Head of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

Patreon; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Patreon is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead and grow multiple Platform & Infrastructure Engineering teams. You will own the technical strategy and roadmap for scaling the platform as usage and content grow, while partnering with product, security, data, and product engineering leaders to ensure reliability and developer-friendly tooling.

The role requires 10+ years in engineering with 5+ in management, experience scaling a consumer/UGC platform, and strong distributed

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow multiple Platform & Infrastructure Engineering teams, including backend services, APIs, developer platforms, 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, service reliability, platform scalability, internal tooling, and cross-functional collaboration

Skills

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

APIs

Infrastructure management

Scalability

Executive communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Patreon is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead and grow multiple Platform & Infrastructure Engineering teams. You will own the technical strategy and roadmap for scaling the platform as usage and content grow, while partnering with product, security, data, and product engineering leaders to ensure reliability and developer-friendly tooling.

The role requires 10+ years in engineering with 5+ in management, experience scaling a consumer/UGC platform, and strong distributed