Distinguished Engineer

About the role

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the multi-year reliability roadmap and target architectural state for the entire product portfolio.
• Invent and deliver novel engineering solutions to reduce organizational toil, maximizing engineering velocity across all services.
• Serve as the final escalation point for system crises, codifying best practices to build an organizational culture of outage prevention.
• Govern secure IaC/Platform strategy, driving enterprise-wide adoption and standardization across multi-cloud environments.
• Establish organization-wide reliability standards and Error Budget governance to align business objectives with engineering risk.
• Lead the growth and technical development of SRE and platform engineering talent across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Establish company-wide FinOps governance and capacity management to ensure sustainable, cost-efficient infrastructure growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• At least 7 years of experience in Software, Site Reliability (SRE), and Solution Architecture.
• At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, highly available system design, and design patterns.
• At least 5 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• At least 5 years of experience in Web technologies (Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks).
• At least 1 year of experience in leading and applying Generative AI/headless AI to enhance automation, code quality or operational workflow.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 6+ years defining and executing multi-year, organization-wide IaC and CI/CD strategic roadmaps.
• Industry-recognized expert in optimizing hyper-scale distributed systems and advanced cloud-native architectures.
• Executive-level success integrating SRE models (SLOs, Error Budgets) to drive cultural and process transformation across engineering divisions.
• Authority in designing and deploying holistic, cost-optimized observability platforms and advanced, metrics-driven SLO governance.
• Visionary in cloud security, establishing comprehensive security and compliance governance (Zero Trust, Secrets Mgmt).
• Globally recognized contributor to open-source or history of pioneering strategic internal platform innovation.
• Track record of designing, scaling, and operating next-generation platforms, delivering measurable 5-10x reliability and efficiency gains.
• Pioneer experience leveraging Generative/Headless AI to achieve autonomous operations and predictive reliability.

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.

Pay

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer

Schedule

This role is full-time.