Senior Reliability Architect, Cloud & Resilience

Capital One National Association; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer for Reliability Engineering in the McLean/Richmond area. You will lead technical vision, drive cross‑functional initiatives and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, observability‑driven platforms.

You will champion disaster recovery, incident management, and chaos engineering to minimize downtime and improve platform resilience across critical services. Strong cloud, architecture, and leadership experience are required.

Qualifications

• At least 9 years in software engineering, architecture, and cloud platforms.
• Experience with data architecture and design patterns.
• Strong leadership and mentoring of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical vision and drive cross‑functional initiatives.
• Architect scalable, fault‑tolerant systems and microservices.
• Guide incident response and postmortems with RCA.
• Mentor engineers and influence platform strategy.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Non-functional design

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Master's degree in CS or Software Eng

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Databases

TypeScript

Java

Python

Go

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer for Reliability Engineering in the McLean/Richmond area. You will lead technical vision, drive cross‑functional initiatives and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, observability‑driven platforms.

You will champion disaster recovery, incident management, and chaos engineering to minimize downtime and improve platform resilience across critical services. Strong cloud, architecture, and leadership experience are required.