Staff Engineer: AI & Cloud Risk (Remote)

Capital One; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer (Remote - Eligible) to lead in building AI-driven risk management platforms and scalable cloud-based solutions. You will mentor engineers, contribute deep technical expertise, and drive architectural decisions across frontend and backend systems.

You will collaborate with AML & Sanctions teams and other stakeholders to deliver real-time risk products, evangelize modern technology choices, and ensure high-quality design and code across critical repositories.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 7+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• 5+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• 5+ years in data architecture including event-driven and real-time architectures.

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.
• Mentor engineers and lead by example across engineering and product teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

AI/ML concepts

Cloud computing

Software architecture

Full stack development

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer (Remote - Eligible) to lead in building AI-driven risk management platforms and scalable cloud-based solutions. You will mentor engineers, contribute deep technical expertise, and drive architectural decisions across frontend and backend systems.

You will collaborate with AML & Sanctions teams and other stakeholders to deliver real-time risk products, evangelize modern technology choices, and ensure high-quality design and code across critical repositories.