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. 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're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Staff Software Engineer focused on Identity and Access to support our mission.

This role is available as a hybrid (two days per week in office) in New York or San Francisco, or as fully remote in other locations.

About the Team

Patreon's Identity and Access team builds and maintains core Patreon systems related to user identity and authentication. They work on projects such as identity verification, user authentication, and account takeover detection and prevention. This team is part of Patreon’s Risk Engineering org that also includes Information Security and Safety engineering. You’ll be part of Patreon’s larger engineering organization and will work with cross functional partners such as legal, compliance, security, trust and safety, and anti-fraud.

About the Role

- 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 tes...