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Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless. Cape was founded in 2022 by people who believe privacy is a fundamental right, not a luxury to be traded away. Our journey began when our founder recognized a critical vulnerability in our modern world: everyone relies on the same stagnant cellular infrastructure and legacy systems that track our every movement, monitor and profile our connections, and lose and sell our personal data.\nInstead of accepting the status quo, we decided to fix it. National security professionals, journalists, parents, and everyone in between can stay connected and have privacy.\nWe didn’t just build a layer on top of old tech; we built America’s most private and secure mobile carrier from the ground up. By building our own network from scratch, we are able to design and build a suite of privacy and security features that no other carrier on the planet can offer.\nToday, Cape provides our secure network to consumers, businesses, and government agencies alike. We closed our Series C in March 2026, and we are scaling rapidly, with the goal of giving people back control of their most personal information.\nThe Team\nAt Cape, we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement that is just getting started. We are relentless builders, constantly innovating at the edge of what's possible in telecommunications. We operate on a foundation of high trust and high expectations. Our structure is flat, and collaboration matters more than hierarchy. As a member of our team, you will collaborate with world-class engineers, architects, and visionaries, and work across organizational lines to solve \"impossible\" problems and deliver mission-critical results for our users every single day.\nThe Role\nTo join our team, you should be excited to:\nDive into a well-funded but early-stage startup. We’re in a scrappy phase, be comfortable getting a little uncomfortable.\n\nReclaim some of the personal privacy we have all sacrificed as smartphone adoption has grown.\n\nFlex your technical skills on hard, important problems with serious implications for consumer privacy and national security.\n\nPush the envelope - we are using new technology in novel ways.\n\nWork on greenfield problems. Starting new projects from the ground up. Shaping the stack, practices, and getting the opportunity to try new tools and technologies.\n\nWork in person! There are no facetime requirements or set hours here, and we all take work from home days. But our default work location is our DC or NY office, and we enjoy the informal culture and serendipity that in-person work enables.\n\nWe’re offering competitive salary, benefits, and equity with early-stage upside.\nWhat You'll Work On\nBe responsible for the full lifecycle development of our privacy-focused telecommunications and deployment infrastructure.\n\nBuild, integrate, and maintain our instrumentation and monitoring infrastructure and tooling for improving the reliability, availability, and performance of our system.\n\nHelp solve issues proactively before they become issues.\n\nBuild new or integrate with existing telecommunications infrastructure and components.\n\nOwn the technical accreditation and compliance process end-to-end for FedRamp.\n\nShape and influence what great software engineering practices look like.\n\nBalance short term critical business needs with long term product vision and roadmap.\n\nExperience\nAlthough we list out what we generally look for, we are likely missing other attributes and skills that you have that could make you a great fit, but are not currently listed. It doesn’t hurt to take a chance and apply!\n4+ years of software engineering or SRE experience.\n\nStrong familiarity with AWS.\n\nFluency in Golang, Rust, Java/Kotlin, Python, or similar language.\n\nExperience with building, deploying, and using monitoring infrastructure & tools.\n\nExperience designing, building, and delivering high availability systems and infrastructure.\n\nPassion for privacy and national security.\n\nA desire to work on software that has real-world impact.\n\nNice to have\nFamiliarity with Azure and/or GCP in addition to AWS.\n\nFamiliarity with mobile telecommunications technologies such as IP media subsystem (IMS), 4G/5G mobile core network functions, and/or multimedia protocols.\n\nExperience managing redundant, high availability multi-site deployments.\n\nExperience organizing documentation to support accreditation processes such as FedRamp and ATOs.\n\nCompensation\nWe offer competitive compensation that is geo-adjusted based on your location, along with meaningful equity so you share in the value you help create. Salary range for this role in New York, New York is $180,000-$230,000 depending on experience and interview performance.\nOur benefits include:\n401(k) match\n\n100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents\n\n12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents, no waiting period)\n\nStipends for\nFamily-forming needs\n\nGender-affirming care\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\nOur Culture & Values\nWe hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute. Every person at Cape has a proven track record of tackling hard problems and winning.\n\nWe believe that personal privacy and national security are not at odds, and that they can be reconciled through strong technology.\n\nWe believe companies exist to build awesome things and take care of the people who build them, so we offer top-tier healthcare, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy that our team actually uses to recharge.\n\nWe believe that a stronger company and a better product are built by people from all walks of life. We hire without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. If you are great at what you do, you belong here.\n\nHow to apply\nClick the link below to apply.\nWe reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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