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About the Role
Patreon is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead teams responsible for core infrastructure and platform services. This role is crucial for scaling Patreon's platform to support millions of users and ensuring reliability, scalability, and developer-friendliness.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow multiple Platform & Infrastructure Engineering teams, including backend services, APIs, developer platforms, and reliability foundations and AI enablement
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for scaling Patreon’s platform as usage, content, and integrations grow
- Drive platform initiatives across core backend services & APIs, service reliability, availability, and performance, platform scalability and capacity planning, and internal developer tooling and productivity
- Partner with product engineering teams to enable faster feature delivery while maintaining platform stability
- Establish strong operational excellence (on-call, incident response, SLAs, SLOs)
- Hire, develop, and mentor senior engineering managers and technical leaders
- Communicate clearly with executives and cross-functional partners about risks, tradeoffs, and platform investments
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management
- Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational backend teams
- Proven track record scaling a consumer product, UGC platform, or marketplace to millions of users
- Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
- Experience operating production systems with high availability and performance requirements
- Background in developer platforms, internal tooling, or platform abstractions
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), data pipelines, and event-driven systems
- Experience leading through major architectural transitions or scale inflection points
Location
- New York
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior Engineering Leader
Salary/Compensations
- The posted salary range is dependent on the location and the level. This range may encompass multiple levels within the role’s job family. The final offer will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, competencies, and geographic location, aligning with the appropriate job level within Patreon’s leveling framework. For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package including and not limited to 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.
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.
- 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.