Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Developer Productivity
- Location
- New York, NY (Remote)
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- cloud infrastructure AWS/GCP
- Kubernetes
- infrastructure-as-code
Also useful
- CI/CD
- AI coding tools rollout
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.
About Patreon
Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.
Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with:
- $10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception
- 100 million+ free memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and
- 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 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 because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide. 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 offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.
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.
At Patreon, we believe in fair and transparent pay. In compliance with New York and California pay transparency laws, we are sharing the expected salary range for this role.
The posted salary range is dependent on the location and the level. This range may encompass multiple levels within the role’s job family. The final offer will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, competencies, and geographic location, aligning with the appropriate job level within Patreon’s leveling framework. For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions.
Patreon reserves the right to modify or update compensation and benefits at any time.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
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. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accommodations@patreon.
From Patreon's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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