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Sr Distinguished Engineer

United States, McLean, Virginia 286200.00 - 359300.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 06, 2026
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As a Sr. 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. Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

Job Responsibility

  • Rapidly prototype & assess new technologies that enable hyper personalized marketing, field sales, and underwriting systems through agentic AI
  • Partner with (& influence) our enterprise & card tech organizations to help Capital One develop the best agentic marketing & sales systems on the planet
  • Establish and evangelize technical charters that will help the org more quickly adopt AI technologies
  • Bridge the gap between our current systems & the future, ensuring that existing systems remain healthy & continue to serve the business
  • Regularly clear roadblocks for developers across the org - with exceptional judgement for when to apply technical, process, or risk-acceptance solutions
  • Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
  • Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
  • Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
  • Provide architectural guidance and designs for large scale cross-domain programs
  • Working with engineering teams to design and execute PoCs and hands-on code contribution/reviews where necessary
  • Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
  • Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
  • Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
  • Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
  • At least 9 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
  • At least 3 years of experience with public or private cloud technologies

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 2+ years of experience working on applied & agentic AI systems
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to translate "Agentic AI" concepts into business value
  • 10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • 10+ years of experience coding in at least one of the following: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift
  • 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

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 that support your total well-being

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