Senior Backend Engineer, Live Video Platform

Patreon

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Equity plans

Healthcare

Flexible time off

Learning and development stipends

Job summary

Patreon is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer, Video Platform to shape the live video infrastructure powering creators and communities. You will lead architecture across ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback, and build scalable backend services for web and mobile.

You'll collaborate with product, infrastructure, web, and mobile teams, mentor engineers, and define quality metrics, observability, and resilience.

Qualifications

Extensive experience building and operating large-scale backend systems.
Experience delivering live video systems to large audiences.
Proficient in Python or Go and modern backend tooling.

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver live video systems spanning ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery and playback.
Build scalable backend services and APIs powering live video across web and mobile.
Improve end-to-end streaming latency, quality, and reliability across devices and networks.
Lead video vendor evaluation, integration, and buy-vs-build decisions.
Establish observability, metrics, and load-testing practices for major creator events.
Own production reliability through incident response and capacity planning.