Patreon
Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Developer Productivity
$296K–$444K
Remote +2 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Remote
San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management.
About the job
Leads Patreon’s Infrastructure and Developer Productivity teams, owning their roadmap and execution to improve production reliability, engineering efficiency, and AI-enabled software development.
What you'll do
- Manage and grow individual contributors; oversee hiring, performance, and career development.
- Lead operational excellence across observability, on-call, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and Production Readiness Reviews.
- Set infrastructure, developer-productivity, and AI-enablement strategy in partnership with Product Engineering, Security, and Data.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management; managing managers or senior ICs across multiple teams is described as ideal.
- Direct experience leading infrastructure, platform, or developer-productivity teams supporting a consumer product at scale.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Experience operating scalable production systems with high-availability and performance requirements; strong cross-functional partnership skills.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling developer tooling, such as CI/CD, testing platforms, or internal developer environments.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development; organizational rollout of AI coding tools or agents, including adoption metrics and guardrails.
Pay
$296K – $444K USD base salary
Tools
AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code tooling, CI/CD
AI focus
Drive AI-enablement strategy, including decisions on standardizing tools and workflows versus allowing team choice; the role may involve rolling out AI coding tools or agents, adoption metrics, and guardrails.
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