Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About Cape: Cape is America’s privacy-first mobile carrier. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless. Founded in 2022, we believe privacy is a fundamental right, not a luxury. We built our own network from the ground up to eliminate tracking, profiling, and data exploitation inherent in legacy systems. Today, Cape serves consumers, businesses, and government agencies, providing unmatched privacy and security. We closed our Series C in March 2026 and are scaling rapidly to give people control over their personal information.

The Team

At Cape, we’re driving a privacy-centric movement. We’re relentless builders, innovating at the edge of telecommunications with a high-trust, high-expectation culture. Our flat structure prioritizes collaboration over hierarchy. You’ll work alongside world-class engineers and visionaries, solving "impossible" problems and delivering mission-critical results daily.

About the Role

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Dive into a well-funded but early-stage startup—embrace the scrappy phase.
• Reclaim personal privacy sacrificed in the smartphone era.
• Tackle hard, high-impact problems with implications for consumer privacy and national security.
• Push technological boundaries using new tools in novel ways.
• Work on greenfield projects, shaping the stack and practices from the ground up.
• Work primarily in-person at our DC or NY office, with flexibility for remote days.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle development of our privacy-focused telecommunications and deployment infrastructure.
• Build, integrate, and maintain instrumentation, monitoring, and tooling to improve system reliability, availability, and performance.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues before they escalate.
• Develop or integrate telecommunications infrastructure and components.
• Lead the technical accreditation and compliance process for FedRamp end-to-end.
• Define and champion best practices in software engineering.
• Balance short-term business needs with long-term product vision and roadmap.

Requirements

While we outline preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply even if your skills aren’t listed—you might be the perfect fit.

• Preferred:
  • 4+ years of software engineering or SRE experience.
  • Strong familiarity with AWS.
  • Fluency in Golang, Rust, Java/Kotlin, Python, or similar languages.
  • Experience building, deploying, and using monitoring infrastructure and tools.
  • Experience designing and delivering high-availability systems.
  • Passion for privacy and national security.
  • Desire to work on software with real-world impact.
• Nice to have:
  • Familiarity with Azure and/or GCP in addition to AWS.
  • Experience with mobile telecommunications technologies (e.g., IMS, 4G/5G core network functions, multimedia protocols).
  • Experience managing redundant, high-availability multi-site deployments.
  • Experience organizing documentation for accreditation processes like FedRamp and ATOs.

Pay

Competitive, geo-adjusted compensation with meaningful equity. Salary range for this role in New York, New York: $180,000–$230,000, depending on experience and interview performance.

Benefits

• 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 and gender-affirming care.
• Unlimited PTO.

Our Culture & Values

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute.
• We believe privacy and national security can coexist through strong technology.
• We prioritize building awesome products and taking care of our team with top-tier healthcare, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy.
• We value diversity and hire without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status.