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.