Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Developer Productivity
Lead the Infrastructure team at Patreon to ensure fast and reliable engineering operations in a hybrid work environment.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 18 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own the roadmap and execution across the platform
- Manage and grow ICs
- Own operational excellence
- Partner closely with Product Engineering, Security, and Data leaders
Must have
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years in engineering management
- Direct experience leading infrastructure teams
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure
- Comfort operating scalable production systems
Nice to have
- Experience standing up or scaling developer tooling
- Exposure to AI-assisted software development
Practical constraints
- Hybrid work model with in-office 3 days per week for those in New York or San Francisco
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
Direct experience rolling out AI coding tools/agents at an organizational level, including adoption metrics and guardrails.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Engineering Manager for Infrastructure at Patreon, the individual will oversee the Infrastructure team, ensuring the platform remains reliable while enhancing engineering productivity. Key skills include extensive experience in engineering management, particularly with infrastructure and developer productivity, alongside familiarity with cloud services and Kubernetes. This position is suited for seasoned professionals with a strong background in managing teams and supporting large-scale consumer products. The role emphasizes collaboration with various departments to streamline infrastructure and tooling processes.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Developer Productivity role remote?
- It's hybrid — Patreon expects some on-site time in Remote.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Developer Productivity role.
- Where is the role based?
- Patreon is hiring for this position in Remote.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Patreon targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Developer Productivity role at Patreon.
From the original posting
$10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception
25 million+ paid memberships on Patreon today.
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Infrastructure & Developer Productivity teams, which are responsible for Patreon’s core infrastructure, developer productivity, and AI enablement. The team’s mission is to keep Patreon's engineering org fast, and reliable, and ready for an AI-native way of building software.
This role location is open to fully Remote or to those who are able to be in-office 3 days per week on a hybrid work model in New York or San Francisco.
About the Team
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.
About the Role
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
About You
Required:
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
Nice to Have
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.
Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win.
Patreon operates under a hybrid work model, where employees based in office locations are expected to come into the office two days per week, excluding sick time and paid leave. The goal of this policy is to be intentional about the in-person time we spend together to strengthen the feeling of community at Patreon. Candidates hired into remote-eligible roles are not expected to meet the same requirements.
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