Senior Staff Reliability Engineer – Cloud Resilience Leader

ITSMF; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer (Reliability Engineering) to lead cross‑functional efforts building scalable, fault‑tolerant cloud platforms. You will mentor teams and drive architectural standards.

You will act as a technical authority on performance, stability, observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering, guiding incident response and systemic root‑cause analyses. This role combines hands‑on coding with strategic leadership to elevate reliability and operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related quantitative field.
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture.

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 characteristics like performance, scalability, and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Master's Degree

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer (Reliability Engineering) to lead cross‑functional efforts building scalable, fault‑tolerant cloud platforms. You will mentor teams and drive architectural standards.

You will act as a technical authority on performance, stability, observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering, guiding incident response and systemic root‑cause analyses. This role combines hands‑on coding with strategic leadership to elevate reliability and operational