Sr. Distinguished Engineer

Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Software Engineer – Enterprise Data Storage and Consumption Platforms

We are the Data Storage & Consumption Platform team within the Enterprise Data team at Capital One. By joining the team you will lead technical initiatives to mature and grow the consumption platforms leveraged by all lines of business in Capital One.

These initiatives will deliver solutions for improving the consumption platform scalability, Operational Excellence, Performance & Resiliency.

Come join our team if you are self‑driven, actively looking for ways to improve and mature platforms for Enterprise scale, enable frictionless consumption of the data for various personas and know how to drive technical strategy to get things done.

Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors who strive to be diverse in thought so we visualize the problem space. At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide innovative solutions across organizational boundaries.

• Have a software engineering/problem solving mindset; be comfortable with deep diving on issues, hands‑on coding, and building highly resilient operational platforms that can scale to 8K–10K users with 4‑nine availability.
• Prototype, benchmark new features/solutions for performance, cost and new feature availability.
• Operate with a platform mindset with deep familiarity on multi‑tenancy, serverless computing, and distributed system computing patterns.
• Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain; shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner by building proof of concepts, exploratory analysis.
• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization.
• Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies; share consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy‑in.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence; reuse and inner‑source solutions where possible.
• Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others’ ideas can be heard and championed.
• Lead the way in creating next‑generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One's Tech talent.

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 5 years of experience with AWS cloud platform
• At least 2 years experience with ML and AI technologies
• At least 3 years of experience working with Big Data (Spark)

• 5+ years of experience with Big Data Technologies
• 5+ years experience architecting and delivering software systems or platforms
• 3+ years of Dev Ops experience using AWS, Python, Terraform, Jenkins, Git Hub and Artifactory
• 6+ years of experience in cloud native platforms
• 5+ years of experience in open source frameworks
• 3+ years of experience in Test Automation

McLean, VA: $314,800 – $359,300

New York, NY: $343,400 – $392,000

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

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace.

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