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$232,000 – $386,000
Listed on Patreon’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Patreon is hiring a Staff-level engineer to build and operate the batch and streaming data platforms that power their creator economy. You'll architect foundational infrastructure—Kafka, Kinesis, Airflow, Spark—that serves product, analytics, and ML teams, while mentoring peers and shaping the long-term data roadmap.
Our summary, not Patreon’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Flink
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Kafka
- ClickHouse
- Databricks
- DynamoDB
- Elasticsearch
- MySQL
- Python
- SPARK
- SQL
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years focused on data or platform infrastructure
- Hands-on experience architecting batch processing systems (Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
- Hands-on experience architecting stream processing systems at scale (Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, or similar)
- Familiarity with data quality, lineage, observability, and governance tooling
- Strong programming in Python
- SQL proficiency
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure
- Broad knowledge of data stores (object storage, RDBMS, key-value, OLAP, search/indexing)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent
Nice to have
- Experience with Delta Lake or Iceberg
- AWS experience
- Databricks experience
- Open-source streaming or infrastructure tooling contributions
- Experience supporting ML/AI workflows, training pipelines, or evaluation systems
- Java, Scala, or Go proficiency