# Staff Cloud Engineer

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: McLean, VA
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $269,100 - $307,200 for McLean, VA, $293,600 - $335,100 for New York, NY, $244,700 - $279,200 for Plano, TX and Richmond, VA
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to join our team at Capital One. As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major cloud infrastructure transformation within Capital One. Help us define and build the future of infrastructure at enterprise scale!

**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

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)

- At least 8 years of experience in software engineering

- At least 4 years of experience in cloud engineering

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

- 10+ years of experience in coding with at least one of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js

- 6+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)

- 6+ years of experience in CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Crossplane), and Automated Governance using Policy-as-Code DSLs (e.g. OPA)

- One or more active certifications related to cloud infrastructure management or security

- Experience in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless)

- Experience designing and supporting cloud networking, security and identity integrations

- Experience troubleshooting and supporting production cloud environments

- Experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts or large-scale technical initiatives

- Experience influencing technology strategy at the portfolio or business unit level

- Experience managing multi-team engineering organizations or leading strategic technical programs spanning multiple domains

- 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 leading architectural design reviews and influencing enterprise-wide technical standards and methodologies

- Experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams

- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges

**Salary Information:** The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 New York, NY: $293,600 - $335,100 Plano, TX: $244,700 - $279,200 Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200

**Benefits:** Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud engineering
- software engineering
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- Java
- Scala
- Python
- Go
- Node.js
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- OCI
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Pulumi
- Crossplane
- OPA
- Kubernetes
- Serverless

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