VRChat Inc.Remote
Senior Engineer - Trust and Safety
United States of America
Full Time
1 day ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
MERN stackMongoDBExpressReactNode.jsRedisRESTful API developmentWeb front-end developmentCSSDatabase designDatabase optimizationState managementThird-party integrationsVersion control systemsCI/CD pipelinesAgile mindsetC#CAWSGCPKubernetesDockerRESTfulVersion ControlAgileCI/CDPrototypingCommunication
About this role
VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind platform providing social VR experiences and is seeking a Senior Engineer for their Trust and Safety team. This role involves developing and refining safety, moderation, and anti-abuse systems to ensure safe user connections and experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Work within a full-stack team to develop, implement, and maintain new features for the VRChat platform and operational team
- Focus on enhancing safety systems, building the UI/UX and backend systems for support, moderation, and safety operations, with consideration for cost and user privacy
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers across the stack to translate product and design vision into functional code through informed tradeoffs and accurate estimates
- Contribute to all stages of the feature lifecycle, from initial concept and prototyping to deployment and post-launch iteration and maintenance
- Ensure the usability, stability, reliability, and performance of critical moderation and safety services, participating in on-call rotations as needed
- Participate in code reviews to maintain a high bar for code quality, architectural integrity, performance, and reliability while spreading knowledge across the team
Requirements:
- 2-5+ years of professional experience developing, building and maintaining web applications
- Proficiency in the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) and related technologies like Redis
- Experience building scalable, RESTful APIs
- Experience building usable, responsive web front ends using React and CSS, or other similar technologies
- Experience with database design and optimization, state management, and third-party integrations
- Familiarity with version control systems and CI/CD pipelines
- An agile, collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills, capable of working independently and effectively in a remote, cross-functional team environment
- Understanding of a game client/server architecture and data flow (Unity/C# a plus), especially as it relates to telemetry or abuse vectors
- Experience working in, or directly with, moderation or Trust and Safety teams
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP) and containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated interest in online communities, VR, or VRChat (as a user or creator)