Senior Engineer - Trust and Safety

Requirements

• A pragmatic, full-stack engineer who treats safety and privacy as first-class design constraints. Comfortable across the MERN stack, comfortable with adversarial thinking, and comfortable being on-call for systems that matter.
• All job offers are subject to satisfactory referencing and background checks.
• Professional experience developing, building and maintaining web applications, preferably in social or gaming contexts.
• 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.
• Experience with operational excellence: observability, on-call, incident response, and reliability practices for production systems.
• Comfort designing systems with adversarial users in mind: anticipating abuse vectors, false-positive costs, and graceful degradation.
• Experience handling sensitive user data with appropriate privacy and access controls.
• Comfort collaborating with non-engineering partners (operations, legal, policy) on product trade-offs.
• An agile, collaborative, product mindset and excellent communication skills, capable of working effectively in a remote, cross-functional team environment.
• Demonstrated interest in online communities, VR, or VRChat (as a user or creator).

Additional Information

Join the VRChat Team! 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 worlds and growing, VRChat's vision is to allow users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device. VRChat has raised $100M to date with the support of investors, Makers Fund, Anthos Capital and HTC. We have a great team which includes people from: Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga and TikTok. Come and join the mission! Job Overview We're looking for a full-stack engineer to join our Trust and Safety Tech team. We hire engineers to solve real user problems, not implement specs. You will be instrumental in discovering, developing, and refining the internal and external functionality that ensure users can find belonging within a safe, engaging environment. Your work will help ensure VRChat scales safely, protecting growth and trust by reducing harm with low friction. This role involves working within Node.js/Mongo backend and React frontend to deliver low-friction, scalable moderation, anti-abuse, and safety systems.

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