Senior Staff Engineer - Resilience & Reliability Architect

Capital One Group; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Richmond, VA is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Resilience Engineering) to lead architectural vision, partner with platform teams, and mentor engineers building scalable, reliable cloud solutions.

You will drive observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering practices, stewarding incident response and root‑cause analyses to minimize downtime across critical enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• 10+ years of cloud computing experience or equivalent.
• Proven ability to lead across large, complex programs.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for the 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.
• Mentor engineers and coach the tech community.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

System design

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Enterprise architecture patterns

Solution architecture

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

Capital One in Richmond, VA is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Resilience Engineering) to lead architectural vision, partner with platform teams, and mentor engineers building scalable, reliable cloud solutions.

You will drive observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering practices, stewarding incident response and root‑cause analyses to minimize downtime across critical enterprise platforms.