Site Reliability Engineer

2 Months ago • All levels • DevOps

Job Summary

Job Description

Patreon seeks a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to contribute to high-impact AWS cloud infrastructure initiatives, improving platform performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Responsibilities include participating in operability and production readiness reviews, advocating for SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs), enhancing the Kubernetes developer platform, developing self-service tooling and automation, and maintaining critical infrastructure components (IaC, observability stack, Cloudflare). The role requires expertise in DevOps, SRE, or backend/infrastructure engineering, proficiency in Python and shell scripting, experience with configuration management (e.g., Terraform), and familiarity with CI/CD systems. Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential.
Must have:
  • DevOps/SRE/Backend experience
  • Proficiency in Python & Shell scripting
  • Experience with SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs)
  • Configuration management (Terraform, etc.)
  • CI/CD experience
  • Excellent communication skills
Perks:
  • Competitive benefits package
  • Equity plans
  • Healthcare
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Company holidays & recharge days
  • Commuter benefits
  • Lifestyle stipends
  • Learning & development stipends
  • Patronage
  • Parental leave
  • 401k plan with matching

Job Details

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.

Compensation Range: $178.5K - $240K

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