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.

What You'll Work On

• 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 the 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 what great software engineering practices look like.

• Balance short term critical business needs with long term product vision and roadmap.

Experience

Although we list out what we generally look for, we are likely missing other attributes and skills that you have that could make you a great fit, but are not currently listed. It doesn’t hurt to take a chance and apply!

• 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 in addition to AWS.

• Familiarity with mobile telecommunications technologies such as IP media subsystem (IMS), 4G/5G mobile 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.

Our benefits include:

• 401(k) match

• Stipends for

  • Family-forming needs

  • Gender-affirming care

• Unlimited PTO

Our Culture & Values

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute. Every person at Cape has a proven track record of tackling hard problems and winning.

How to apply

Click the link below to apply.