Senior Platform Engineer, Privacy‑First Product Platform

Cape; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Parental leave

Vacation policy

Stipends for family-forming needs

Job summary

Cape in NYC is seeking an experienced Senior/Staff backend engineer to own architecture across Identity & Access, Subscriber Lifecycle, Provisioning, Billing, Reporting, Spam Protection, and Voicemail.

You will collaborate with Product, Mobile, and SRE teams to enable new features, re-architect services as we scale, and build highly available systems with Postgres, Redis, and streaming data pipelines. The role offers equity and geo-adjusted compensation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and operating scalable backend systems in one or more modern languages (we're primarily a Go shop).
• A strong foundation in Computer Science - algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems demonstrated through the systems you've built.
• Hands-on distributed systems experience: you've designed and operated services that communicate through queues and async workflows, and you know idempotency, retries, and schema migrations from production experience.
• Experience leading a significant re-architecture or migration on a live system, end to end.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - you work through designs and decisions in writing and bring others along.

Responsibilities

• Enable Scale: Build reliable, extensible systems that let us grow in features, users, and engineers including re-architecting existing services and migrating live flows onto new systems safely.
• Own the Lifecycle: Take full ownership of features that span multiple foundational components from problem discovery through design, deployment, and operations.
• Raise the Bar: Make safe change the default - end-to-end testing, continuous deployment, zero-downtime migrations, and hold a high standard through design and code review.
• Collaborate: Work closely with Product, Mobile, SRE, and Design to shape features and the infrastructure they run on, bringing stakeholders along through clear written proposals.
• Mentor: Grow the engineers around you through pairing, review, and written designs, transferring ownership of what you build.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Algorithms & data structures

Communication skills

Leadership

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Streaming materialized views

Data lake

Job description

Cape in NYC is seeking an experienced Senior/Staff backend engineer to own architecture across Identity & Access, Subscriber Lifecycle, Provisioning, Billing, Reporting, Spam Protection, and Voicemail.

You will collaborate with Product, Mobile, and SRE teams to enable new features, re-architect services as we scale, and build highly available systems with Postgres, Redis, and streaming data pipelines. The role offers equity and geo-adjusted compensation.