Patreon
Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
$232K–$386K
Remote +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Location
- Remote
New York - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years focused on data or platform infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.
About the job
Architects and operates the batch and streaming data infrastructure that powers Patreon’s product features, analytics, experimentation, and ML systems.
What you'll do
- Build and scale batch, streaming, and event-driven data platforms and pipelines.
- Develop self-serve data tools and reliability, monitoring, and observability capabilities.
- Drive infrastructure architecture and roadmap decisions, and mentor engineers on data infrastructure best practices.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years focused on data or platform infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience architecting batch and stream-processing systems at scale.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience with Delta Lake/Iceberg, AWS, or Databricks.
- Experience supporting ML/AI workflows, training pipelines, or evaluation systems; open-source streaming or infrastructure contributions.
Pay
$232K – $386K USD base salary
Tools
Airflow, Dagster, Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, Python, SQL, S3
AI focus
Bonus experience supporting ML/AI workflows, training pipelines, or evaluation systems; the platform also runs ML systems.
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