Capital One · 11 hours ago
Sr. Distinguished Engineer
McLean, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$315K/yr - $359K/yr
9+ years expCapital One is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking a Sr. Distinguished Engineer for their Data Storage and Consumption platform team. This role involves leading technical initiatives to enhance the scalability and performance of consumption platforms used across the organization, while also mentoring and influencing engineering practices.
BankingCredit CardsFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Have a software engineering/problem solving mindset being equally comfortable with deep diving on issues, hands on keyboard and know how to build highly resilient operational platforms that can scale to 8K-10K users and with 4 nine’s availability
Prototype, benchmarks new features/solutions for performance, cost, new feature availability
Operate with a platform mindset with deep familiarity on multi-tenancy, serverless computing, distributed system computing patterns
Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner by building proof of concepts, exploratory analysis
Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible
Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others’ ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team
Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One’s Tech talent
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
At least 5 years of experience with AWS cloud platform
At least 2 years experience with ML and AI technologies
At least 3 years of experience working with Big Data (Spark)
Preferred
5+ years of experience with Big Data Technologies
5+ years experience architecting and delivering software systems or platforms
3+ years of DevOps experience using AWS, Python, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub and Artifactory
6+ years of experience in cloud native platforms
5+ years of experience in open source frameworks
3+ years of experience in Test Automation
Benefits
Performance based incentive compensation
Cash bonus(es)
Long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits
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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