Sr. Director, Software Engineering
Capital OneAbout the role
The Capital One machine learning platform organization manages our cloud-based enterprise ML+AI system providing users with tools necessary to develop and deploy machine learning and AI systems and workloads at scale. We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to manage and develop our software engineering teams to deliver foundational capabilities for our platform.
You will use your experience in building large scale and highly available distributed systems to develop our shared control plane and fleet management framework as well as distributed compute infrastructure. This foundational architecture will support our diverse offerings ranging from developer notebooks to model training to model inference and feature generation pipelines to pre-training and fine tuning Transformer architecture based models as well as generative AI inference applications. You will partner with senior stakeholders across product, TPM, engineering, data science disciplines, and other cross-functional leaders to establish and execute the vision for our platform foundations. Your depth of experience in technologies including Golang and Python programming languages, gRPC and REST web service frameworks, container (e.g., Kubernetes) and serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda) runtime environments, cloud databases and computer security will provide a multiplier effect to our organization .
You will:
Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of platform focused software engineers
Work with product and other cross-functional partners to develop vision and roadmap for engineering teams and ensure timely execution
Continuously improve software engineering practices ranging from design to development to testing and deployment
Influence near and long term system design and architecture and lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree
At least 9 years’ experience in software development
At least 7 years’ experience in people management
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
13+ years’ of experience in software development
10+ years of experience with complex architectural patterns, building APIs, microservices, and event streams
5+ years of AWS (or equivalent) cloud experience
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment
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.
Boston, MA: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionaryApply for this role
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