Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

Patreon is the best place for creators to build exclusive content and community for their fans. We enable creators (podcasters, writers, musicians, illustrators, etc) to connect with their fans directly and make money from their creative work. Creators can sell one-off items from their own shops or offer recurring monthly memberships with exclusive access to their work.

There are over 250,000 active creators earning on Patreon and over 10 million members. Our goal has always been tohelp creators achieve financial freedom doing what they love - and we're leaders in the space, with over $3.5 billion earned by creators on our platform. We’re continuing to invest heavily in building the most talented team in the Creator Economy and are looking for a  Staff Software Engineer  to support our mission.

This role can be based in San Francisco, New York  or Remote.

What you will do:

• Design, architect, and implement Patreon’s next generation relational database strategy to support high availability, low latency, and scalability of a rapidly growing platform

• Implement self-service database tooling to automate complex tasks such as database provisioning and schema migrations

• Design and implement database tooling for CI/CD environments

• Partner with technical leaders to define data access and caching best practices for Patreon's core application.

• Partner with cross functional leaders across engineering to understand pain points and proactively build a more robust database platform

• Provide architectural, design, and guidance to software development teams to improve application performance when accessing databases

• Build tooling and process to ensure databases are performant and cost efficient

• Respond to and, when appropriate, resolve or escalate database incidents

Skills and experience you possess:

• 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with experience interacting with high scale MySQL deployments running in the cloud (preferred AWS)

• Hands-on experience with Python or similar programming languages

• Working knowledge of cloud native environments and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes

• You demonstrate high engineering craft and are passionate about being a bar raiser

Who You'll Work With:

At Patreon, you'll join a high-performing and highly-empathetic team of people who proudly work on fulfilling our mission of funding the creative class. Our culture of creator-first, thoughtful teammates keeps work creative, stretching, and rewarding.

About Patreon

Patreon 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:

• Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win. 

• Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.

• Make it Happen | We don’t quit. We learn and deliver.

• Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.

Patreon 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.

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.