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Staff Software Engineer, Storage
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About the role
- Designing and implementing backend systems that handle millions of requests per day
- Writing efficient, scalable, and maintainable code
- Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks
Responsibilities
- Building our robust APIs that support our web and mobile applications
- Collaborating with other engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver high-quality features on time
- Every creator page load, membership payment, and fan interaction depends on systems we design and operate.
- As Patreon grows to support hundreds of thousands of creators and tens of millions of members, we ensure the platform stays fast, resilient, and dependable under massive scale.
- Our work enables every engineering team at Patreon to move faster and build with confidence.
- 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.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend software engineering
- Proficiency in Python or a similar language
- Strong understanding of software design patterns and principles
- Experience with relational databases (such as PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (such as Redis)
- Experience with container orchestration (such as Kubernetes)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent professional experience
- We hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide.
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 Storage Platform team is the foundation Patreon is built on.
- We design and operate the core data systems and the services that tie them together - that power every creator page, membership transaction, and fan interaction on the platform.
- Our mission is to build the data foundation that lets Patreon scale without limits.
- We tackle some of the most challenging infrastructure problems at the company - distributed systems, data consistency, scalability, reliability, and developer productivity while giving engineers deep ownership over architecture and technical direction.
- If you care deeply about systems correctness, performance at scale, and building infrastructure that other engineers love building on top of - this is your team.
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