资深软件工程师，后端平台
Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform
Patreon 是一个媒体和社区平台，超过 30 万名创作者为他们的忠实粉丝提供独家作品和体验。我们为创作者提供了多种与粉丝互动并建立持久业务的方式，包括：付费会员、免费会员、社区聊天、直播视频，以及通过一次性购买直接向粉丝销售产品。
我们的最终目标很简单：资助创意群体。我们在该领域是领导者，具体表现为：
- 自 Patreon 成立以来，创作者已产生超过 100 亿美元的收入
- 有超过 1 亿个免费会员，这些粉丝可能尚未准备好付费
- 目前有超过 2500 万个付费会员在 Patreon 上
我们正在大力投资打造最好的创作者平台，并组建了最好的团队，以支持创作者经济的发展，现正在寻找一名资深软件工程师，后端平台方向，以支持我们的使命。
这个职位可以在旧金山或纽约办公，采用混合办公模式，每周需到办公室工作 3 天。
关于团队
后端平台团队构建支撑 Patreon 创作者平台的基础系统和基础设施。我们负责核心后端服务、API、数据库、基础设施和开发者工具，使公司内部的产品团队能够快速、可靠且可扩展地交付产品。该团队正在扩大，并正在投资于基础平台能力，以支持 Patreon 下一阶段的扩展和产品发展。
关于职位
- 设计并推动 Patreon 后端平台和基础架构中关键系统的技术解决方案
- 领导可扩展分布式系统、API、事件驱动系统和平台服务的架构和实现
- 参与并领导后端架构、服务边界、数据访问模式和基础设施的现代化工作
- 帮助建立并维护可靠性、性能、可扩展性和可维护性的技术标准和最佳实践
- 与产品工程团队合作，确保平台功能符合业务和产品需求
- 为团队项目的技术决策提供主导作用，必要时跨职能协作
- 推动事故管理、弹性能力和生产卓越方面的操作成熟度发展
- 通过设计评审、技术指导和实际合作，指导高级和中级工程师
所需条件
- 在构建...
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Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.
Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with:
- $10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception
- 100 million+ free memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and
- 25 million+ paid memberships on Patreon today.
We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform to support our mission.
This role can be based in San Francisco or New York and open to those who are able to be in-office 3 days per week on a hybrid work model.
About the Team
The Backend Platform team builds the foundational systems and infrastructure that power Patreon's creator platform. We're responsible for the core backend services, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and developer tooling that enable product teams across the company to ship quickly, reliably, and at scale. This team is growing and investing in foundational platform capabilities that will support Patreon's next phase of scale and product expansion.
About the Role
- Design and drive technical solutions for key systems within Patreon's backend platform and foundational infrastructure
- Lead architecture and implementation of scalable distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform services
- Contribute to and lead modernization efforts across backend architecture, service boundaries, data access patterns, and infrastructure
- Help establish and uphold technical standards and best practices around reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability
- Partner with product engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business and product needs
- Drive technical decision-making for your team's projects, partnering cross-functionally as needed
- Help evolve operational maturity around incident management, resiliency, and production excellence
- Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on collaboration
What you'll need
- Significant experience building large-scale backend systems, with depth in distributed systems and platform architecture (typically 6-8+ years, or equivalent demonstrated expertise)
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, and low-latency architectures that support millions of DAUs
- Experience with databases, caching systems, and storage technologies (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB)
- Strong understanding of data modeling, storage systems, caching, queues, and event-driven architectures
- Experience in performance optimization across APIs, databases, caching layers, and distributed services
- Strong operational excellence mindset, including incident response and production debugging
- Experience operating systems in cloud-native environments such as AWS and Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Rust
- Ability to communicate architectural trade-offs clearly in writing and in cross-functional forums
- Experience mentoring Senior and mid-level engineers and contributing to engineering culture through design reviews, documentation, or team standards
We hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide. If you're excited about a role but your past experience doesn't match with every bullet point outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. If you're a creator at heart, are energized by our mission, and share our company values, we'd love to hear from you.
About Patreon
Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:
- Put Creators First | They're the reason we're here. When creators win, we win.
- Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
- Make it Happen | We don't quit. We learn and deliver.
- Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.
Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accommodations@patreon.
Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.
Patreon operates under a hybrid work model, where employees based in office locations are expected to come into the office two days per week, excluding sick time and paid leave. The goal of this policy is to be intentional about the in-person time we spend together to strengthen the feeling of community at Patreon. Candidates hired into remote-eligible roles are not expected to meet the same requirements.
At Patreon, we believe in fair and transparent pay. In compliance with New York and California pay transparency laws, we are sharing the expected salary range for this role.
The posted salary range is dependent on the location and the level. This range may encompass multiple levels within the role's job family. The final offer will be based on candidate's experience, skills, competencies, and geographic location, aligning with the appropriate job level within Patreon leveling framework. For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions.
Patreon reserves the right to modify or update compensation and benefits at any time.