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Senior/Staff Platform Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior/Staff Platform Engineer
VRChat
• 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.
Job 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.
Benefits
- Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company
- Health Benefits
- 401K for US & RRSP for Canadian Employees
- Stock Options
- Generous paid holiday schedule
- Unlimited/Flexible vacation time
- Paid parental leave benefits
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