Senior Staff Engineer, Cloud-Native Banking Platform

Capital One; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco to lead design and delivery of critical card tech platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive cloud-based solutions, and partner with product and ML teams to ship scalable services.

You will own technical direction across domains, influence architectural decisions, and champion engineering excellence while maintaining an inclusive, collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms.
• Experience with public cloud technologies.
• Master's degree preferred and 10+ years in related areas.

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, coaching and strengthening the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Public cloud technologies

API design & gateways

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

REST APIs

gRPC

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco to lead design and delivery of critical card tech platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive cloud-based solutions, and partner with product and ML teams to ship scalable services.

You will own technical direction across domains, influence architectural decisions, and champion engineering excellence while maintaining an inclusive, collaborative culture.