Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

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
• Engage with backend codebases through code reviews and occasional tooling work to build shared context

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 tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu
• Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, automation, observability, and incident management
• Operational knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Redis
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

• 100% remote work environment
• Health Benefits
• 401K (US) or RRSP (Canada)
• Stock Options
• Generous paid holiday schedule
• Unlimited/Flexible vacation time
• Paid parental leave benefits

About the Company

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. VRChat’s vision is to allow users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device.