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
Preferred: 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

Benefits

Competitive benefits package including salary and equity plans
Healthcare
Flexible time off
Company holidays and recharge days
Commuter benefits
Lifestyle stipends
Learning and development stipends
Parental leave
401k plan with matching

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills

engineering managementdistributed systemsAPIsservice-oriented architecturesplatform scalabilitycapacity planninghigh availabilityperformance optimizationcloud infrastructureevent-driven systems

Soft skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationoperational excellencecross-functional collaboration