Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
August 8, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Architect, build, and operate large scale batch and streaming platforms that directly power Patreon product features, analytics, and experimentation.
- • Stand up and scale event-driven and streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, PubSub, or similar) for real-time data ingestion, transformation, aggregation, and delivery to different data storage systems.
- • Build self-serve data platforms that let engineers, data scientists, and analysts safely discover data, define contracts, and create and operate pipelines with minimal friction.
- • Partner with the broader Infrastructure, Platform, and product engineering to drive architectural decisions across storage, compute, deployment, and orchestration to align the data ecosystem with Patreon’s roadmap.
- • Build the tooling, monitoring, and observability that gives engineers confidence in the data platform's reliability and performance.
- • Mentor other engineers on infrastructure and streaming best practices, and help shape the long-term data infrastructure roadmap.
🎯 Requirements
- • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years focused on data or platform infrastructure.
- • Deep, hands-on experience architecting both batch (Airflow, Dagster, or similar) and stream processing systems at scale (Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, or similar).
- • Familiarity with data quality, lineage, observability, and governance tooling.
- • Strong programming skills in Python (Java, Scala, or Go a plus) and SQL.
- • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and broad fluency across data stores: Object storage (S3), RDMS (MySQL, or Postgres, etc.), Key value (DynamoDB), OLAP (Clickhouse, Pinot, or Druid, etc.), search/indexing (Elasticsearch) plus data flow patterns for keeping them in sync with source systems.
- • Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable driving cross-functional infrastructure decisions.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Salary
- • Equity plans
- • Healthcare
- • Flexible time off
- • Company holidays and recharge days
- • Commuter benefits
- • Lifestyle stipends
- • Learning and development stipends
- • Patronage
- • Parental leave
- • 401k plan with matching
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About Patreon, Inc.
Patreon operates a membership platform that lets creators offer subscription tiers to fans who provide recurring financial support. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides billing, analytics, community and content-distribution tools that enable musicians, podcasters, writers, artists and other creators to earn predictable income while deepening engagement with their most dedicated followers. Fans pledge monthly amounts in exchange for perks such as early access, bonus material, merchandise and community interaction, with Patreon collecting a percentage of each transaction plus payment-processing fees.
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