Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

About the role

Cape is a privacy-first mobile carrier founded in 2022 by individuals committed to privacy as a fundamental right. The company aims to provide secure and private mobile services, focusing on building its own network from scratch to offer unique privacy and security features.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve Cape's continuous integration and deployment pipelines, ensuring build times, flakiness rates, parallelism, caching, and test isolation are optimized.
• Drive reliability improvements by eliminating common failure modes such as flaky tests, non-reproducible builds, slow pipelines, and environment drift between local and CI.
• Instrument and measure the development pipeline end-to-end, establishing baselines, tracking trends, and identifying bottlenecks before they affect engineers.
• Build and maintain internal tooling, scripts, and SDKs used by engineers daily, including project scaffolding, local dev setup, testing utilities, and debugging aids.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools thoughtfully, gathering feedback and deprecating what isn't working.
• Write documentation and runbooks to make complex infrastructure accessible to engineers who don't need to become infrastructure experts.
• Own the local development environment story, including containerized setups, secrets management, service dependencies, and onboarding time for new engineers.
• Own the reliability and operational health of internal developer platforms, treating them like production systems.
• Work across the full engineering organization, collaborating with platform, product, and security teams.
• Implement AI-assisted development strategies, integrating AI coding tools that respect security and compliance requirements, and measure productivity impacts rigorously.
• Identify patterns of friction across the engineering organization, set high standards for the developer experience, and contribute to engineering standards around testing, code review, and deployment practices.

Requirements

The ideal candidate should have:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in software development, preferably in a similar role at a startup or early-stage company.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies and architectures.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and techniques.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Passion for privacy and security in technology.

Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred:

• Experience with FedRAMP-adjacent controls and security compliance.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Experience with machine learning and natural language processing.
• Experience with agile methodologies and DevOps practices.

Skills

Essential skills include:

• CI/CD pipeline management.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Automation and scripting.
• Cloud-native technologies.
• AI and machine learning.

Benefits

Cape offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 401(k) match
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents, no waiting period)
• Stipends for family-forming needs
• Gender-affirming care
• Unlimited PTO

Pay

The salary range for this role in New York, New York is $225,000-$275,000 depending on experience and interview performance.

Schedule

Cape operates on a flexible schedule to accommodate the needs of its employees.