Senior Staff Resilience Engineer - Cloud Reliability Leader

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

Job summary

Capital One in Richmond, VA seeks a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to lead technical vision across cloud platforms, drive architectural excellence, and mentor engineers.

You will partner with ML, product, and people leaders to deliver scalable, observable systems with robust reliability. You will own non‑functional requirements, guide incident response and root‑cause analyses, and promote enterprise standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required or equivalent work experience.
• 9+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• 9+ years of cloud computing experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture (preferred).

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.
• Mentor and coach the engineering and product community to strengthen expertise.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Job description

Capital One in Richmond, VA seeks a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to lead technical vision across cloud platforms, drive architectural excellence, and mentor engineers.

You will partner with ML, product, and people leaders to deliver scalable, observable systems with robust reliability. You will own non‑functional requirements, guide incident response and root‑cause analyses, and promote enterprise standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering.