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Oversee and guide a team of engineers to deliver a reliable, seamless payments experience, aligning with product and company goals. | Extensive experience in software engineering, proven leadership in managing engineering teams, and a background in complex, mission-critical systems, particularly in payments or fintech domains. | 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 heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for an Engineering Manager to support our mission. This role is based in New York or San Francisco and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model. About the Team Payments Core Experience aims to create delightful user experiences for all things Payments. Our goal is to create the most reliable, creator-friendly payments tools for creators to run their businesses. We want our platform to be so safe, reliable, and seamless that users look for the Patreon logo on checkout, when purchasing creator media & services around the internet. About the Role As an Engineering Manager of Payments Core Experience, you will be partnering with product, operations, design, and data to craft a vision and roadmap to deliver a high quality payments product for our creators and their fans. You will be overseeing a team of software engineers to realize that vision. • Set a high engineering bar and support a team of software engineers to achieve it • Partner with the Payments Platform team to ensure the right engineering foundations are set for not only the team’s product goals but also for payments needs of the rest of Patreon • Delegate or be hands on when necessary, ensuring key outcomes are achieved while bringing visibility to the team’s work • Partner with Product and Engineering leads to define Payments north stars, success metrics, and roadmap sequencing for H1/H2 • Use research, product data, and support signals to inform priorities and iterate on designs • Ensure the core journeys your teams own feel clear, trustworthy, and modern across web and mobile • Collaborate with other teams so payments experiences feel cohesive across Insights, Creator Success, and other surfaces product areas • Help the broader company understand the “why” behind the Payments roadmap and the creator and fan problems we’re solving • Get out ahead of the near-term roadmap and discover future opportunities through product vision initiatives that you propose and manage About You • 5+ years of software engineering experience and at 3+ years of experience managing an engineering team • Proven track record shipping high‑impact, end‑to‑end product work in complex domains (ideally payments, fintech, or other mission‑critical systems) • Comfortable people managing but stepping in and identifying when more hands on effort is needed to drive the right outcomes • Deep commitment to building high craft user experiences for both creators and fans • Experience working with experimentation driven approaches to optimize product surfaces and use of data to inform roadmap decisions • Skilled at building healthy, trusting relationships across Product, Design, business partners, and other engineering teams. 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. We 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. 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. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accommodations@patreon. Patreon 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. Patreon 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. At 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. The 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. For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions. Patreon reserves the right to modify or update compensation and benefits at any time.

Design, build, and maintain data pipelines, models, and tooling to support data products and analytics. | Requires 4+ years in software development, experience with scalable data pipelines, SQL, Spark, Python, and familiarity with modern data lakes and warehouses. | 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 heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Data to support our mission. This role is remote with optional in-person attendance in either the New York or San Francisco office. Expect to travel a handful of times per year for team building and collaboration offsites. About the Team The Data Engineering team at Patreon builds pipelines, models, and tooling that power both customer-facing and internal data products. As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you’ll architect and scale the data foundation that underpins our creator analytics product, discovery and safety ML systems, internal product analytics, executive reporting, experimentation, and company-wide decision-making. We’re a team of pragmatic engineers who care deeply about data quality, reliable systems, and clear definitions. We partner closely with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, Finance, Marketing, and Sales teams to ensure that the insights driving Patreon’s business and product are trustworthy, explainable, and actionable. About the Role Design, build, and maintain the pipelines that power all data use cases. This includes ingestion of raw data from production databases, object storage, and message queues, and vendors into our Data Lake, and building core datasets and metrics. Develop intuitive, performant, and scalable data models (facts, dimensions, aggregations) that support product features, internal analytics, experimentation, and machine learning workloads. Implement robust batch and streaming pipelines using Spark, Python, and Airflow. Build pipelines adhering to standards for accuracy, completeness, lineage, and dependency management. Build monitoring and observability so teams can trust what they’re using. Work with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, Finance, Marketing, and Sales to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped, high-impact data solutions. Pay down technical debt, improve automation, and follow best practices in data modeling, testing, and reliability. Mentor peers earlier in their career within the team. About You 4+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years of experience in building scalable, production-grade data pipelines. Familiarity with SQL and distributed data processing tools like Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams, or similar. Strong programming foundations in Python or similar language, with good software engineering design patterns and principles (testing, CI/CD, monitoring). Familiar with modern data lakes (eg: Delta Lake, Iceberg). Familiar with data warehouses (eg: Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery) and production data stores such as relational (eg: MySQL, PostgreSQL), object (eg: S3), key-value (eg: DynamoDB) and message queues (eg: Kinesis, Kafka) Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable partnering with non-technical stakeholders, writing crisp design docs, giving actionable feedback, and can influence without authority across teams. Understanding of data modeling and metric design principles. Passionate about data quality, system reliability, and empowering others through well-crafted data assets. Highly motivated self-starter who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and takes pride in high-craft, high-impact work. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent 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. We 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. 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. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accommodations@patreon. [US] Patreon 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. [Portugal] Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, vacation leave, company holidays and recharge days, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave and sick leave, and pension with an employer contribution. [UK] Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, vacation leave, company holidays and recharge days, patronage, parental leave and sick leave, and pension with an employer contribution. Patreon 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. At 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. The 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. For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions. Patreon reserves the right to modify or update compensation and benefits at any time.