Staff Engineer - AI & Cloud Risk Platforms (Remote)

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in Richmond, VA to lead and mentor teams at the intersection of risk technology and cloud-native engineering. You will architect intelligent, real-time risk management products and guide developers, ML experts, and product managers toward robust, scalable systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, deep design reviews, and evangelizing modern tech across the organization, including AI-driven initiatives and secure, observable architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• 5+ years of experience in data architecture including event-driven and real-time architectures.
• Experience applying AI or machine learning concepts to engineering challenges.
• Deep practical knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, chaos engineering, and advanced observability tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Tracing).

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for embedding AI and automated code transformation into the developer lifecycle.
• 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.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
• Ensure Code is of the highest quality & standard while being an active contributor and reviewer on critical repos of the application.
• Develop full stack applications with a product engineering mindset, spanning frontend and backend ecosystems.

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in Richmond, VA to lead and mentor teams at the intersection of risk technology and cloud-native engineering. You will architect intelligent, real-time risk management products and guide developers, ML experts, and product managers toward robust, scalable systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, deep design reviews, and evangelizing modern tech across the organization, including AI-driven initiatives and secure, observable architectures.