Senior Platform Engineer at Series C Startup - DevEx in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Platform Engineering is one of the hottest specializations in DevOps right now, and this role is well-positioned in that space. Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), developer experience tooling, and self-serve infrastructure are in extremely high demand across the industry — skills built here translate directly to FAANG, scale-ups, and consultancy roles.
Company stage signals: RevenueCat is Series C, YC-backed, processing $12B+ in annual purchase volume with 150+ employees. This is late-stage startup territory — past the chaos of early stages but still with meaningful equity upside and the ability to own significant initiatives. The 10-year equity exercise window is a genuinely rare and employee-friendly benefit worth noting.
Skills you'll develop:
- Pulumi-based IaC at scale (Python) — niche but highly marketable
- Kubernetes platform engineering and internal tooling
- AI/LLM tooling integration into engineering workflows — a fast-growing, future-proof skill set
- Canary deployments, feature flags, and CI/CD automation at production scale
Work-life balance signals: "Balance" is one of RevenueCat's four stated core values, and the suggested 4–5 weeks PTO backs this up. On-call is introduced gradually (month 3), not immediately, suggesting a measured onboarding approach.
Green flags: Strong existing tooling foundation, clear 30/60/90/12-month expectations, and an engineering culture that values autonomy and self-serve over micromanagement. Watch for: No published salary range — negotiate carefully using market data for senior DevOps/Platform roles ($160k–$220k USD equivalent at this company stage).
RevenueCat removes the headaches of building and scaling in-app subscriptions. Since graduating from YC's S18 batch we've grown into the default monetization platform for mobile: we're in >40% of newly shipped subscription apps, we process $12B+ in annual purchase volume, and we help everyone from a solo dev in Brazil to the OpenAI mobile team understand and grow their revenue.
We're a remote-first crew of 150+, spread across 25+ countries, and guided by values we actually practice: Customer Obsession, Always Be Shipping, Own It, and Balance. If you want your work to touch hundreds of millions of end-users (and help the developers behind them get paid), you'll fit right in.
The role:
We are looking for a Senior, proactive DevOps / DevEx Engineer to join our engineering team and help build and scale the internal development platform. You would be building the tools, services, and automation that empower the rest of our engineering team to ship safely and fast.
RevenueCat invests heavily in tooling. We already have custom services for CI/CD, automated one-push-per-commit releases with automatic canaries, Feature Flags, DB query approval workflows, and VPN access workflows. We use Pulumi and Python for IaC to describe Kubernetes services and associated infrastructure in a single place. We want to provide autonomy and build a self-serve culture that allows teams to move fast while ensuring safety and best practices.
The advent of AI and agentic development is going to change a lot of things, and you will help shape this future by fostering adoption while ensuring our security and architectural standards remain sound.
About you:
You are a builder: You don't just use tools; you build them. You have 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, DevEx, or Platform Engineering with a heavy emphasis on software development.
You are proactive: You see what is needed, you take action, and you own problems to turn them into solutions.
You love building frameworks, abstractions, and automation: You believe the best way to ensure best practices are followed is to make something so easy and joyful to use that nobody wants to use anything else.
You are AI-curious: You understand how LLMs and AI coding tools are changing engineering and want to help a world-class team leverage them effectively.
You move fast, test and iterate quickly.
Preferred Experience:
Experience with AWS cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, IaC, and GitHub
Solid knowledge of Python
In the first month, you'll:
Meet your team!
Get up to speed on our unique infrastructure-as-code patterns.
Familiarize yourself with our existing internal tools for releases, canaries, and access control.
Ship your first project — improving an existing tool or automation.
Within the first 3 months, you'll:
Be able to scope and work on tasks self-sufficiently.
Understand most of our internal tools and feel confident making changes to them.
Start on-call training.
Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and brainstorms.
Within the first 6 months, you'll:
Design and ship major initiatives and have a positive impact on the engineering team.
Collaborate closely with other engineers, understanding their pain points and becoming more involved in the roadmap and prioritization of new initiatives.
Within the first 12 months, you'll:
Be the go-to expert for our internal platforms, services, and infrastructure abstractions.
Have your own initiatives for improving DevOps and DevEx.
Lead AI tool adoption across the engineering org, following well-established patterns for safety and simplicity.
What we offer:
Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator
10-year window to exercise vested equity options
Fully remote and flexible work environment
4–5 weeks of suggested time off annually for mental, physical, and emotional recharge
$2,000 USD for workspace setup and $1,000 USD annual stipend for continuous learning
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