Description
We are seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Engineer to lead and shape our Asset and Cloud inventory, intelligence, and insights missions. As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.
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
- Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
- Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
- Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
- Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements
- Lead the adoption and responsible use of emerging AI and automation capabilities to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of cloud platforms and engineering workflows
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
- At least 6 years of experience in cloud engineering
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- 12+ years of experience in coding with at least one of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js
- 8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
- 5+ years of experience architecting multi-tenant platforms including isolation, access controls, quota management, and multi-region operations
- 4+ years of hands-on experience using knowledge graphs and graph query languages for asset discovery and topology mapping
- Experience with asset management concepts including inventory discovery, telemetry aggregation, CMDBs, and state tracking across multi-cloud environments
- Experience building AI-native platforms or integrating AI capabilities into operational tools to automate intelligence and actionable insights
- One or more active certifications related to cloud infrastructure management or security
- Experience in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (ex: Kubernetes, Serverless)
- Experience designing and supporting cloud networking, security and identity integrations
- Experience influencing technology strategy at the portfolio or business unit level
- Experience defining and tracking engineering OKRs that align to business outcomes
- Experience shaping organization design and talent strategy for scaling engineering capabilities
- Experience with strategic and executive-level communication to influence technology decisions within the organization
- Experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
- Experience acting as a leader of leaders and driving professional development within technical teams
- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges.
- Experience with risk management and operational excellence within high risk/high severity incident environment
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams
- Experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews or establishing coding and design standards
Salary Information: The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: Chicago, IL: $286,200 - $326,700 McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 New York, NY: $343,400 - $392,000 Plano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700 Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700 San Francisco, CA: $343,400 - $392,000
Benefits: Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.