Software Engineer, Identity & Access

Patreon

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. They offer creators various ways to engage with fans and build a lasting business, including paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and direct sales. Patreon's goal is to fund the creative class, having generated over $10 billion for creators, with over 100 million free memberships and 25 million paid memberships. The company is heavily investing in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy. This role is for a Senior Software Engineer focused on Identity and Access to support Patreon's mission. The Identity and Access team builds and maintains core Patreon systems related to user identity and authentication, such as identity verification, user authentication, and account takeover detection and prevention. This team is part of Patreon’s Risk Engineering organization, which also includes Information Security and Safety Engineering. The role involves working within Patreon’s larger engineering organization and collaborating with cross-functional partners like legal, compliance, security, trust and safety, and anti-fraud.

Requirements

2-3+ years of experience in software development.
Experience with Python or a similar language.
Familiarity with the security and privacy concerns inherent to dealing with identity data or authentication flows.
Comfortable with data storage techniques and understand how data modeling, performance, and reliability intersect in real-world systems.
Worked on consumer-facing features where quality, experience, and emotional feel matter.
Energized by fast iteration: shipping MVPs, testing hypotheses, and evolving products based on what creators and fans respond to.
Take pride in creating elegant solutions to messy, real-world problems and balancing pragmatic trade-offs.
Believe in Patreon’s mission: giving creators control over their work and building communities that feel good to be in.
Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.

Responsibilities

Write backend/full stack code as part of Patreon’s core product.
Build and deploy user-facing systems such as multi-factor authentication flows, ID verification systems, and account takeover detections.
Engage with stakeholders to define requirements and balance a range of security, privacy, and compliance needs.
Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, designers, and other engineers to deliver high quality features.
Champion innovative solutions that improve security and usability for creators and their fans.
Contribute to growth and maturity of the team by improving processes, providing mentorship, and helping to expand the organization.