Full-Stack Trust & Safety Engineer – Remote

Lever, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Health benefits

Stock options

Generous holidays

Unlimited vacation

Paid parental leave

Job summary

VRChat is hiring a full-stack engineer for the Trust and Safety Tech team to build scalable moderation and safety systems on the MERN stack. You’ll work across backend and frontend to reduce harm, protect user privacy, and support compliant operations, while collaborating with product, design, and other engineers.

This is a remote role with strong emphasis on on-call readiness and cross-functional delivery.

Qualifications

• 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).

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

MERN stack

RESTful APIs

React

CSS

Redis

CI/CD

Observability

On-call

Privacy

Adversarial thinking

Agile mindset

Tools

MongoDB

Express

React

Node.js

Redis

Job description

VRChat is hiring a full-stack engineer for the Trust and Safety Tech team to build scalable moderation and safety systems on the MERN stack. You’ll work across backend and frontend to reduce harm, protect user privacy, and support compliant operations, while collaborating with product, design, and other engineers.

This is a remote role with strong emphasis on on-call readiness and cross-functional delivery.