Senior Software Engineer, Data

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.

• 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, 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.

• 4+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years of experience 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, Big Query) and production data stores such as relational (eg: MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL), object (eg: S3), key‑value (eg: Dynamo
  
  DB) 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.

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,…