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About the Role

Design and drive technical solutions for key systems within Patreon's backend platform and foundational infrastructure. Lead architecture and implementation of scalable distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform services. Contribute to and lead modernization efforts across backend architecture, service boundaries, data access patterns, and infrastructure. Help establish and uphold technical standards and best practices around reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability. Partner with product engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business and product needs. Drive technical decision-making for your team's projects, partnering cross-functionally as needed. Help evolve operational maturity around incident management, resiliency, and production excellence. Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on collaboration.

Responsibilities

Design and drive technical solutions for key systems within Patreon's backend platform and foundational infrastructure
Lead architecture and implementation of scalable distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform services
Contribute to and lead modernization efforts across backend architecture, service boundaries, data access patterns, and infrastructure
Help establish and uphold technical standards and best practices around reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability
Partner with product engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business and product needs
Drive technical decision-making for your team's projects, partnering cross-functionally as needed
Help evolve operational maturity around incident management, resiliency, and production excellence
Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on collaboration

Requirements

Significant experience building large-scale backend systems, with depth in distributed systems and platform architecture (typically 6-8+ years, or equivalent demonstrated expertise)
Strong expertise in distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, and low-latency architectures that support millions of DAUs
Experience with databases, caching systems, and storage technologies (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB)
Strong understanding of data modeling, storage systems, caching, queues, and event-driven architectures
Experience in performance optimization across APIs, databases, caching layers, and distributed services
Strong operational excellence mindset, including incident response and production debugging
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 architectural trade-offs clearly in writing and in cross-functional forums
Experience mentoring Senior and mid-level engineers and contributing to engineering culture through design reviews, documentation, or team standards

Skills

Distributed systems
Platform architecture
High-throughput APIs
Low-latency architectures
Databases
Caching systems
Storage technologies
Data modeling
Queues
Event-driven architectures
Performance optimization
Incident response
Production debugging
Cloud-native environments
AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Java
Rust
Architectural trade-offs communication
Mentoring engineers

Location

San Francisco
New York

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

6-8+ years

Benefits

Salary
Equity plans
Healthcare
Flexible time off
Company holidays
Recharge days
Commuter benefits
Lifestyle stipends
Learning and development stipends
Patronage
Parental leave
401k plan with matching

About the Company

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences.
We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.
Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class.
We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform to support our mission.
The Backend Platform team builds the foundational systems and infrastructure that power Patreon's creator platform.
We're responsible for the core backend services, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and developer tooling that enable product teams across the company to ship quickly, reliably, and at scale.
This team is growing and investing in foundational platform capabilities that will support Patreon's next phase of scale and product expansion.
Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do.
Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work.
Put Creators First | They're the reason we're here. When creators win, we win.
Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
Make it Happen | We don't quit. We learn and deliver.
Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.

Equal Opportunity

Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accommodations@patreon.