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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\nSolutions Architects at Cape lead engagements with our federal customers. They deeply understand the privacy and security challenges that Cape is solving and are passionate about bringing our technology to federal customers. Solutions Architects collaborate closely with business development, engineering, product, sales, and marketing to ensure we’re building the right thing and delivering it the right way to customers doing mission critical work. Solutions Architects must be high ownership, creative, solutions-oriented individuals who aren’t afraid to dive deep into complex problems.\nWhat You'll Work On\nOwn the engagement with a new/early customer. You’ll be boots on the ground working with our customers to understand their challenges and deploy our technology.\n\nCultivate relationships at all levels of seniority. Understand the ground-level problems we’re solving. Burn through frozen-middle bureaucracies to clear a path to success. Create and deliver executive presentations to ensure buy-in from above.\n\nWork fluidly with product and engineering to ensure product direction aligns with our customers’ on-the-ground reality. You must be able to influence cross-team members to direct the appropriate resources to customer objectives.\n\nResponsible for leading product rollout and integration at customer locations, ensuring alignment between product development and operational requirements. Must serve as the on-site technical implementation point of contact, capable of independently adapting and deploying solutions, and effectively coordinating cross-functional teams to support customer objectives.\n\nIn this role, you will need to demonstrate a high degree of interdependence. This means you’ll be empowered to make decisions and lead initiatives, but you will also know when to leverage the expertise of our engineering and product teams to ensure successful execution. We want someone who understands the difference between a good idea and a great one worth pursuing. The right person will have the judgment to know when to bet big on a concept and when to walk away, conserving resources and effort for what truly matters.\n\nExperience\nA love for building things that matter.\n\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience, including the ability to quickly develop and tailor scripts or technical solutions to meet customer deployment needs.\n\nDemonstrable understanding of networking fundamentals (IP addressing/subnetting, NAT, routing, switching, core network functions) and familiarity with network troubleshooting and diagnostic tools (e.g., Wireshark).\n\nGritty technical skills. We don’t need you to be shipping code to prod. But you enjoy automating horrible tasks as necessary to make sure we deliver for our customers.\n\nDomain experience in cyber operations, privacy, security, telecommunications or related fields.\n\nExperience in enterprise sales, especially at early stage companies focused on defense.\n\nExceptional written and verbal communication skills.\n\nAdaptive and introspective; willing to learn, guide, lead and follow.\n\nActive U.S. TS/SCI clearance.\n\nWillingness to travel up to 75%.\n\nBased in DC or North Carolina. Relocation assistance available.\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 Washington, DC is $180-220K depending on experience and interview performance.\nOur benefits include:\n401(k) match\n\nUnlimited PTO\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\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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