Cape
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
About this role
Cape is seeking an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build and maintain the backbone of a privacy-focused mobile carrier. You'll own the full lifecycle of telecommunications infrastructure, monitoring systems, and compliance processes while working on high-impact problems in a well-funded early-stage startup.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain privacy-focused telecommunications and deployment infrastructure end-to-end
- Build instrumentation and monitoring tooling to improve system reliability, availability, and performance
- Proactively identify and resolve infrastructure issues before they impact service
- Integrate with existing and new telecommunications infrastructure components
- Lead FedRamp technical accreditation and compliance process
- Establish software engineering best practices and influence team standards
What they're looking for
- Software engineering or SRE (4+ years preferred)
- AWS expertise
- Golang, Rust, Java/Kotlin, or Python
- Monitoring infrastructure and tools
- High availability systems design
- Azure and/or GCP (nice to have)
- Mobile telecommunications technologies like IMS or 4G/5G (nice to have)
- Passion for privacy and national security
Benefits
- Competitive salary and early-stage equity upside
- Flexible work arrangements with in-person offices in DC or NY
- Opportunity to work on greenfield projects and shape technology stack
- Collaborative environment with world-class engineers and architects
- Access to mission-critical work with real-world impact on consumer privacy
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Cape
Cape builds privacy-focused mobile network infrastructure and telecommunications systems designed to protect user communications across devices and networks. The company is hiring software engineers, security engineers, forward-deployed engineers embedded with federal customers, web developers, and technical specialists to develop secure infrastructure, drive product improvements based on field needs, and ensure reliable deployment of privacy-centric mobile solutions.
View all jobs at CapeLikely interview questions
- Describe your experience building and maintaining monitoring infrastructure and instrumentation tools. What metrics and alerting strategies have you found most effective for catching issues proactively?
- Walk us through a time you designed or improved a high-availability system. What were the key reliability challenges, and how did you approach solving them?