# Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

Hiring organization: [Patreon](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/patreon)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/e41f9df4-2782-435d-a6ff-d7540af69640

Listed on Patreon's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 257500 – 386000 USD per year

## Summary

This Staff-level backend engineering role focuses on designing and scaling Patreon's foundational platform systems, APIs, and infrastructure that support hundreds of thousands of creators. The position suits experienced distributed systems engineers who thrive on architectural challenges and mentoring others in a high-scale environment.

_Our summary, not Patreon's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), DynamoDB, Go, Java, Kubernetes, MySQL, Python, Redis, Rust

## Required

- 6–8+ years building large-scale backend systems or equivalent expertise
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and platform architecture
- Experience designing high-throughput APIs and low-latency systems at scale
- Knowledge of databases, caching systems, and storage technologies
- Understanding of data modeling, storage, caching, queues, and event-driven patterns
- Performance optimization experience across APIs, databases, and distributed services
- Operational excellence mindset including incident response and production debugging
- Experience running systems in cloud-native environments like AWS and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Go, Java, or Rust)
- Ability to communicate architectural trade-offs clearly across teams
- Experience mentoring senior and mid-level engineers

Apply on Patreon's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/patreon/c277b009-0c9c-4ae7-a72b-56aaad0d985c/application