Distinguished Engineer (Reliability Engineering)

Distinguished Engineer (Reliability Engineering)

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.

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.

As a key leader within our Reliability Engineering organization, you will architect high-performance infrastructure that simplifies the developer experience while optimizing spend through advanced automation. You will drive the strategic integration of cross-tool leverage points and position our API ecosystem to support emerging agentic AI use cases. By establishing seamless integration opportunities and ensuring robust application resilience, you will play a critical role in building a scalable, future-ready system that empowers our entire engineering community.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Key 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture

• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns 

• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.

• 8+  years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

• 3+  years of experience with public or private cloud technologies

• 8+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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