Senior Software Engineer, Internal Tooling

RevenueCat gives app businesses the infrastructure and tools to build, run, and improve their monetization. Since graduating from YC's S18 batch, we've grown into the default monetization platform for mobile.

We're in 50%+ of newly shipped subscription apps, we process $16B+ in annual purchase volume, and we help everyone from a solo developer to the OpenAI mobile team understand and grow their revenue.

We're a remote-first team of 150+ people across 25+ countries, guided by values we actually practice: Customer Obsession, Always Be Shipping, Own It, and Balance.

This isn't the right fit for everyone. The systems you’ll build here manage billions of dollars and touch hundreds of millions of end users, and we don’t take that lightly. You'll be expected to work hard and hold a high bar for what you ship, alongside some of the sharpest, most driven people you've worked with. If that sounds energizing rather than exhausting, keep reading.

01The role

We are looking for a Senior, proactive Software Engineer to join our Devops/Devex engineering team and help building and scaling the internal development platform. You would be building the tools, services and automations 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, VPN access workflows. We are using Pulumi and python for IaC to describe k8s services and associated infrastructure in a single place. We want to provide autonomy, build a self-serve culture that allows teams to move fast but ensures safety and best practices.

The advent of IA and agentic development is going to change a lot of things, and you will help shape this future fostering adoption while ensuring our security and architectural standards remain sane.

Your job is to take all this to the next level.

02About 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 own problems to turn them into solutions.

• You love building frameworks, abstractions and automation: You see that the best way to ensure best practices are follow is to make something so easy and joyfull 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.

03Preferred Experience

• Experience with AWS cloud, k8s, docker, IaC, github.

• Solid knowledge of Python

04In 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.

05Within the first 3 months, you'll

• Be able to scope and work on tasks self-sufficiently.

• Understand most of our internals tools and feel confident making changes to them.

• Start oncall training.

• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, brainstorms.

06Within the first 6 months, you'll

• Design and ship major initiatives and have a positive impact in the engineering team.

• Collaborate closely with other engineers, creating ties, understanding their painpoints and starting to become more involve in the roadmap and prioritization of new initiatives.

07Within 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-stablished patterns for safety and simplicity.

08What 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

• A fully remote environment designed around autonomy and flexibility

• 4-5 weeks of flexible time off annually

• Paid desk at a co-working space

• Workspace budget and continuous learning stipend

09Interviewing at RevenueCat

Our interview process is rigorous on purpose. We want to be sure that everyone we bring on is genuinely excited about this work, aligned with how we operate, and ready to meet our high bar for performance. Curious what that actually looks like? Read more in our blog post on how we hire at RevenueCat, including tips to help you succeed.

10More on how we work

• How we think about hiring and team design: Building a Winning Team

• The values that guide how we work: Our Values

• How we work as a remote team: How We Work Remotely at RevenueCat

• What to expect from our interview process: Interview Expectations

• What to expect from comp and employment: Employment FAQ