Patreon jobs

Acquisitions Manager role at Patreon (creator platform) based in London, UK, focused on acquiring and onboarding digital creators into memberships. Requires 4–5 years creator/monetization strategy experience, pipeline management, and sales execution. Role is non-engineering (Go-to-Market/Sales) and London-based, not meeting domain or location criteria.

Patreon is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering to lead 2–3 teams responsible for core infrastructure and platform services powering the creator economy platform. The role involves owning roadmap and execution for backend services, databases, and reliability foundations while partnering with Product, Security, and Data leaders to ensure the platform scales reliably for millions of users. You'll need 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management, proven track record scaling consumer/UGC/marketplace platforms, and expertise in distributed systems, APIs, and production operations at high availability. This is a leadership position based in New York or San Francisco (hybrid, 2 days/week in-office) at a well-funded company that has generated $10 billion+ for creators and operates 25 million+ paid memberships. Patreon offers competitive salary (range not specified in provided text), equity, and comprehensive benefits including parental leave and learning stipends. A bonus is experience with developer platforms, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and leading through major architectural transitions.

Patreon, the creator-funding platform, is hiring a fullstack Software Engineer for its Creator World team in New York or San Francisco (hybrid, 2 days/week in-office). You'll design and build backend systems and APIs powering creator and fan-facing features, evolve existing systems serving millions of users, and collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to balance technical constraints with user experience. You need a CS degree or equivalent, 2–3+ years of software development experience, proficiency in Python or similar language, and a proven track record shipping consumer-facing backend systems. React/TypeScript frontend experience is a bonus. Patreon emphasizes mission alignment (supporting creators), product thinking, and technical clarity; the role offers competitive salary, equity, healthcare, and learning stipends, with pay transparency for CA/NY roles.

Patreon, a platform enabling 300,000+ creators to monetize their work through memberships and direct sales, is hiring a Senior Staff Backend Platform Engineer for their San Francisco office (hybrid, 2 days/week in-office). This role leads technical strategy and architecture for the Backend Platform team, which owns core services, APIs, databases, and infrastructure powering the creator platform. Responsibilities include defining backend platform strategy, architecting scalable distributed systems, modernizing backend architecture, mentoring Staff and Senior engineers, and establishing technical standards around reliability and performance. You'll need 10+ years building large-scale backend systems with deep expertise in distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, databases (MySQL, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB), and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes), plus proficiency in languages like Python, Go, Java, or Rust. Patreon offers competitive compensation with equity, healthcare, flexible PTO, and learning stipends. This is a staff-level position requiring extensive hands-on platform architecture expertise and mentorship of senior engineers across the organization.