Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Patreon•San Francisco, CA

2d•$296,000 - $444,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Patreon is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the teams responsible for the core infrastructure and platform services that power Patreon's product and ecosystem. This role is ideal for a senior engineering leader who has scaled a consumer, UGC, or marketplace platform to millions of users, led infrastructure and/or platform teams supporting product engineering at scale, and operated in environments with high availability, bursty traffic, and complex distributed systems. The successful candidate will partner closely with Product, Security, Data, and Product Engineering leaders to ensure Patreon's platform is reliable and scalable. This role is based in New York or San Francisco and operates on a hybrid work model, requiring employees to be in the office two days per week.

Requirements

10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management, or equivalent demonstrated leadership experience
Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational backend teams
Demonstrated experience scaling a consumer product, UGC platform, or marketplace to millions of users
Experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures in a production environment
Experience operating production systems with high availability and performance requirements

Nice To Haves

Background in developer platforms, internal tooling, or platform abstractions
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), data pipelines, and event-driven systems
Experience leading through major architectural transitions or scale inflection points

Responsibilities

Lead 2–3 Platform & Infrastructure teams encompassing backend services, databases, and reliability foundations.
Own roadmap and execution strategy for your teams, aligned to org-wide and business goals.
Drive platform initiatives across core backend services, service reliability, performance and scalability.
Partner closely with Product, Security, Data, and peer engineering leaders.
Develop and mentor engineering managers directly reporting to you.
Contribute to area-wide multi-year strategy alongside the Director.
Produce written and verbal updates to the Director and cross-functional partners on risks, tradeoffs, and platform investment decisions.