Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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 video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases. Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with: $10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception 100 million+ free memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and 25 million+ paid memberships on Patreon today. 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 Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure to support our mission. This role is remote, with optional in-person attendance in either the New York or San Francisco office. About the Team The Data Foundations team at Patreon builds the pipelines, models, and infrastructure that power both customer-facing and internal data products. The Data Infrastructure function within the team owns the foundational platform — streaming, batch, and data lake infrastructure — that every data pipeline, analytics workload, and ML system at Patreon runs on. You'll join a small, high-craft team that partners across Pro [... source excerpt omitted ...] ata platform's reliability and performance. Mentor other engineers on infrastructure and streaming best practices, and help shape the long-term data infrastructure roadmap. What you'll need: 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years focused on data or platform infrastructure. Deep, hands-on experience architecting both batch (Airflow, Dagster, or similar) and stream processing systems at scale (Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, or similar). Familiarity with data quality, lineage, observability, and governance tooling. Strong programming skills in Python (Java, Scala, or Go a plus) and SQL. Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and broad fluency across da [... source excerpt omitted ...] ntional about the in-person time we spend together to strengthen the feeling of community at Patreon. Candidates hired into remote-eligible roles are not expected to meet the same requirements. At Patreon, we believe in fair and transparent pay. In compliance with New York and California pay transparency laws, we are sharing the expected salary range for this role. The posted salary range is dependent on the location and the level. This range may encompass multiple levels within the role’s job family. The final offer will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, competencies, and geographic location, aligning with the appropriate job level within Patreon’s leveling framework. Fo