Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Washington)

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Cape was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. While running Palantir’s US national security business, our CEO became passionate about privacy and security on mobile devices. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless. We are not just another cellular service provider; we are the architects of a privacy‑centric movement that starts with the devices in your pocket. We are building a cellular network that helps citizens, including those responsible for our nation’s security, regain control of their own data.

What You’ll Love

• 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 Do

• 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.

Qualifications

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!

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 & 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.

The salary range for this role is $150,000–$230,000 a year + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by location, experience, relevant education, and/or training.

Our Culture

• We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech as well as the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.
• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.
• We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.
• We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people. Our benefits reflect that– top‑tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that we actually use).
• We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.

How To Apply

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