14 hours ago
Base Salary
$189k - $256k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that serve creator insights at scale.
- Build and maintain data pipelines, jobs, and models in partnership with Data Engineering.
- Improve data quality, monitoring, performance, and reliability, including idempotency, backfills, and late or duplicate data handling.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to develop well-scoped solutions.
- Drive technical design, write tested and maintainable code, and mentor teammates.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of backend software development experience, with production services and API development experience.
- Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language and familiarity with testing, CI/CD, and monitoring practices.
- Strong SQL skills and experience designing and optimizing relational data models such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on experience with data-intensive work such as batch or streaming pipelines, scheduled jobs, event logging, or analytical data serving.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with comfort partnering across product, design, and data teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with Spark, Flink, Delta Lake, Iceberg, data quality or observability tooling, customer-facing analytics features, and analytics or experimentation metric design.
Benefits
- US benefits include healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays, recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and a 401(k) plan with matching.
- The role is based in New York or San Francisco and follows a hybrid schedule requiring three days per week in the office.
- Patreon also offers equity plans and a competitive benefits package.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About 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.