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Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Cape· Engineering
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Hybrid (Hybrid: New York, NY)$225k - $275kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer focused on Developer Experience at Cape, owning internal platforms, tooling, and workflows to accelerate engineering velocity and reduce friction across CI/CD, local development, AI-assisted development, test infrastructure, and release processes.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain internal tooling, scripts, and SDKs used by Cape engineers (project scaffolding, local dev setup, testing utilities, debugging aids)
  • Own the local development environment stack (containerized setups, secrets management, service dependencies, onboarding time)
  • Evaluate, introduce, instrument adoption, and deprecate tools as needed
  • Write documentation and runbooks for complex infrastructure
  • Design and implement infrastructure enabling fast, reliable code-to-deploy workflows across product surfaces
  • Drive reliability improvements (flaky tests, non-reproducible builds, slow pipelines, environment drift)
  • Own AI-assisted development strategy: evaluate/integrate/configure AI coding tools with security/compliance in mind
  • Build guardrails/context systems for AI tooling (prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, repository-aware configs)
  • Measure productivity impact of AI tooling (adoption, code acceptance, time savings, quality)
  • Stay ahead of AI tooling landscape and advise leadership on what to adopt/build/avoid
  • Identify friction points across engineering and help eliminate them
  • Contribute to engineering standards for testing, code review, deployment
  • Set high bar for developer experience via maintainable, dependable tooling

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience with internal platforms, developer tooling, or infrastructure
  • Track record of identifying developer friction, building solutions, and measuring improvement
  • Fluency in at least one modern backend language (Go 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
  • Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining infra tradeoffs and documenting effectively

Skills

Required:Backend developmentCI/CDContainerization and orchestration

Benefits

  • 401(k) match
  • 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and dependents
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents)
  • Stipends for family-forming needs and gender-affirming care
  • Unlimited PTO
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Cape is premium wireless coverage with an added layer of personal security.

Cape is premium wireless coverage with an added layer of personal security. Talk, text, and live with the confidence that you’re protected.

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