3 months ago
Base Salary
$296k - $444k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical strategy for Patreon's backend platform and foundational infrastructure
- Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform services
- Lead modernization efforts involving backend architecture, service boundaries, data access patterns, and infrastructure
- Establish technical standards and best practices for reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability
- Partner with product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business and product needs
- Shape cross-functional technical decision-making at organizational scale
- Improve operational maturity around incident management, resiliency, and production excellence
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers through design reviews, technical leadership, and hands-on collaboration
Requirements
- Typically 10+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems or equivalent demonstrated expertise
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, and low-latency architectures supporting millions of daily active users
- Experience with databases, caching systems, storage technologies, data modeling, queues, and event-driven architectures
- Experience optimizing performance across APIs, databases, caching layers, and distributed services
- Experience with incident response, production debugging, and operational excellence
- Experience operating systems in cloud-native environments such as AWS and Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Rust
- Ability to communicate complex architectural trade-offs clearly in writing and cross-functional forums
- Experience mentoring Staff and Senior engineers and contributing to engineering culture through design reviews, documentation, or team standards
Benefits
- Hybrid work model based in San Francisco with two days per week in the office
- Salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days
- Commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, and patronage
- Parental leave and a 401k plan with matching
Tech Stack
About Patreon
Patreon is the best place for creators to build community with their biggest fans, share exclusive work, and turn their passions into lasting creative businesses. Hundreds of thousands of video creators, podcasters, musicians, writers, game developers, and more are achieving creative and financial freedom doing what they love on Patreon, powered directly by fans who love what they do. Our endgame? A future where creators are in control, and real community thrives.