Senior Engineer - Trust and Safety at VRChat

Join the VRChat Team! VRChat offers a groundbreaking platform providing an endless collection of social VR experiences, empowering its robust community with creation tools. With over 250,000 worlds and growing, VRChat's vision is to enable users to bring their imaginations to life and shape the metaverse from anywhere in the world, on any device. VRChat has successfully raised $100M with the support of investors such as Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC. Our accomplished team includes individuals from leading companies like Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga, and TikTok. Come and be a part of our mission!

Job Overview

We are seeking a full-stack web developer to join our Trust and Safety team. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in developing and refining critical safety, moderation, and anti-abuse systems to ensure secure user connections and experiences. This position involves utilizing Node.js, React, and MongoDB to build new features, enhance existing infrastructure, and integrate with third-party tools, all to maintain a secure and trustworthy environment for our global user base.

What You'll Do

• 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, while considering 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 high standards for code quality, architectural integrity, performance, and reliability, while also fostering knowledge sharing across the team.

Qualifications

• 2-5+ years of professional experience in 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, with the ability to work independently and effectively in a remote, cross-functional team environment.

Bonus Points

• Understanding of 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).

Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company offering flexible working hours in combination with core hours supporting real-time collaboration.
• Health Benefits.
• 401K for US & Group RRSP for Canadian Employees.
• Stock Options.
• Generous paid holiday schedule.
• Unlimited/flexible vacation time.
• Paid parental leave benefits.

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.