Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Own and continuously improve Cape's continuous integration and deployment pipelines — build times, flakiness rates, parallelism, caching, and test isolation are your KPIs

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

Instrument and measure the development pipeline end-to-end — establish baselines, track trends, and surface bottlenecks before engineers have to ask

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

Own Cape’s AI-assisted development strategy - evaluate, integrate, and configure AI coding tools (code completion, automated review, agentic coding assistants) so engineers get high-quality suggestions that respect our security and compliance requirements

Build guardrails and context systems that make AI tools effective in Cape’s codebase - prompt engineering for internal tooling, retrieval-augmented generation over internal docs, and repository-aware configurations that keep AI suggestions relevant and safe

Measure the productivity impact of AI tooling rigorously - track adoption, code acceptance rates, time savings, and quality metrics to separate hype from genuine acceleration

Stay ahead of the rapidly evolving AI development tooling landscape and bring informed recommendations to engineering leadership on what to adopt, what to build internally, and what to avoid

Build developer tooling within Cape's security and compliance constraints — our government customers require FedRAMP-adjacent controls, and developer workflows must be designed with that reality in mind from the start

Partner with security engineering to ensure that developer tooling doesn't become an attack surface — secrets handling, artifact signing, dependency provenance, and supply chain integrity are first-class concerns

Own the reliability and operational health of internal developer platforms — treat them like production systems, because to the engineers depending on them, they are

Identify patterns of friction across the engineering organization through observation, surveys, and direct partnership with teams - then prioritize and eliminate them

Contribute to engineering standards around testing, code review, and deployment practices that help Cape's engineers ship with speed and confidence

Set a high bar for the developer experience through your own work - write code that other engineers will be glad to depend on

We 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.

We believe that personal privacy and national security are not at odds, and that they can be reconciled through strong technology.

We 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.

We 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.