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Distinguished Engineer

United States, Richmond, Virginia Employment contract 269100.00 - 307200.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 26, 2026
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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. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions. At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Job Responsibility

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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

What we offer

  • Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
  • comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits

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