Staff Engineer — Cloud Data Security Architect

Capital One; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead in a cloud-focused, multi-language environment, contributing to mission-critical infrastructure including multi-language SDKs and caching platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural best practices, and collaborate with product and architecture leaders to set long-term platform strategy.

You will operate as a trusted advisor, promoting engineering excellence, and spearheading modernization of monolithic systems into microservices and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, and cloud/data domains

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
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands‑on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers
• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Go

Java

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Rust

C#

Scala

SPA frameworks

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead in a cloud-focused, multi-language environment, contributing to mission-critical infrastructure including multi-language SDKs and caching platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural best practices, and collaborate with product and architecture leaders to set long-term platform strategy.

You will operate as a trusted advisor, promoting engineering excellence, and spearheading modernization of monolithic systems into microservices and