Senior Engineering Manager, Patreon
Platform
$296-444k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
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Funding platform for creatives
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$296-444k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To put creators in control of their work and their futures by strengthening the bond between them and their communities.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management, or equivalent demonstrated leadership experience
- Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational backend teams
- Demonstrated experience scaling a consumer product, UGC platform, or marketplace to millions of users
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures in a production environment
- Experience operating production systems with high availability and performance requirements
- If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t match with every bullet point outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply anywa
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Director of Platform Engineering to support our mission
- We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the teams responsible for the core infrastructure and platform services that power Patreon's product and ecosystem
- This role is ideal for a senior engineering leader who has:
- Scaled a consumer, UGC, or marketplace platform to millions of users
- Led infrastructure and/or platform teams supporting product engineering at scale
- Operated in environments with high availability, bursty traffic, and complex distributed systems
- You'll partner closely with Product, Security, Data, and Product Engineering leaders to ensure Patreon's platform is reliable and scalable
- Lead 2–3 Platform & Infrastructure teams encompassing backend services, databases, and reliability foundations
- Own roadmap and execution strategy for your teams, aligned to org-wide and business goals
- Drive platform initiatives across core backend services, service reliability, performance and scalability
- Partner closely with Product, Security, Data, and peer engineering leaders
- Develop and mentor engineering managers directly reporting to you
- Contribute to area-wide multi-year strategy alongside the Director
- Produce written and verbal updates to the Director and cross-functional partners on risks, tradeoffs, and platform investment decisions
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 250,000 active creators having made $3.5B through the platform.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans are available to our US employees and their dependents. Our plans have a nationwide network and we also cover a primary care concierge membership.
- Balance & Wellness: We offer a generous Flexible Time Off policy, in addition to days throughout the year where everyone takes the same day off to recharge our batteries. Employees and their dependents also have access to therapy, coaching, and Employee Assistance Programs services.
- Family Planning: We provide 20 weeks of paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits, as well as an annual stipend for new additions to your families (including pets!).
- Lifestyle & Learning: You’ll have stipends to fund your personal lifestyle and to support your favorite creators on Patreon, as well as an annual stipend for learning and development.
- Hybrid Work: Our offices are in San Francisco, New York, and Porto. Plus, we have more teammates working remotely around the world.
- Financial Support: We offer employer matching for our retirement plans and Health Savings Account (HSA), as well as access to 1:1 financial guidance with a Certified Financial Planner.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Conte
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(Co-Founder, CTO & President)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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