Remote Senior Distinguished Engineer — Cloud-Scale Architect

Capital One National Association; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 314,800 - 359,300; Full time

Job summary

Capital One National Association is seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer to lead cloud-native modernization initiatives and define scalable architectures. You will drive technical vision, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product teams to deliver high-impact solutions in a distributed environment.

The role emphasizes leadership in cloud platforms, data services, and performance-centric design while fostering an inclusive engineering culture and strong technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.
• 9+ years of general software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• 9+ years of enterprise architecture and design patterns experience.

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.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Cloud technologies

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Capital One National Association is seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer to lead cloud-native modernization initiatives and define scalable architectures. You will drive technical vision, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product teams to deliver high-impact solutions in a distributed environment.

The role emphasizes leadership in cloud platforms, data services, and performance-centric design while fostering an inclusive engineering culture and strong technical excellence.