Patreon
Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform
$258K–$386K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- Typically 6–8+ years, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of scalable backend platform systems and infrastructure that help Patreon’s product teams build reliably and at scale.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture and implementation of distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform services.
- Modernize backend architecture and infrastructure while improving reliability, performance, scalability, and operational maturity.
- Partner with product teams, guide technical decisions, and mentor engineers through design reviews and hands-on collaboration.
What they ask for
- Significant experience with large-scale backend systems, distributed systems, and platform architecture.
- Expertise in high-throughput APIs, low-latency architectures, performance optimization, and event-driven systems.
- Experience with databases, caching, storage technologies, and cloud-native environments such as AWS and Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Rust.
Pay
$257.5K – $386K USD base salary
Tools
MySQL, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Go
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