Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

What this role involves

Patreon is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for their Backend Platform team. The role involves defining technical strategy, leading architecture of distributed systems, and mentoring engineers. Candidates need extensive experience with backend systems and cloud-native environments.

Skills this posting asks for

• distributed systems
• high-throughput apis
• low-latency architectures
• mysql
• postgres
• redis
• dynamodb
• caching
• queues
• event-driven architectures
• performance optimization
• aws
• kubernetes
• python
• go
• java
• rust
• incident response
• production debugging
• mentoring

Requirements

• 10 years of experience
• Level: staff
• Remote policy: hybrid

From the employer’s posting

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live vid…