Senior Reliability Engineer: Observability & Resilience

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Incentive compensation

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Senior Staff Engineer in Reliability Engineering to shape the cloud-based banking future. You will serve as a technical authority, defining standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering, and mentoring engineers across teams.

You will lead cross-functional efforts to modernize monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven platforms, collaborating with senior leaders to set API standards and drive long-term platform strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field; 9+ years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and data architecture.

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 (performance, scalability, operability).
• Lead cross-divisional projects and drive best practices.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

SQL

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Senior Staff Engineer in Reliability Engineering to shape the cloud-based banking future. You will serve as a technical authority, defining standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering, and mentoring engineers across teams.

You will lead cross-functional efforts to modernize monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven platforms, collaborating with senior leaders to set API standards and drive long-term platform strategy.