Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on Identity and Access to provide technical leadership on projects related to user identity and authentication, ensuring security and usability for creators and their fans.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership on a range of identity and access related projects
• Design, build, and deploy core Patreon systems such as multi-factor authentication flows, ID verification systems, and account takeover detections
• Engage with stakeholders to define requirements and balance a range of security, privacy, and compliance needs
• Drive technical design of components that are scalable, well tested, and are easy to maintain
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, designers, and other engineers to deliver high quality features
• Champion innovative solutions that improve security and usability for creators and their fans
• Contribute to growth and maturity of the team by improving processes, providing mentorship, and helping to expand the organization

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in software development
• Strong experience with Python or a similar language
• Experience designing and building identity or authentication systems
• Familiarity with the security and privacy concerns inherent to dealing with identity data or authentication flows
• Comfortable with data storage techniques and understand how data modeling, performance, and reliability intersect in real-world systems
• Worked on consumer-facing features where quality, experience, and emotional feel matter
• Energized by fast iteration: shipping MVPs, testing hypotheses, and evolving products based on what creators and fans respond to
• Take pride in creating elegant solutions to messy, real-world problems and balancing pragmatic trade-offs
• Build a strong product-minded engineering culture by mentoring and guiding engineers
• Believe in Patreon's mission: giving creators control over their work and building communities that feel good to be in
• Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent