Senior Backend Engineer, Video Platform Integration

The role

You will build scalable backend systems and reliable live video experiences for creators. This involves designing distributed services, integrating video vendor APIs, and improving platform performance.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate distributed backend services, APIs, and event-driven workflows.
• Integrate video vendor APIs and SDKs into Patreon's systems.
• Build resilient integrations that handle asynchronous events, retries, rate limits, and vendor outages.
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability across services, databases, and caching layers.
• Partner with web, mobile, product, and infrastructure teams.
• Develop monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and automated tests.
• Investigate production issues across services and video providers.
• Contribute to technical designs, vendor evaluations, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Participate in on-call, code reviews, and design discussions.

Required qualifications

• Five or more years or equivalent demonstrated expertise building and operating production backend systems.
• Strong foundations in distributed systems, API design, asynchronous processing, queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or a similar language.
• Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, data modeling, caching, and performance optimization.
• Practical experience integrating video or live streaming providers into production applications.
• Experience working with video vendor APIs, SDKs, and webhooks.
• A working understanding of video concepts such as latency, buffering, adaptive bitrate streaming, and protocols such as HLS or WebRTC.
• Ability to troubleshoot video issues using logs, metrics, and vendor diagnostic tools.
• Experience building resilient third-party integrations.
• An ownership mindset with experience testing, monitoring, debugging, and supporting systems in production.
• Ability to work through ambiguous problems and explain technical trade-offs.

Nice to have

• Integrating managed video platforms such as Amazon IVS, Mux, Cloudflare Stream, or similar providers.
• Supporting live video experiences across web or mobile.
• Building observability for video quality, session health, or third-party service reliability.
• Evaluating vendor capabilities, usage limits, and costs.

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.