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Cape

Software Engineer, Developer Experience

New York, NY (Remote)fulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Cape is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to build and maintain internal tools and platforms that accelerate the engineering team's productivity. You'll own the CI/CD pipelines, local development environments, AI-assisted tooling, and infrastructure that removes friction from the development workflow at a privacy-focused mobile carrier.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, local dev environments, and deployment infrastructure that minimize time-to-merge and context-switching
  • Build internal tooling, SDKs, scripts, and documentation that make complex infrastructure accessible to engineers
  • Evaluate, integrate, and configure AI coding tools while implementing guardrails for security and compliance
  • Drive reliability improvements to eliminate flaky tests, non-reproducible builds, and environment drift
  • Measure developer productivity impact through adoption metrics, build times, and quality indicators
  • Collaborate across platform, product, and security teams to understand engineering needs and iterate on solutions

What they're looking for

  • CI/CD and build systems (pipelines, artifact management, deployment orchestration)
  • Infrastructure-as-code and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Scripting and automation (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
  • Local development environment setup and configuration management
  • Testing infrastructure and test optimization
  • AI tooling integration and prompt engineering
  • Systems thinking and observability
  • Technical documentation and developer communication

Benefits

  • Work on mission-critical infrastructure at a privacy-focused company
  • Impact every engineer on the team through improved developer experience
  • Collaborate with world-class engineers on cutting-edge problems
  • Flat organizational structure with high trust and autonomy
  • Role in shaping AI-assisted development practices from the ground up
  • Rapidly scaling company with Series C funding
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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.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe a time you identified a bottleneck in a development workflow and how you measured the impact of your solution
  • How would you approach integrating AI coding tools into a codebase while maintaining security and compliance requirements?
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