Staff Backend Engineer, Live Video Platform

EON Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Patreon is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer, Video Platform to shape the live video platform powering creators and their communities. You’ll combine backend engineering with streaming expertise to deliver reliable, high‑quality experiences at scale.

Based in San Francisco or New York, the role supports a hybrid model with three days in the office each week; remote candidates may also be considered. You’ll own architecture, build scalable services, improve latency, and mentor engineers across

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating large-scale backend systems with technical leadership across teams.
• Experience architecting and delivering live video systems supporting large audiences.
• Deep knowledge of streaming technologies (HLS, low-latency HLS, WebRTC) and latency/quality trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of live video systems (ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery, 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.
• Drive vendor evaluation and integration for video with build-versus-buy considerations.
• Establish observability, SLIs/SLOs, and load-testing practices for major events.
• Own production reliability including incident response and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with product, infra, web, and mobile to shape a multi-quarter video roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and set technical standards to improve system quality.

Skills

Backend architecture

Live video streaming

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Web/APIs

Observability

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

WebRTC

Job description

Patreon is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer, Video Platform to shape the live video platform powering creators and their communities. You’ll combine backend engineering with streaming expertise to deliver reliable, high‑quality experiences at scale.

Based in San Francisco or New York, the role supports a hybrid model with three days in the office each week; remote candidates may also be considered. You’ll own architecture, build scalable services, improve latency, and mentor engineers across