Privacy-First Software Engineer for Greenfield Telecom

Cape; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave

Stipends for family-forming needs

Gender-affirming care

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Cape, a privacy-first mobile carrier, is building America’s most private network from the ground up. The team blends privacy with national security, delivering mission-critical telecom infrastructure. We operate from DC/NY with in-person collaboration and flexible work-from-home days, while offering competitive compensation and equity upside.

Join us to own complex systems, shape software practices, and drive privacy-forward deployment at scale in a scrappy startup environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering or SRE experience.
• Strong familiarity with AWS.
• Fluency in Golang, Rust, Java/Kotlin, Python, or similar language.
• Experience with building, deploying, and using monitoring infrastructure & tools.
• Experience designing, building, and delivering high availability systems and infrastructure.
• Passion for privacy and national security.
• A desire to work on software that has real-world impact.
• Nice to have familiarity with Azure and/or GCP; knowledge of IMS, 4G/5G core networks; multi-site HA deployments; FedRamp documentation exposure.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the full lifecycle development of our privacy-focused telecommunications and deployment infrastructure.
• Build, integrate, and maintain instrumentation and monitoring infrastructure and tooling for improving reliability, availability, and performance of our system.
• Help solve issues proactively before they become issues.
• Build new or integrate with existing telecommunications infrastructure and components.
• Own the technical accreditation and compliance process end-to-end for FedRamp.
• Shape and influence engineering practices.
• Balance short-term needs with long-term product vision and roadmap.

Skills

Software Engineer

SRE

AWS

Go/Rust/Java/Kotlin/Python

Monitoring tools

High availability

Privacy & security

Tools

Monitoring infrastructure

Job description

Cape, a privacy-first mobile carrier, is building America’s most private network from the ground up. The team blends privacy with national security, delivering mission-critical telecom infrastructure. We operate from DC/NY with in-person collaboration and flexible work-from-home days, while offering competitive compensation and equity upside.

Join us to own complex systems, shape software practices, and drive privacy-forward deployment at scale in a scrappy startup environment.