Remote Senior Distinguished Engineer, Cloud Payments & AI

Capital One

Richmond (VA)

On-site

USD 315,000 - 359,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Capital One seeks a Sr. Distinguished Engineer to lead in payments in the cloud, partnering with developers, ML experts, PMs, and people leaders.

You will drive innovation, champion engineering excellence, and mentor talent while shaping non-functional aspects like performance and scalability across critical platforms. You will apply AI-native engineering to deliver real-time insights and scalable solutions, evangelize best practices, and recruit top engineering talent to strengthen Capital One

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field.
9+ years of software engineering experience.
7+ years designing distributed systems.
7+ years with public cloud technologies.
Experience with payments standards (PCI-DSS) preferred.

Responsibilities

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision across domains and platforms.
Proactively propose practical, high-performance solutions.
Partner with executives to set direction for strategic investments and decisions.
Accelerate use of agentic AI to modernize systems and scale AI deployments.
Elevate quality of design and remove technical debt across systems and customer experiences.
Serve as an authoritative expert on performance, reliability, scalability, and operability.
Continuously learn and inject advanced knowledge, driving AI-powered engineering adoption.
Manage multiple engagements, shifting between detailed solutions and broad strategy.
Lead tech-driven innovation and mentor engineers across teams.