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Site Reliability Engineer

Cape
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 2/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025

The Company

Cape was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. While running Palantir's US national security business, our CEO became passionate about privacy and security on mobile devices. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless.

At Cape, we are not just another cellular service provider; we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement that starts with the devices in your pocket. We are building a cellular network that helps citizens, including those responsible for our nation's security, regain control of their own data.

We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with are among our most personal information and should be kept private. Privacy is not something you achieve by limiting yourself or by doing less, it is a set of features to be built so you can do more. We have raised money from Andreessen Horowitz and other top-tier VCs, and are excited to grow the team.

The Team

We are relentless builders, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible and bringing to life ideas that have never before existed. Innovation is at the core of everything we do. At Cape, we trust our team to deliver greatness and empower them to make a profound impact. As a member of our team, you will collaborate seamlessly with our diverse group of talented engineers and other team members, enjoying dynamic interactions with colleagues from across the organization.

The Role

To join our team, you should be excited to :

  • Dive into a well-funded but early-stage startup. We're in a scrappy phase, be comfortable getting a little uncomfortable.
  • Reclaim some of the personal privacy we have all sacrificed as smartphone adoption has grown.
  • Flex your technical skills on hard, important problems with serious implications for consumer privacy and national security.
  • Push the envelope - we are using new technology in novel ways.
  • Work on greenfield problems. Starting new projects from the ground up. Shaping the stack, practices, and getting the opportunity to try new tools and technologies.
  • Work 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.

We're offering competitive salary, benefits, and equity with early-stage upside.

What you'll do

  • Be responsible for the full lifecycle development of our privacy-focused telecommunications and deployment infrastructure.
  • Build, integrate, and maintain our instrumentation and monitoring infrastructure and tooling for improving the reliability, availability, and performance of our system.
  • Help solve issues proactively before they become issues.
  • Build new or integrate with existing telecommunications infrastructure and components.
  • Own the technical accreditation and compliance process end-to-end for FedRamp.
  • Shape and influence what great software engineering practices look like.
  • Balance short term critical business needs with long term product vision and roadmap.
  • Qualifications

    Although 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!

    Preferred

  • 4 years of software engineering or SRE experience.
  • Strong familiarity with AWS.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks, such as Terraform or CDK / CloudFormation.
  • Experience with Kubernetes.
  • Experience with building, deploying, and using monitoring infrastructure & tools.
  • Experience designing, building, and delivering high availability systems and infrastructure.
  • Passion for privacy and national security.
  • A desire to work on software that has real-world impact.
  • Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Azure and / or GCP in addition to AWS.
  • Familiarity with mobile telecommunications technologies such as IP media subsystem (IMS), 4G / 5G mobile core network functions, and / or multimedia protocols.
  • Experience managing redundant, high availability multi-site deployments.
  • Experience organizing documentation to support accreditation processes such as FedRamp and ATOs.
  • The salary range for this role is $150,000-$230,000 a year equity 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and / or training.

    Our Culture

  • We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech as well as the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.
  • We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.
  • We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.
  • We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people. Our benefits reflect that- top-tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that we actually use).
  • We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.
  • How to apply

    Click the link below to apply.

    We 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.

    Salary : $150,000 - $230,000

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