VRChat

Engineer - Trust and Safety (Mid Level to Staff Level)

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7 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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VRChat

About VRChat

51-200 employees
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