Who you are

• We’re hiring an engineer who’s interested in designing and building the backend tech that powers the VRChat experience
• 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
• 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, 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
• 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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Work remotely: Work from anywhere! They use collaboration software to stay organized and VRChat for meetings and hanging out.
• Health and wellbeing: Medical, Dental and Vision plans for those in the United States, and extended health plans in British Columbia, Canada.
• Fun: Monthly team dinners, get-togethers and once a year, they travel somewhere fun for a few days to hang out, catch up, brainstorm and have fun.
• Tools: You’ll be provided a powerful PC, high-end VR hardware, and any software you need to make you effective in your role.
• Vacations: Flexible vacation schedules that are encouraged. Most United States and Canadian holidays are observed by everyone on the team.
• Swag: Great VRChat and Developer Team Swag such as hoodies, coffee mugs, t-shirts, sun glasses and even custom 3D printed goodies.