Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

100% coverage of medical, dental, vision premiums

12 weeks paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Cape in the United States is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to the development of privacy-first telecommunications solutions. The ideal candidate will have over four years of software engineering experience, a passion for consumer privacy, and a strong command of relevant programming languages.

This role involves full lifecycle development, building monitoring infrastructures, and maintaining high-availability systems. Competitive compensation includes a salary range of $180,000-$230,000 depending on experience.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience is required.
• Strong familiarity with AWS services is a must.
• Experience in deploying monitoring infrastructure is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Full lifecycle development of privacy-focused telecommunications.
• Build and maintain monitoring infrastructure for reliability.
• Resolve issues proactively to ensure smooth operations.

Skills

Software engineering or SRE experience

Familiarity with AWS

Fluency in Golang, Rust, Java/Kotlin, Python

Experience with monitoring infrastructure

Experience designing high availability systems

Passion for privacy and national security

Desire to work with real-world impact

Tools

AWS

Monitoring tools

Job description

Overview

Cape is America’s privacy-first mobile carrier. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless. Cape was founded in 2022 by people who believe privacy is a fundamental right, not a luxury to be traded away. We built America’s most private and secure mobile carrier from the ground up, designing a suite of privacy and security features that no other carrier can offer. Today, Cape provides our secure network to consumers, businesses, and government agencies alike. We are scaling rapidly with the goal of giving people back control of their most personal information.

The Team

At Cape, we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement. We are relentless builders, innovating at the edge of what’s possible in telecommunications. We operate on a foundation of high trust and high expectations. As a member of our team, you will collaborate with world-class engineers, architects, and visionaries, and work across organizational lines to solve difficult problems and deliver mission-critical results for our users every day.

The Role

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Dive into a well-funded but early-stage startup. We’re in a scrappy phase, be comfortable getting a little uncomfortable.
• Reclaim some of the personal privacy we have all sacrificed as smartphone adoption has grown.
• Flex your technical skills on hard, important problems with serious implications for consumer privacy and national security.
• Push the envelope - we are using new technology in novel ways.
• Work on greenfield problems. Starting new projects from the ground up. Shaping the stack, practices, and getting the opportunity to try new tools and technologies.
• Work in person! There are no facetime requirements or set hours here, and we all take work from home days. But our default work location is our DC or NY office, and we enjoy the informal culture and serendipity that in-person work enables.

We’re offering competitive salary, benefits, and equity with early-stage upside.

Impact

• Be responsible for the full lifecycle development of our privacy-focused telecommunications and deployment infrastructure.
• Build, integrate, and maintain our instrumentation and monitoring infrastructure and tooling for improving reliability, availability, and performance.
• 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 what great software engineering practices look like.
• Balance short term critical business needs with long term product vision and roadmap.

Requirements & Qualifications

Are you the candidate we are looking for? You have the following (and likely additional attributes you bring to the role):

We list generic attributes, but there may be others you have that could make you a great fit. It doesn’t hurt to apply.

Preferred

• 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 and 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 in addition to AWS.
• Familiarity with mobile telecommunications technologies such as IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), 4G/5G core network functions, and/or multimedia protocols.
• Experience managing redundant, high availability multi-site deployments.
• Experience organizing documentation to support accreditation processes such as FedRAMP and ATOs.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation that is geo-adjusted based on your location, along with meaningful equity so you share in the value you help create. Salary range for this role in New York, New York is $180,000-$230,000 depending on experience and interview performance.

Benefits

• 401(k) match
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents, no waiting period)
• Stipends for family-forming needs and gender-affirming care
• Unlimited PTO

Culture & Values

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute.
• We believe that personal privacy and national security are not at odds, and that they can be reconciled through strong technology.
• We believe companies exist to build awesome things and take care of the people who build them.
• We hire without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status. If you are great at what you do, you belong here.

How To Apply

Click the link below to apply. We reserve the right to use unsolicited resumes from outside recruiting agencies and/or individual recruiters without payment of fees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.