# Staff Backend Engineer, Video Platform at Patreon

- Company: Patreon
- What the company does: Backed by Index, NEA and CRV.
- Company website: http://patreon.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $258K to $386K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-26
- Apply by: 2026-12-10
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/patreon/d04be41a-654f-43c1-99e7-307f6e2b7f00?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/patreon-staff-backend-engineer-video-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/patreon-staff-backend-engineer-video-platform/