资深工程师 - 推荐系统
Staff Engineer - Recommendations
加入VRChat团队！
VRChat提供了一个前所未有的、具有变革性的平台，为用户带来无限的社交VR体验，并赋予其强大的社区创作能力。目前已有超过250,000个世界并持续增长，VRChat的愿景是让用户将想象力变为现实，并帮助在全球任何设备上塑造元宇宙。截至目前，VRChat已获得1亿美元融资，投资方包括Makers Fund、Anthos Capital和HTC。
我们拥有一支优秀的团队，成员来自：Netflix、Twitter、Meta、Microsoft、Roblox、Google、Amazon、Unity、Spotify、Discord、Uber、eBay、Robinhood、Twitch、Zynga和TikTok。快来加入我们的使命吧！
职位概览
我们正在寻找一名数据/机器学习工程师加入我们的社交体验团队。你将负责开发和优化数据驱动的推荐系统，帮助用户连接、互动、发现内容和社区。该职位涉及使用AWS、Python/FastAPI、Node.js和Snowflake构建、训练和部署个性化系统。你将负责处理和转换平台生成的大规模数据，以创造有意义的用户体验。如果你对数据工程充满热情，并希望通过数据提升内容发现，这个职位可能是完美的选择。
VRChat是一家平等机会雇主，欢迎所有背景的申请人。VRChat营造了一个多元、创意和协作的环境，任何人都可以在任何时候为正在进行的项目或路线图方向做出贡献。如果你是一个有激情的团队成员，希望在一支动态团队中产生影响，我们很期待收到你的简历！
所有职位offer均以参考和背景调查满意为前提。
你将负责
- 在全栈工程师团队中工作，开发、维护和优化可扩展的数据管道、后端服务和API，用于数据驱动的功能，如推荐、内容发现、群组和活动。
- 设计和实现支持分析需求和实时推荐系统的数据模型和模式。
- 与数据科学家、产品经理和其他工程师合作，确保正确地捕获、处理和提供数据，以支持有意义的用户体验。
- 使用大数据技术（例如Spark、Kafka）实现和维护数据处理任务，以处理大规模数据集。
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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 data / ML engineer to join our Social Experience team. You will be instrumental in developing and refining the data-driven recommendations systems that help our users connect, interact, and discover content and communities. This role involves working with AWS, Python/FastAPI, Node.js, and Snowflake to build, train, and operationalize personalization systems. You will be instrumental in processing and transforming the large volumes of data generated by our platform to create meaningful user experiences. If you’re passionate about data engineering and leveraging data to enhance content discovery, this role could be the perfect fit.
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.
What You'll Do
- Work within a full-stack team of engineers to develop, maintain, and optimize scalable data pipelines, backend services, and APIs for data-driven features like recommendations, content discovery, groups, and events in VRChat.
- Design and implement data models and schemas that support both analytical needs and real-time recommendation systems.
- Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to ensure the correct data is captured, processed, and available to power meaningful user experiences.
- Implement and maintain data processing jobs using big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Kafka) to handle large-scale datasets.
- Contribute to the evolution of our technical and product capabilities, helping to progress from simple heuristics to more sophisticated, data-backed personalization for content and experiences.
- Participate in the design and implementation of backend systems including REST and websocket APIs, caching systems, queueing systems, and cloud orchestration.
- Be available to occasionally jump into action to solve an outage.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on data engineering and building scalable backend systems for SaaS products or online platforms.
- Proven experience building and optimizing production-grade data pipelines (ETL/ELT).Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with database optimization for both analytical queries and high-throughput real-time access.
- Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop/Beam, or Kafka.
- Experience with cloud providers at scale, such as AWS or Google Cloud.
- Able to work in a variety of languages and technologies, such as Python, JavaScript/Node.js, Mongo, and Redis.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, data warehousing, and machine learning (ML) systems.
- An agile, collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills, capable of working effectively in a remote, cross-functional team environment.
Bonus Points
- Experience building and scaling aspects of content discovery or recommendation systems.
- Demonstrated interest in online communities, VR, or VRChat (as a user or creator). Knowing how our platform and community works will be helpful for this role.
- Experience with social networks, social graphs, or systems dealing with user-generated content.
- Experience working on consumer products, e-commerce, or two-sided marketplaces.
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