Software Engineer, Backend

Postgres, MySQL
UNITED STATES
November 12, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Patreon
Location: New York, United States
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Patreon is a media and community platform dedicated to funding the creative class. This role is part of the team building insights and analytics experiences for creators, focusing on the infrastructure that ensures data is accurate, fast, and reliable.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that serve creator insights at scale.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines, jobs, and models in partnership with Data Engineering.
  • Improve data quality, monitoring, and performance to build creator trust.
  • Drive technical design, write well-tested code, and mentor teammates.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 3+ years or 5+ years of experience in backend software development, building production services and APIs.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language, with good engineering practices.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience designing and optimizing relational data models (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL).
  • Hands-on experience with data-intensive work, such as batch or streaming pipelines (e.g. Airflow, Spark, Kafka / Kinesis, dbt).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Experience with data quality, lineage, or observability tooling.
  • Experience building customer-facing analytics, reporting, or insights features.
  • Familiarity with metric design and data modeling for analytics and experimentation.
  • Familiarity with Elastic Search or OLAP.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Competitive benefits package including salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, 401k plan with matching, and more.

Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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