Director of Platform Engineering

The role

You will lead multiple Platform and Infrastructure Engineering teams responsible for core infrastructure and platform services. You will own the technical strategy and roadmap for scaling the platform and partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure reliability and scalability.

What you will do

• Lead and grow multiple Platform & Infrastructure Engineering teams
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for scaling the platform
• Drive platform initiatives for backend services, APIs, reliability, scalability, and developer tooling
• Partner with product engineering teams to enable faster feature delivery
• Establish strong operational excellence including on-call, incident response, SLAs, and SLOs
• Hire, develop, and mentor senior engineering managers and technical leaders
• Communicate with executives and cross-functional partners about risks, tradeoffs, and platform investments

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years in engineering management
• Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational backend teams
• Proven track record scaling a consumer product, UGC platform, or marketplace to millions of users
• Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
• Experience operating production systems with high availability and performance requirements

Nice to have

• 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

Benefits

• Salary
• Equity plans
• Healthcare
• Flexible time off
• Company holidays and recharge days
• Commuter benefits
• Lifestyle stipends
• Learning and development stipends
• Patronage
• Parental leave
• 401k plan with matching

About the company

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. The company's goal is to fund the creative class.