Senior Staff Engineer, Cloud Platform Leadership

Capital One

Plano (TX)

On-site

USD 286,000 - 327,000

Full time

27 hours ago

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Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer in Plano, TX to join our cloud-focused engineering team.

You will lead as a senior technical advisor for Auto Finance Dealer technology, shaping strategy and advancing scalable, high-performance systems. You will collaborate with developers, ML experts, product managers, and people leaders to drive innovation, share knowledge, and recruit top engineering talent across Capital One Tech.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required; 9+ years in software development.
5+ years with large distributed systems and public cloud technologies.
Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.

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.