8 months ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain full-stack platform features using React and Node.js/MongoDB.
- Build moderation, anti-abuse, support, and safety systems with attention to privacy, cost, usability, and scalability.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, operations, legal, policy, and engineering partners to translate product direction into functional software.
- Contribute across the feature lifecycle from concept and prototyping through deployment, maintenance, and post-launch iteration.
- Maintain the reliability, stability, performance, and usability of critical moderation and safety services, including participation in on-call rotations.
- Participate in code reviews and help maintain architectural integrity, performance, reliability, and code quality.
Requirements
- Professional experience building and maintaining web applications, preferably in social or gaming contexts.
- Proficiency with the MERN stack and related technologies such as Redis.
- Experience building scalable web applications and APIs.
- Experience building usable, responsive React frontends using CSS or similar technologies.
- Experience with database design and optimization, state management, and third-party integrations.
- Familiarity with version control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with observability, on-call operations, incident response, and production reliability practices.
- Ability to design systems for adversarial users, abuse vectors, false-positive costs, and graceful degradation.
- Experience handling sensitive user data with appropriate privacy and access controls.
- Ability to collaborate with non-engineering partners and work effectively in a remote, cross-functional environment.
- Demonstrated interest in online communities, VR, or VRChat.
- Bonus: experience with Unity/C#, ML-adjacent systems, moderation or Trust and Safety teams, AWS or GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Benefits
- 100% remote work from anywhere with flexible working hours and core collaboration hours.
- Health benefits.
- 401(k) for US employees and Group RRSP for Canadian employees.
- Stock options.
- Generous paid holiday schedule.
- Unlimited or flexible vacation time.
- Paid parental leave benefits.
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About VRChat
VRChat builds a social virtual world platform where users explore and create immersive 3D avatars and worlds across VR headsets and desktop. The company monetizes a primarily free service through optional VRChat Plus subscriptions and creator-focused features, and supports a large ecosystem of user-made content (over 250,000 worlds). Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and runs on PC and Meta Quest via Steam and other storefronts.