5 months ago
Base Salary
$225k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain internal developer tooling, scripts, SDKs, project scaffolding, testing utilities, and debugging aids.
- Own local development environments, including containerized setups, secrets management, service dependencies, and engineer onboarding improvements.
- Design infrastructure that enables reliable movement from code to deployed artifact across product surfaces.
- Improve CI/CD, builds, tests, and development workflows by reducing flaky tests, non-reproducible builds, slow pipelines, and environment drift.
- Evaluate, integrate, configure, and measure AI coding tools, including code completion, automated review, and agentic coding assistants.
- Build AI tooling guardrails and context systems using prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and repository-aware configurations.
- Identify developer friction, establish engineering standards, write documentation and runbooks, and measure the impact of tooling improvements.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful work on internal platforms, developer tooling, or infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to identify developer friction, build solutions, and measure improvement.
- Fluency in at least one modern backend language; Go is strongly preferred, with Python, TypeScript, or Rust also welcome.
- Hands-on experience improving and optimizing CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Buildkite, or Bazel at engineering-team scale.
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable container technologies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining infrastructure tradeoffs and writing effective documentation.
- Preferred experience includes security-constrained environments, FedRAMP, DISA STIGs, government compliance frameworks, software supply-chain security, artifact signing, SBOM generation, dependency auditing, observability tooling, rapidly scaling startup environments, or integrating AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
- Active U.S. security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one is preferred.
Benefits
- Salary for New York, New York is $225,000-$275,000 depending on experience and interview performance, with geo-adjusted compensation and meaningful equity.
- 401(k) match.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents with no waiting period.
- Stipends for family-forming needs and gender-affirming care.
- Unlimited PTO.
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About Cape
Cape builds a privacy-first mobile network in the U.S., providing cellular service that minimizes data collection and supports secure communication for consumers, businesses, and government customers. It sells subscription wireless plans and related security features, enabling organizations to deploy protected mobile connectivity without relying on legacy tracking practices. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.