VRChat

Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

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4 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
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Responsibilities

  • Operate and improve production infrastructure with emphasis 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 remediation efforts.
  • Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using infrastructure-as-code and scripting tools.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve service reliability, deployment quality, and operational readiness.
  • Develop scalable and measurable solutions to infrastructure, reliability, and operational problems.
  • Participate in backend code reviews, pull requests, and occasional feature or tooling work.

Requirements

  • 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 Terraform or OpenTofu.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, automation, observability, and incident management.
  • Operational knowledge of MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Redis.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred: AWS experience, including core infrastructure services, cost optimization, and multi-account architecture.
  • Preferred: Kubernetes experience, including networking, service discovery, ingress, and workload reliability.
  • Preferred: Cilium or other Kubernetes networking and security solution experience.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale storage systems, CDNs, caching, distributed systems, or real-time platforms.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work from anywhere.
  • Health benefits.
  • 401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees.
  • Stock options.
  • Generous paid holiday schedule.
  • Unlimited or flexible vacation time.
  • Paid parental leave benefits.
  • Employment is subject to satisfactory reference and background checks.

Tech Stack

AWSElasticsearchKubernetesLinuxMongoDBRedisTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About VRChat

51-200 employees
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