# Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

**Company:** [Cape](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cape)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, JavaScript, Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-06-18

> Own internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, AI-assisted tooling, and local dev environments to make Cape engineers faster and more confident. Report to engineering leadership and partner across platform, product, and security teams.

## Job Description

## What You'll Own

### CI/CD and Build Infrastructure
- 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
- Drive reliability improvements that eliminate common failure modes: flaky tests, non-reproducible builds, slow pipelines, and environment drift
- Instrument and measure the development pipeline end-to-end — establish baselines, track trends, and surface bottlenecks

### Developer Tooling and Environments
- 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

### AI Tooling and AI-Assisted Development
- Own Cape’s AI-assisted development strategy - evaluate, integrate, and configure AI coding tools (code completion, automated review, agentic coding assistants)
- 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
- Measure the productivity impact of AI tooling rigorously - track adoption, code acceptance rates, time savings, and quality metrics
- Stay ahead of the rapidly evolving AI development tooling landscape

### Platform Reliability and Security Constraints
- Build developer tooling within Cape's security and compliance constraints — FedRAMP-adjacent controls
- 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
- Own the reliability and operational health of internal developer platforms — treat them like production systems

### Engineering Culture and Standards
- Identify patterns of friction across the engineering organization through observation, surveys, and direct partnership with teams
- Contribute to engineering standards around testing, code review, and deployment practices
- Set a high bar for the developer experience through your own work

## Requirements
- Proven track record of tackling hard problems
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and internal platforms
- Strong understanding of containerization, secrets management, and local development environments
- Experience with AI coding tools and agentic development workflows
- Ability to work within security and compliance constraints (FedRAMP-adjacent controls)
- Excellent documentation and communication skills

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