Patreon
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 67 days ago
PythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLMySQLRedisDynamoDBAWSKubernetesPlatform EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Establish technical standards and best practices around reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability
- Shape cross-functional technical decision-making at organizational scale
- Help evolve operational maturity around incident management, resiliency, and production excellence
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical strategy for Patreon's backend platform and foundational infrastructure
- Partner with product engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business and product needs
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers across the organization through design reviews, technical leadership, and hands-on collaboration
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, and low-latency architectures that support millions of DAUs
- Experience mentoring Staff and Senior engineers and contributing to engineering culture through design reviews, documentation, or team standards
- Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
- We learn and deliver.
Requirements
- 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
- 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 in cross-functional forums
- We hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide.
Skills
- Experience in performance optimization across APIs, databases, caching layers, and distributed services
- Experience operating systems in cloud-native environments such as AWS and Kubernetes-based infrastructure
Compensation
- Patreon offers a 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, pa
Company info
- 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 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.
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