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Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Patreon· Engineering
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Remote$257k - $386kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Patreon is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure to architect, build, and operate large-scale batch and streaming data platforms that power product features, analytics, and experimentation. The role focuses on scalable event-driven systems, self-serve data platforms, and collaboration across infrastructure and product teams to ensure a reliable, observable data ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.

Skills

Required:PythonSQLAirflow or DagsterSpark / Flink / Kafka Streams

Benefits

  • salary and equity opportunities (Zone A: $257K–$386K; Zone B: $232K–$347.5K with equity)
  • competitive benefits package including 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.
  • hybrid work model with remote-eligible roles; optional in-person attendance in New York or San Francisco offices
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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