Cape
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
New York
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$275kDetected 110 days ago
TypeScriptAWSAzureCybersecurityBusiness DevelopmentExcelLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- Cape's platform gives customers end-to-end control of their digital identity, even as they connect to untrusted networks, optimizing for resiliency, privacy, and security at every turn.
- As the Head of Federal Engineering, you will gain rare insight into the world's most challenging environments.
- Your leadership will directly translate our privacy-first ethos into capabilities that protect and empower those in public service.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a world-class team of engineers dedicated to solving the nation's toughest Command and Control challenges.
- You will foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and unwavering integrity, empowering your team to deliver solutions that meet the highest standards of excellence and impact.
- Understanding of cryptographic systems and how to design privacy conscious solutions.
Requirements
- Proven ability to learn continuously, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.
- The ability to take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering.
- The ability to work collaboratively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals and understand how technical decisions impact the customer.
- The ability to learn new technology and concepts, even without in-depth experience.
- Experience with both cloud (e.g., AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) as well as air-gapped environments, and familiarity with federal security compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, RMF, STIGs) is helpful.
- Proven ability to define a technical strategy and execute against it, aligning engineering efforts with both customer mission objectives and broader business goals.
- You are a mentor and a force-multiplier, dedicated to growing the next generation of engineering leaders and fostering a culture where every individual can do their best work in service of the mission.
- You are more than a technical leader
- you are a diplomat and a strategist.
Nice to have
- An active U.S. Top Secret (TS) security clearance is strongly preferred.
- At a minimum, you must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Skills
- Skill and comfort working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
Compensation
- 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.
Benefits
- Architect and execute the technical vision for our federal engineering organization, building the secure, resilient, and scalable network and platform that our nation's most critical missions depend on.
- The ability to balance a forward-looking vision with the concrete realities of government requirements and constraints.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
Company info
- At 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.
- The commercial cellular network represents trillions of dollars in private investment worldwide.
- It is performant, highly available, near ubiquitous, and the spec is mature and well understood.
- It's the perfect transport layer for government use cases, if only they could trust the network.
- But they cannot: that infrastructure is easily disrupted and surveilled, and existing solutions are typically clunky, proprietary, and fail at the first sign of a contested RF environment.
- Cape started at first principles to build a secure network architecture that operates through assumed compromised physical infrastructure.
- Now we need to solve operational capabilities at scale.
- How do we provide security-first, resilient communications for operators at the tactical edge?
- How do we ensure connectivity without compromise when the backhaul is being actively jammed, intercepted, or physically severed?
- We are moving from validated technology to mission-critical infrastructure that works in contested environments when failure is not an option.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Top Secret (TS) security clearance is strongly preferred
This listing is sourced directly from Cape's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.