Senior Staff Engineer, Card Tech — AI‑Driven Cloud

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentives

Comprehensive benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer for Card Tech in San Francisco to lead high-impact, AI-native software initiatives.

You will blend hands-on coding with mentoring, delivering production-ready systems and shaping engineering standards. You will collaborate with ML experts, product managers, and people leaders to design scalable, secure cloud-native services, setting technical vision and coaching teams to ship quickly while maintaining quality.

Qualifications

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 and scalability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community
• Handle several projects simultaneously while maximizing impact
• Mentor engineers and coach the technical community

Skills

Distributed systems design

Cloud computing

Technical leadership

Public cloud technologies

APIs design

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL/REST/gRPC

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer for Card Tech in San Francisco to lead high-impact, AI-native software initiatives.

You will blend hands-on coding with mentoring, delivering production-ready systems and shaping engineering standards. You will collaborate with ML experts, product managers, and people leaders to design scalable, secure cloud-native services, setting technical vision and coaching teams to ship quickly while maintaining quality.