Backed by Index, NEA and CRV.
About the role
As Patreon's first dedicated video engineer, you’ll shape the live video platform that connects creators with their communities. You’ll combine strong backend engineering with deep streaming expertise to build reliable, high-quality live experiences at scale. Lead the architecture and delivery of live video systems spanning ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Significant experience building and operating large-scale backend systems, with demonstrated technical leadership across teams
- Experience architecting and delivering live video systems supporting large audiences, ideally 100,000+ concurrent viewers
- Deep knowledge of live streaming technologies, including HLS, low-latency HLS, and WebRTC, and the trade-offs between latency, quality, reliability, and cost
- Experience diagnosing and improving streaming behavior, including buffering, adaptive bitrate delivery, stream failures, and the impact of packet loss
- Experience delivering broadcast and playback capabilities across web, iOS, and Android in partnership with client engineering teams
- Strong foundations in distributed systems, APIs, data storage, caching, queues, and event-driven architectures
More about this role
Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.
Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with:
$10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception
100 million+ free memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and
25 million+ paid memberships on Patreon today.
We're continuing to invest in building the best platform for creators and are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, Video Platform to help power reliable, high-quality live video experiences for creators and their communities.
This role can be based in San Francisco or New York, with three days per week in the office under our hybrid work model. Remote candidates may also be considered.
The Backend Platform team builds the foundational systems and infrastructure that power Patreon's creator platform. We own core backend services, APIs, databases, and...
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