Patreon · 4 hours ago
Director of Platform Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expPatreon is a media and community platform that empowers creators by providing them with tools to engage with their fans and build sustainable businesses. They are seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead teams responsible for core infrastructure and platform services, ensuring reliability and scalability as usage grows. This role involves strategic planning, team development, and collaboration with various departments to enhance the platform's capabilities.
Content CreatorsMusicPodcastVideo
Responsibilities
Lead and grow multiple Platform & Infrastructure Engineering teams, including backend services, APIs, developer platforms, and reliability foundations
Own the technical strategy and roadmap for scaling Patreon’s platform as usage, content, and integrations grow
Drive platform initiatives across: Core backend services & APIs, Service reliability, availability, and performance, Platform scalability and capacity planning, Internal developer tooling and productivity
Partner with product engineering teams to enable faster feature delivery while maintaining platform stability
Establish strong operational excellence (on-call, incident response, SLAs, SLOs)
Hire, develop, and mentor senior engineering managers and technical leaders
Communicate clearly with executives and cross-functional partners about risks, tradeoffs, and platform investments
Qualification
Required
10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management
Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational backend teams
Proven track record scaling a consumer product, UGC platform, or marketplace to millions of users
Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
Experience operating production systems with high availability and performance requirements
Preferred
Background in developer platforms, internal tooling, or platform abstractions
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), data pipelines, and event-driven systems
Experience leading through major architectural transitions or scale inflection points
Benefits
Salary
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
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (32)
2024 (13)
2023 (12)
2022 (20)
2021 (3)
2020 (3)
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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