Staff Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & AI Platform Lead

Capital One Group; Virginia, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff Engineer to lead strategy and execution for CI/CD pipelines, microservices, and AI-augmented developer tooling. You will modernize monolithic systems, drive platform standards, and mentor engineers across teams.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, collaboration with senior leaders, and delivering scalable, secure solutions in a cloud-centric environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• Cloud computing experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Data architecture and enterprise design patterns.
• Web technologies and SPA frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, roadmap, and execution for CI/CD pipelines, microservices, and AI-augmented tooling.
• Drive modernization from monoliths to microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Mentor engineers and drive cross-domain architectural reviews.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform / declarative infra

AI-augmented development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in CS or SE (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Crossplane / control planes

Job description

Capital One seeks a Staff Engineer to lead strategy and execution for CI/CD pipelines, microservices, and AI-augmented developer tooling. You will modernize monolithic systems, drive platform standards, and mentor engineers across teams.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, collaboration with senior leaders, and delivering scalable, secure solutions in a cloud-centric environment.