Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Patreon is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead its Infrastructure and Developer Productivity teams. The role owns their roadmap and execution, operational excellence, and AI-enablement strategy to support reliable systems and help engineers build and ship software effectively.
Responsibilities
- You'll own the roadmap and execution across infrastructure and developer productivity. Balancing "keep the site up" reliability work with "make every engineer faster" investment — including Patreon's push to make AI-assisted development a durable part of how the org ships code
- Manage and grow ICs; own hiring, performance, and career development for your org
- Own operational excellence: observability standards, on-call structure, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and Production Readiness Reviews (PRR)
- Partner closely with Product Engineering, Security, and Data leaders so infrastructure and tooling decisions don't become a bottleneck for product delivery
- Drive the org's AI-enablement strategy — deciding where to standardize tooling/workflows and where to let teams choose their own path
Skills
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management, ideally with experience managing managers or senior ICs across multiple teams
- Direct experience leading infrastructure, platform, or developer-productivity teams supporting a consumer product at scale
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Comfort operating scalable production systems with high availability and performance requirements
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills; you'll work daily with Product Engineering, Security, and Data leads
- Experience standing up or scaling developer tooling (CI/CD, testing platforms, internal dev environments)
- Exposure to AI-assisted software development
- Direct experience rolling out AI coding tools/agents at an organizational level, including adoption metrics and guardrails
Benefits
- Equity
- Healthcare
- Flexible time off
- Company holidays and recharge days
- Commuter benefits
- Lifestyle stipends
- Learning and development stipends
- Patronage
- Parental leave
- 401k plan with matching
- Fully remote work, or a hybrid work model with 3 days per week in-office in New York or San Francisco
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