# Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure at Patreon

- Company: Patreon
- What the company does: Backed by Index, NEA and CRV.
- Company website: http://patreon.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $232K to $386K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/patreon/e8f0fe39-1a3f-4672-8857-0258800dc24f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/patreon-staff-software-engineer-data-infrastructure/

## About the role

Architect, build, and operate large scale batch and streaming platforms that directly power Patreon product features, analytics, and experimentation. Stand 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.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years focused on data or platform infrastructure
- Deep, hands-on experience architecting both batch (Airflow, Dagster, or similar) and stream processing systems at scale (Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, or similar)
- Familiarity with data quality, lineage, observability, and governance tooling
- Strong programming skills in Python (Java, Scala, or Go a plus) and SQL
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, comfortable driving cross-functional infrastructure decisions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent

Tags: Engineering