Senior Engineer - Trust and Safety

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. Who You Are 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. 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, 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.

Contribute to a culture embracing collaborative, iterative, outcome-focused, product-discovery-driven delivery.

Qualifications Bonus Points

Understanding of a game client/server architecture and data flow, especially as it relates to telemetry or abuse vectors.

Experience with Unity/C# (for in-game safety UI surfaces like reporting flows). 

Experience with ML-adjacent systems (model serving, evaluation, human-in-the-loop pipelines). 

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.)

Benefits