Hiring: Software Engineer, Developer Experience Company: Cape Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-13 12:47:29 Target Skills & Keywords : Bazel, CI/CD, Docker, Embedded Systems, FedRAMP, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Python, Rust, SBOM, Security Clearance, TypeScript About the job Experience: •4+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on internal platforms, developer tooling, or infrastructure •A track record of identifying developer friction, building solutions, and measuring the improvement — not just shipping tooling •Fluency in at least one modern backend language — Go is strongly preferred; Python, TypeScript, or Rust also welcome •Hands-on experience improving and optimizing CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Bazel, or similar) at engineering-team scale •In-depth knowledge of containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, or other containers. Required Skills: •Cape's engineering team is small by design and ambitious by nature. We build cryptographic primitives, 5G core network functions, zero-trust edge systems, and threat detection pipelines — problems that don't have StackOverflow answers. The people doing that work deserve an environment that gets out of their way. •Work across the full engineering organization — embedded closely with platform, product, and security teams — and report to engineering leadership. Your impact will be felt by every engineer at Cape. •Build and maintain the internal tooling, scripts, and SDKs that Cape engineers use daily — from project scaffolding and local dev setup to testing utilities and debugging aids •Own the local development environment story: containerized setups, secrets management, service dependencies, and onboarding time for new engineers •Evaluate and introduce new tools thoughtfully — instrument adoption, gather feedback, and deprecate what isn't working •Write the documentation and runbooks that make complex infrastructure accessible to engineers who shouldn't need to become infrastructure experts to use it •Design and implement infrastructure that enables engineers to go from code to deployed artifact quickly and with high confidence, regardless of which product surface they're working on •Drive reliability improvements that eliminate common failure modes: flaky tests, non-reproducible builds, slow pipelines, and environment drift between local and CI Qualifications: •Operational familiarity with software supply chain security: artifact signing (Sigstore, Cosign), SBOM generation, dependency auditing •Background in observability tooling: distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, and making complex systems legible to engineers •Active U.S. security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one Compensation: •$225,000 - $275,000 / year •We offer competitive compensation that is geo-adjusted based on your location, along with meaningful equity so you share in the value you help create Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!