Patreon Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure role focused on building and maintaining ML infrastructure for relevance systems at Patreon. Responsible for feature store lifecycle, live inference infrastructure, and system observability.
Responsibilities
Architect, scale, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency live inference infrastructure to support our relevance systems.
Own the end-to-end feature store lifecycle—from ingestion and transformation to production serving, ensuring high availability and consistency between online and offline features.
Design and implement observability, monitoring, and validation frameworks to detect performance gaps, latency spikes, and production drift.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners, such as product, data engineering, and trust and safety, to translate product requirements into robust, scalable infrastructure solutions.
Automate model deployment and reliability testing to improve developer velocity and ensure system stability.
Debug complex relevance systems when monitoring identifies performance bottlenecks or reliability issues.
Qualification
Make it Happen | We don’t quitWin Together | We grow as individualsAt Patreon
Required
You are energized by building '0 to 1' infrastructure systems that stand the test of time and provide a reliable foundation for the team.
You possess strong communication skills and are effective at creating clear documentation for system architectures and infrastructure strategies.
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.
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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.
