Senior Staff Reliability Engineer - Cloud Resilience Leader

Capital One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 286,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer in Reliability Engineering to define and drive architectural standards for enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

You will mentor engineers, lead cross-functional teams during critical outages, and champion observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering across Capital One Tech. You will partner with architects and product leaders to minimize downtime, improve resilience, and deliver robust, scalable services while shaping the long-term platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 9+ years in software engineering, architecture, cloud, and data.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong data and enterprise architecture skills.

Responsibilities

• Articulate a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions.
• Ensure high quality of technical design and implementation.
• Lead non-functional aspects: performance, scalability, operability.
• Mentor engineers and drive knowledge sharing across the org.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems to microservices.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Java/TypeScript

AWS/Azure/GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree

Tools

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer in Reliability Engineering to define and drive architectural standards for enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

You will mentor engineers, lead cross-functional teams during critical outages, and champion observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering across Capital One Tech. You will partner with architects and product leaders to minimize downtime, improve resilience, and deliver robust, scalable services while shaping the long-term platform