Senior Staff Engineer: Cloud Platforms & SRE Leader

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead technical direction across Customer Management platforms, guiding a large engineering organization and delivering high-impact, scalable solutions in a cloud-driven environment.

You will mentor senior leaders, collaborate with product management, and drive multi-year strategies to modernize legacy systems while enabling data-driven, experimental credit offers and customer experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 9+ years in Software engineering and solution architecture.
• 9+ years in Enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• 9+ years in Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks.

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.
• Lead and mentor within the tech community and coach engineering talent.
• Partner with product management to set an ambitious roadmap for expanding Capital One’s reach.
• Hands-on full-stack coding (frontend, backend, data processing, automation).
• Design solutions enabling non-technical contributors to design, test, and deliver marketing experiments and offers.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

SPA frameworks

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead technical direction across Customer Management platforms, guiding a large engineering organization and delivering high-impact, scalable solutions in a cloud-driven environment.

You will mentor senior leaders, collaborate with product management, and drive multi-year strategies to modernize legacy systems while enabling data-driven, experimental credit offers and customer experiences.