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Director of Platform Engineering

United States, San Francisco 328000.00 - 492000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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Patreon is looking for a Director of Platform Engineering 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, and operated in environments with high availability, bursty traffic, and complex distributed systems.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead and grow multiple Platform & Infrastructure Engineering teams, including backend services, APIs, developer platforms, and reliability foundations
  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for scaling Patreon’s platform as usage, content, and integrations grow
  • Drive platform initiatives across: Core backend services & APIs, Service reliability, availability, and performance, Platform scalability and capacity planning, Internal developer tooling and productivity
  • Partner with product engineering teams to enable faster feature delivery while maintaining platform stability
  • Establish strong operational excellence (on-call, incident response, SLAs, SLOs)
  • Hire, develop, and mentor senior engineering managers and technical leaders
  • Communicate clearly with executives and cross-functional partners about risks, tradeoffs, and platform investments

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management
  • Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational backend teams
  • Proven track record scaling a consumer product, UGC platform, or marketplace to millions of users
  • Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
  • Experience operating production systems with high availability and performance requirements

Nice to have

  • 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 we offer

  • Equity
  • Healthcare
  • Flexible time off
  • Company holidays and recharge days
  • Commuter benefits
  • Lifestyle stipends
  • Learning and development stipends
  • Patronage
  • Parental leave
  • 401k plan with matching
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