Staff Engineer: Cloud, AI, Platform Architect & Mentor

Capital One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in Plano, TX to advance cloud-native platforms, microservices, and AI-enabled development. You will mentor engineers, define long-term platform strategy, and drive architecture across multiple domains.

You will balance deep technical work with coaching peers and leading cross-functional initiatives. Responsibilities include evangelizing a bold technical vision, decomposing complex problems, and ensuring design quality while collaborating with senior

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
• At least 7 years of software engineering and solution architecture experience
• Cloud computing experience across AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• Data architecture experience and strong design patterns

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
• Lead cross-divisional projects and promote best practices

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud computing

Architectural design

Leadership

Mentoring

Agentic AI

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field

Master’s Degree in CS or Software Eng

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in Plano, TX to advance cloud-native platforms, microservices, and AI-enabled development. You will mentor engineers, define long-term platform strategy, and drive architecture across multiple domains.

You will balance deep technical work with coaching peers and leading cross-functional initiatives. Responsibilities include evangelizing a bold technical vision, decomposing complex problems, and ensuring design quality while collaborating with senior