As a Senior Engineer at VRChat, you'll design and build scalable backend services and data pipelines to enhance user experience and content discovery.
Join the VRChat Team!
We’re hiring an engineer who’s interested in designing and building the backend tech that powers the VRChat experience. VRChat’s mission is to enrich the world through immersive social connection, and we’re doing this by developing a live platform that’s constantly updated and evolving, so you’ll see your work have an immediate impact on our massive global community of users.
As a Senior Engineer you’ll be joining a full-stack team of engineers as an expert in cloud application development. Help us build the services and experiences that empower our users to build meaningful connections in the VRChat universe. If you’re passionate about leveraging data to enhance the user experience through recommendations and content discovery, then this role could be the perfect fit.
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 enable users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device.
VRChat has raised around $100M to date with the support of our investors, which include: 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!
Responsibilities
- Work within a full-stack team of Engineers to develop scalable backend services and data pipelines essential for data-driven features that help people find great content, groups, and events in VRChat
- Architect, own, design, implement, and maintain systems involving REST and WebSocket APIs, data modeling, caching systems, queueing systems, cloud orchestration, content discovery, social graphs, and more
- Work with cross-functional collaborators to ensure technical excellence in service of meaningful user experiences
- Be available to occasionally jump into action to solve an outage, even at inconvenient times
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Five or more years of experience iteratively developing and designing scalable and modular backends and infrastructure for SaaS products, online games, or similar systems
- Experience with recommendation systems
- Experience building scalable new software systems from scratch and integrating them within an existing, evolving architecture
- Experience with using cloud providers at scale, such as AWS or Google Cloud
- Able to work in a variety of languages and technologies, specifically backend JavaScript, Mongo, Redis
- Experience with data warehousing, ETL processes, Elasticsearch, and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) for processing and analyzing large datasets
- Proficiency in database optimization for analytical queries and real-time data access to power recommendation systems
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
Bonus Points
- Demonstrated interest in online communities, VR, or VRChat (as a user or creator). Knowing how our platform and community works will be helpful for this role.
- Experience with social networks and social data or user-generated content
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts and libraries for recommendation algorithms
- Experience working on consumer products, e-commerce, or two-sided marketplaces.
Benefits
- Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company offering flexible working hours in combination with core hours supporting real-time collaboration
- Health Benefits401K for US & Group RRSP for Canadian Employees
- Stock Options
- Generous paid holiday schedule
- Unlimited/flexible vacation time
- Paid parental leave benefits
VRChat is an equal-opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. VRChat fosters a diverse, creative, and collaborative environment where anyone can contribute to any of the ongoing projects or direction of the roadmap at any time. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an impact on a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!All job offers are subject to satisfactory referencing and background checks.
Top Skills
AWS
Cloud Application Development
GCP
Hadoop
JavaScript
Kafka
Mongodb
Redis
Rest Apis
Spark
Websocket Apis
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