Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VRChat Inc. is a company that provides a unique social VR platform, enabling users to create and connect in the metaverse. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to enhance the reliability, performance, and scalability of their production platform, focusing on infrastructure operations and incident response.
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-up remediation
- Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using modern IaC and scripting tools
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve service reliability, deployment quality, and operational readiness
- Turn ambiguous infrastructure, reliability, and operational problems into clear, scalable, and measurable solutions
- Engage with backend codebases through code reviews, pull requests, and occasional feature or tooling work to build shared context with product engineering teams
Skills
- 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 tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu
- Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, automation, observability, and incident management
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Operational knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Redis
- 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
Benefits
- Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company
- Health Benefits
- 401K for US & RRSP for Canadian Employees
- Stock Options
- Generous paid holiday schedule
- Unlimited/Flexible vacation time
- Paid parental leave benefits
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