Patreon
Patreon builds a platform for creators to run paid and free fan communities, offering memberships, community chats, live video, and one-time purchases. The business monetizes via fees on creator earnings and subscription tools; it is privately held, founded in 2013, and headquartered in San Francisco. Over 300,000 creators use Patreon, and the platform has enabled $10 billion+ in creator earnings.
Open Positions at Patreon
7 open positions
Lead the architecture and delivery of Patreon’s live video platform, from ingest and transcoding through playback, for large-scale creator events. This foundational role combines backend engineering, streaming expertise, and technical leadership as Patreon’s first dedicated video engineer.
Build backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that power Patreon’s creator insights and analytics experiences. This hybrid New York or San Francisco role combines backend product engineering with data-intensive platform work.
Join Patreon’s 12-week Summer 2027 Software Engineering Internship to build and ship a feature supporting the creator economy while learning alongside an experienced engineering team.
Join Patreon’s 12-week Summer 2027 Software Engineering Internship to build and ship a creator-focused product feature alongside experienced engineers and cross-functional partners. The hybrid internship is based in San Francisco or New York and includes mentorship, learning opportunities, and team activities.
Patreon is seeking a Security Engineer to reduce security risks across application, infrastructure, and corporate security. The role combines proactive security engineering, incident investigations, vulnerability response, software development, and security on-call support.
Staff Software Engineer joining Patreon’s Backend Platform team to design and lead scalable distributed systems, APIs, and foundational infrastructure supporting the creator platform. The role combines deep backend architecture with technical leadership, modernization, and mentoring.
Build and scale the foundational batch, streaming, and data lake infrastructure that powers Patreon’s product features, analytics, experimentation, and ML systems. This remote-eligible Staff Software Engineer role combines hands-on architecture, platform reliability, and mentorship.