Site Reliability Engineer
Patreon is the best place for creators to build exclusive content and community for their fans. We enable creators (podcasters, writers, musicians, illustrators, etc) to connect with their fans directly and make money from their creative work. Creators can sell one-off items from their own shops or offer recurring monthly memberships with exclusive access to their work.
There are over 250,000 active creators earning on Patreon and over 10 million members. Our goal has always been to help creators achieve financial freedom doing what they love - and we're leaders in the space, with over $3.5 billion earned by creators on our platform. We’re continuing to invest heavily in building the most talented team in the Creator Economy and are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to support our mission.
This role is remote with optional in-person attendance in either the San Francisco or New York offices. Expect to travel a handful of times per year for team building and collaboration offsites.
About the Role
Contribute to high impact AWS cloud infrastructure initiatives to improve the performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of Patreon’s rapidly growing platform.
Participate in operability reviews and production readiness reviews to ensure the scalability, resiliency, and operability of new and existing product features.
Advocate and implement Site Reliability Engineering practices including SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs across the engineering organization to improve our operational excellence.
Enhance the feature set of our new kubernetes developer platform and work with partner teams to migrate their workloads over to it.
Provide a delightful and automated experience to our constituent teams by developing tooling and automation to facilitate self service for routine tasks.
Support and maintain critical infrastructure components including our infrastructure as code project, centralized observability stack, and Cloudflare edge.
About You
You have experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or backend/infrastructure engineering for a company experiencing fast-paced growth.
You are proficient with a programming language like Python and shell scripting.
You have hands on experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering practices (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs) and like using metrics to make data based decisions
You are knowledgeable in configuration management with a framework such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
You've worked with continuous integration and deployment systems, and have ideas about how to build and improve those systems.
Your documentation and verbal communication skills are excellent, and you're able to collaborate and rally support with people on and off your team.
You have productive habits, healthy process awareness, and good teamwork skills and instincts.
About Patreon
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 across the organization. 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.
Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.
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At Patreon, we’re on a mission to empower creators, and we’re looking for a passionate Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic team! In this remote role (with the option to connect in person in either San Francisco or New York), you’ll play a crucial part in enhancing our AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring that the platform remains robust, reliable, and cost-effective as we continue to grow. Imagine working with talented individuals who share a vision of providing creators—like podcasters, writers, and musicians—the tools they need to connect with their fans and achieve financial success. Your contributions will include conducting operability reviews to ensure our product features are scalable and resilient, advocating for SRE practices, and developing innovative automation tools that streamline developers' workflows. As someone well-versed in DevOps or infrastructure engineering, you’ll bring your expertise in programming languages like Python and your hands-on experience with configuration management to the table. At Patreon, we believe in striving for excellence together—when creators succeed, so do we. If you're excited about pushing boundaries in the Creator Economy and working with a talented, diverse team, we’d love to have you aboard. Join us in making a real difference by providing creators the freedom to do what they love while getting paid for it!
Patreon is a monetization platform headquartered in San Francisco that provides business tools for content creators to run a subscription service and sell digital products. We offer our services to hundreds of creators, musicians, developers and more
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