Capital One · 5 days ago
Senior Director, Distinguished Engineer (CORE)
Richmond, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$315K/yr - $359K/yr
9+ years expCapital One is a financial services company seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer to define the future of banking in the cloud. In this role, you will lead technical innovation, mentor talent, and influence engineering direction across product lines, specializing in observability and AI technologies.
BankingCredit CardsFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
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
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
Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
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
Additional responsibilities added at hiring manager’s discretion
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 9 years of experience in general software, software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns
At least 9 years of experience in full ML development lifecycle using AI and ML frameworks
At least 9 years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
At least 9 years of experience in data architecture
Preferred
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating observability solutions for large-scale, distributed, and highly available systems
5+ years of experience with Open Source Observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana etc. Experience with emerging observability trends and technologies, such as eBPF, zero-code instrumentation, or AI/ML-driven anomaly detection is a plus
3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
Benefits
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Lo Li
CTO, Managing Vice President Retail Bank
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
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