Job Description

Software Engineer at Cradlepoint

Overview

Cradlepoint was born in Boise and built for wireless. We are a team of authentic, hard-working, and innovative people driven by a shared vision to Connect Beyond the limits of wired networks. We help customers — big and small, across industries and around the world — utilize LTE and 5G cellular technology to connect people, places, and things, anywhere. We’re at the forefront of the Wireless WAN and 5G — the next big waves in networking — and we remain as hungry and humble as the day we started. If you’re hungry to be part of something big, come join us.

Responsibilities

How Will You Contribute to the Company?

 We at Cradlepoint are proud of our world-class SaaS platform. Our Net Cloud Manager (NCM) provides management of millions of geographically distributed devices with a massive feature set offering for Mobile, 5G, and branch solutions with advanced Analytics offerings. One of our esteemed product offerings over NCM is Private cellular networks (PCN). The Radio configuration service is a crucial part of our PCN offerings. The team manages and drives requirements and implementation for the services that are secure complete life cycle management of 4G/5G small cells. The team is also responsible for LTE/5G RAN configuration, firmware management, operational support services, and designing supplementary components like CBRS Domain Proxy, Auto Configuration Service, etc. The ideal software engineer is a technical leader with a solid understanding of cloud-based services and microservices architecture, telco technologies (LTE/5G/IoT and device management at scale.  

What Will You Do?

• Design and own life-cycle management service for 4G/5G cells and CBRS Domain Proxy

• Very hands-on writing beautiful code and quickly building prototypes

• Natural at writing unit tests and integrating into CI/CD

• Design and develop high-performant backend services with scalability in mind

• Pleasant to work with, passion for solving customer problems with a can-do attitude

• Worked on an iterative and agile software delivery process

• Collaborate closely with other cross-functional teams

• Deliver rock-solid production-ready code

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Eight plus (8+) years of experience developing backend services in distributed and cloud environments

• Bachelor and/or master’s degree in computer science or a related field of study

• Developed and maintained high performant microservices

• Solid grasp of data structures and object-oriented design

• A background in 4G/5G small cell or radio would be a huge plus

• Strong backend programming skills in golang , python, or equivalent

• Experience in Kubernetes or equivalent orchestrator platform and docker

• Experience with RESTful services and APIs 

• Experience with scaling backend services using caching technologies such as Redis

• Understanding of CI/CD

Bonus Points: 

• Knowledge of Networking stack and application protocols like HTTP, TR069 (SOAP), and NetConf

Note: Did you know that women and other marginalized groups often hold back on applying to jobs if they don’t meet 100% of all listed requirements? We don’t want you to hold back! If you don’t check every single box above but still feel like you could successfully do the work, we encourage you to apply! We’d love to connect and see how you could add to our team.

Why Cradlepoint?

At Cradlepoint, we’re one team – all in on inclusion. Celebrating the uniqueness of our individual team members across the globe helps us build diverse teams where we all can thrive. Our connected, community-focused culture enables each one of us to perform at our best and fully be ourselves.

Our Cradlepoint values drive everything we do:

• Stay humble and hungry: Be a curious learner, resilient, and competitive.

• Don’t point a finger; lend a hand: We are one team! Communicate, provide support, and lift others.

• Make a difference: Prioritize, innovate, differentiate, and think big for customer success. Make a difference in work and in our communities.

• Keep it simple: Eliminate complexity. Reduce time to value.

• Enjoy the ride: Celebrate – appreciate – grow.

• Trust, Respect, and transparency: Be ethical, data-driven, respectful, and straight shooters who share openly.

We are creating the future of global connectivity & community. Come join us. You belong here.

Compensation and Benefits at Cradlepoint 

At Cradlepoint, we know that our people are the key to our success. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to help with your individual needs and goals.  

Your Pay: 

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

• $180,253 – $233,100

Your pay also includes the opportunity for an annual bonus. This variable pay opportunity is dependent upon the attainment of agreed to goals and objectives as determined by Cradlepoint’s Senior Leadership team. Certain eligibility and pro-ration rules apply. 

Your Health: 

Cradlepoint offers excellent, competitive employee benefits, such as: subsidized, nationwide PPO medical benefit options including a low-deductible Point of Service Plan and a qualifying High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), with a generous company-provided HSA contribution. For California employees, we offer a subsidized HMO option through Kaiser. Cradlepoint also offers subsidized dental and vision coverage. 

Your Financial Security: 

We invest in both your short and long-term financial wellbeing. Cradlepoint’s 401(k) plan has a 4% company match and immediate vesting. Employees will also receive company-paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance and company-paid disability benefits. 

Your Time: 

Your work-life balance is important to us. Cradlepoint provides generous paid time off, including: 15 days of Flexible Time Off (FTO), four paid quarterly well-being days, and 11 paid annual holidays (includes nine company holidays and up to two floating holidays).  Please note that an employee’s FTO balance and floating holidays may be prorated in the first year, based on start date.   Cradlepoint also offers paid maternity-leave benefits and six weeks 100% paid family leave for all employees.  

Additional Benefits: 

Cradlepoint offers other company-paid benefits such as a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program, a free Headspace membership, LinkedIn Learning access, Talkspace mobile therapy, and volunteer paid time off.