work closely with engineering teams to improve service reliability
Communication Scope
communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Full Job Description
## Description Join the VRChat Team! VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind, game-changing platform that provides an endless collection of social VR experiences and gives the power of creation to its robust community. With over 250,000 worlds and growing, VRChat’s vision is to allow users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device. VRChat has raised $100M to date with the support of investors Makers Fund, Anthos Capital and HTC. We have a great team which includes people from: Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga and TikTok. Come and join the mission! ## Job Overview We are looking for a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to help improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of our production platform. This role focuses on operating reliable infrastructure, improving observability, driving incident response, and using data-driven reliability practices such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and DORA metrics. Database experience with MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Redis is a must. Help us run and secure our platform that allows our users to connect and create their part of the VRChat universe. If you’re interested in keeping the machinery behind the scenes humming and finely tuned, then this role could be right up your alley. The role reports to the Head of Platform at VRChat. This Engineer will work closely with the IT and Engineering teams, as well as the heads of various functions to plan and deploy infrastructure. ## Duties & 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
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