2 months ago
Base Salary
$212k - $318k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, scale, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency live inference infrastructure for relevance systems.
- Own the feature store lifecycle from ingestion and transformation through production serving, ensuring high availability and online/offline feature consistency.
- Design and implement observability, monitoring, and validation frameworks for performance gaps, latency spikes, and production drift.
- Translate product requirements into robust, scalable infrastructure solutions with Product, Data Engineering, and Trust & Safety partners.
- Automate model deployment and reliability testing to improve developer velocity and system stability.
- Debug relevance systems when monitoring identifies performance bottlenecks or reliability issues.
Requirements
- Deep experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-grade ML infrastructure at scale, including low-latency live inference pipelines and feature store architectures.
- Strong background in distributed systems and backend engineering.
- Ability to write robust, maintainable Python code.
- Systematic approach to debugging complex, high-throughput systems and performance bottlenecks.
- Experience building foundational infrastructure systems and documenting system architectures and infrastructure strategies.
- Strong communication, code review, collaboration, and developer-enablement skills.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package including salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.
- Role is based in San Francisco or New York with an in-office hybrid work model stated as three days per week in the role description; the company policy later states two days per week for office-based employees.
- Remote-eligible employees are not expected to meet the same in-office requirements.
- Patreon is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
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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.