Staff Data Engineer, Patreon
Analytics
$198.9-299k
+ Equity plan
Funding platform for creatives
Open for applications
Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$198.9-299k
+ Equity plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Patreon's mission is to power creators to do what they love, and get paid by the people who love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- Expert in SQL, Spark and Python or Scala
- Significant experience modeling data and developing core data sets and metrics to support analytics, reports and experimentation. Solid understanding of how to use data to inform the product roadmap
- Enjoy collaborating with Data Scientists, Product Managers, Product Engineers, Financial and Operational teams. Comfortable playing the role of a Project Manager in order to drive results
- Have previously built real-time and batch data pipelines using tooling such as Airflow, Spark, Kafka, S3, Fivetran, Census, etc. Experience working with event tracking frameworks, data observability frameworks and experimentation frameworks
- Solve our most challenging data pipeline problems, utilizing optimal ETL patterns, frameworks, query techniques, sourcing from structured and unstructured data sources
- Experience working with Data Platform Infra, including Data Warehouses and Data Lakes such as Databricks, Redshift, Big Query, Snowflake, Delta Lake, etc
- Highly motivated self-starter that is keen to make an impact and is unafraid of tackling large, complicated problems and putting in the work to ensure high craft deliverables
What the job involves
- Ultimately, our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we’re leaders in that space, with: 8B+ earned since Patreon's inception, 30M free new memberships in the first year of launching that option, and, 10M fans paying each month for exclusive access to creators' work and community
- Work on a tight-knit team of highly motivated and experienced data engineers with frequent collaboration with data scientists, product managers, product engineers, finance and operational teams
- Build core data sets and metrics to power analytics, reports and experimentation
- Write real-time and batch data pipelines to support a wide range of projects and features including our creator-facing analytics product, executive reporting, FP&A, marketing initiatives, model training, data science analytics, A/B testing, etc
- Advocate for best patterns and practices in areas of data pipeline design, performance and testing of datasets
- Be a driver of a data-centric culture at Patreon. Work autonomously on large green field initiatives and help define data best practices at the company
Our take
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over its over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5 billion through the platform. It is going through a period of downsizing to focus on its core business, and is continuing to hire talent to improve its product and expand its marketing efforts.
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Insights
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49% female employees
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Commuter stipend
- Training budget
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- 401k
Company values
- Build with care
- Think big, but start small
- Guide & empower
- Respect the value of creators’ work
- Honor the relationship between creators and patrons
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jack Conte
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(CTO)Worked in analytics and engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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