Senior Infra & Platform Engineering Lead

Patreon; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Equity plans

Flexible time off

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Patreon is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of ICs, owning hiring, performance, and career development for your org. You will drive architectural direction, mentoring, and people development within a consumer-focused platform.

You will also own operational excellence: observability standards, on-call structure, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and Production Readiness Reviews, while partnering with Product Engineering, Security, and Data to avoid bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management.
• Direct experience leading infrastructure/platform teams supporting a consumer product at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow ICs; own hiring, performance, and career development for your org.
• Own operational excellence: observability standards, on-call structure, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and Production Readiness Reviews.
• Partner closely with Product Engineering, Security, and Data leaders so infrastructure and tooling decisions don’t become a bottleneck.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Managerial experience

Infrastructure management

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

IaC tooling

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Patreon is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of ICs, owning hiring, performance, and career development for your org. You will drive architectural direction, mentoring, and people development within a consumer-focused platform.

You will also own operational excellence: observability standards, on-call structure, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and Production Readiness Reviews, while partnering with Product Engineering, Security, and Data to avoid bottlenecks.