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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.\nYou'll join a small, high-craft team that partners across Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, and the rest of Engineering to make sure the platform underneath all of that work is reliable, scalable, and easy for other engineers to build on.\nAbout the Role\nArchitect, build, and operate large scale batch and streaming platforms that directly power Patreon product features, analytics, and experimentation.\n\nStand up and scale event-driven and streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, PubSub, or similar) for real-time data ingestion, transformation, aggregation, and delivery to different data storage systems.\n\nBuild self-serve data platforms that let engineers, data scientists, and analysts safely discover data, define contracts, and create and operate pipelines with minimal friction.\n\nPartner with the broader Infrastructure, Platform, and product engineering to drive architectural decisions across storage, compute, deployment, and orchestration to align the data ecosystem with Patreon’s roadmap.\n\nBuild the tooling, monitoring, and observability that gives engineers confidence in the data platform's reliability and performance.\n\nMentor other engineers on infrastructure and streaming best practices, and help shape the long-term data infrastructure roadmap.\n\nWhat you'll need:\n8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years focused on data or platform infrastructure.\n\nDeep, hands-on experience architecting both batch (Airflow, Dagster, or similar) and stream processing systems at scale (Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, or similar).\n\nFamiliarity with data quality, lineage, observability, and governance tooling.\n\nStrong programming skills in Python (Java, Scala, or Go a plus) and SQL.\n\nFamiliarity with cloud infrastructure and broad fluency across data stores: Object storage (S3), RDMS (MySQL, or Postgres, etc.), Key value (DynamoDB), OLAP (Clickhouse, Pinot, or Druid, etc.), search/indexing (Elasticsearch) plus data flow patterns for keeping them in sync with source systems.\n\nExcellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable driving cross-functional infrastructure decisions.\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.\n\nBonus if you have:\nExperience with Delta Lake/Iceberg, AWS, or Databricks.\n\nContributed to open-source streaming or infrastructure tooling.\n\nExperience supporting ML/AI workflows, training pipelines, or evaluation systems.\n\nWe hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t match with every bullet point outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. If you’re a creator at heart, are energized by our mission, and share our company values, we’d love to hear from you.\nAbout Patreon\nPatreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:\nPut Creators First |They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win.\n\nBuild with Craft |We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.\n\nMake it Happen |We don’t quit. We learn and deliver.\n\nWin Together |We grow as individuals. We win as a team.\n\nPatreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accommodations@patreon.\nPatreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.\nPatreon operates under a hybrid work model, where employees based in office locations are expected to come into the office two days per week, excluding sick time and paid leave. The goal of this policy is to be intentional 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.\nAt 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.\nThe 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. 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