Senior Staff Cloud Engineer - AI-Driven Platform Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Inclusive culture

Professional development

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to lead Asset and Cloud inventory, intelligence, and insights missions across the enterprise.

You will collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards, driving modernization to microservice architectures and event-driven platforms. You will mentor engineers, balance hands-on technical work with strategic influence, and help shape scalable, secure cloud solutions that empower

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 6 years of experience in cloud engineering.

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.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to lead Asset and Cloud inventory, intelligence, and insights missions across the enterprise.

You will collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards, driving modernization to microservice architectures and event-driven platforms. You will mentor engineers, balance hands-on technical work with strategic influence, and help shape scalable, secure cloud solutions that empower