vrchat - Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

Remote - Anywhere1mo ago

Remote Staff WW Cloud Computing Platform Engineer Terraform Linux MongoDB Elasticsearch Redis

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. • 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.

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.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company • 401K for US & RRSP for Canadian Employees • Generous paid holiday schedule • Unlimited/Flexible vacation time • 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.