Patreon · 1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer, Data
United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$130K/yr - $160K/yr
6+ years expPatreon is a media and community platform supporting creators, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance their data engineering capabilities. This role involves architecting and scaling the data foundation for various analytics and machine learning systems, collaborating closely with multiple teams to ensure data quality and reliability.
Content CreatorsMusicPodcastVideo
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain the pipelines that power all data use cases. This includes ingestion of raw data from production databases, object storage, and message queues, and vendors into our Data Lake, and building core datasets and metrics
Develop intuitive, performant, and scalable data models (facts, dimensions, aggregations) that support product features, internal analytics, experimentation, and machine learning workloads
Implement robust batch and streaming pipelines using Spark, Python, and Airflow. Handle complex patterns like incremental processing, event-time partitioning, and late data handling
Define and enforce standards for accuracy, completeness, lineage, and dependency management. Build monitoring and observability so teams can trust what they’re using
Work with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, Finance, Marketing, and Sales to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped, high-impact data solutions
Pay down technical debt, improve automation, and drive best practices in data modeling, testing, and reliability. Mentor peers and help shape the future of Patreon’s data
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years of experience in building scalable, production-grade data pipelines
Expert-level proficiency in SQL and distributed data processing tools like Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, or similar
Strong programming foundations in Python or similar language, with good software engineering design patterns and principles (testing, CI/CD, monitoring)
Expert in modern data lakes (eg: Delta Lake, Iceberg). Familiar with data warehouses (eg: Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery) and production data stores such as relational (eg: MySQL, PostgreSQL), object (eg: S3), key-value (eg: DynamoDB) and message queues (eg: Kinesis, Kafka)
Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable partnering with non-technical stakeholders, writing crisp design docs, giving actionable feedback, and can influence without authority across teams
Understanding of data modeling and metric design principles
Passionate about data quality, system reliability, and empowering others through well-crafted data assets
Highly motivated self-starter who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and takes pride in high-craft, high-impact work
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent
Benefits
Equity plans
Healthcare
Flexible time off
Company holidays and recharge days
Commuter benefits
Lifestyle stipends
Learning and development stipends
Patronage
Parental leave
401k plan with matching
Company
Patreon
Patreon is an online platform connecting musicians and other artists with their fan base.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$413.3MKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementGlade Brook Capital PartnersThrive Capital
2021-11-10Secondary Market
2021-09-15Series Unknown
2021-04-06Series F· $155M
Leadership Team
Jack Conte
CEO & Co-Founder
Sam Yam
Co-founder, President & CTO
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