Staff Backend Platform Engineer: Scale & Reliability

Patreon; San Francisco (CA); Hybride; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work model

Equity plans

Healthcare

Learning stipend

Parental leave

401k matching

Résumé du poste

Patreon is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform, to design and drive scalable backend systems and infrastructure. Based in San Francisco or New York, you will lead architecture and mentor engineers in a hybrid, in-office 3 days/week model.

You will partner with product teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business needs, and help evolve reliability, performance, and maintainability across services and tooling.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building large-scale backend systems with distributed architectures.
• Strong background in high-throughput, low-latency APIs for millions of DAUs.
• Experience with relational databases, caching, and storage technologies.
• Strong data modeling and storage system understanding; familiarity with queues and event-driven design.
• Proven ability to optimize performance across APIs, databases, and caches.
• Operational excellence mindset including incident response and production debugging.
• Experience operating cloud-native environments (AWS) and Kubernetes-based infra.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or Rust for backend services.
• Ability to communicate architectural trade-offs clearly in writing and meetings.
• Experience mentoring seniors and contributing to engineering culture.

Responsabilités

• Design and drive technical solutions for key systems within Patreon's backend platform.
• Lead architecture and implementation of scalable distributed systems and APIs.
• Contribute to modernization of backend architecture and data access patterns.
• Establish technical standards for reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Partner with product teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.
• Drive technical decisions and collaborate cross-functionally on projects.
• Evolve operational maturity around incident management and production excellence.
• Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews and hands-on guidance.

Connaissances

Distributed systems

High-throughput APIs

Low-latency architectures

Databases & caching

Data modeling

Performance optimization

Incident response

Cloud-native (AWS/Kubernetes)

Backend languages (Python/Go/Java/Rust

Architectural decision-making

Outils

MySQL

Postgres

Redis

DynamoDB

AWS

Kubernetes

Description du poste

Patreon is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform, to design and drive scalable backend systems and infrastructure. Based in San Francisco or New York, you will lead architecture and mentor engineers in a hybrid, in-office 3 days/week model.

You will partner with product teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business needs, and help evolve reliability, performance, and maintainability across services and tooling.