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