Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

Build and maintain VRChat's core platform infrastructure for social VR experiences

As a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer at VRChat, you will build and maintain the core platform infrastructure that powers social VR experiences for over 250,000 users. Your work will focus on ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance of the systems that enable community-driven creation and interaction in VR. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to evolve the platform in support of VRChat's mission to give creatio...

Why This Role?

Work on a first-of-its-kind social VR platform with over 250,000 active users

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable backend systems for VRChat's social VR platform
Optimize platform performance and reliability to support growing user concurrency
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define platform evolution
Ensure infrastructure stability for user-generated content and real-time interactions
Contribute to architectural decisions that enable long-term platform growth

Requirements

Experience building large-scale distributed systems
Proficiency in backend infrastructure and cloud platforms
Strong background in performance optimization and system reliability
Experience with real-time or interactive applications
Ability to work effectively in a remote, collaborative environment

Required Skills

programmingsoftware engineeringvr developmentPlatform engineeringDistributed systemsBackend developmentPerformance optimizationCloud infrastructureSystem architecture

Keywords

Senior Platform EngineerVRChat remote jobSocial VR infrastructureDistributed systems engineerBackend platform roleRemote engineering worldwide

View Original Description from Workew

Original description from Workew

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…

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Company

VRChat

Source

Workew

Salary

Job Type

full time

Location

Remote · Open worldwide

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