Staff Engineer: Cloud Payments & AI-Driven Platform

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to advance the GPN Digital Payments Technology platform. You will help define the cloud-native architecture and drive high-performance, low-latency systems across domestic and international rails.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with ML specialists, and champion engineering excellence while delivering scalable payment capabilities. The role emphasizes thought leadership, cloud modernization, and building resilient capabilities for secure commerce

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of general software experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering and solution architecture.
• 3+ years of cloud technologies experience.
• 8+ years of Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Data Center Networking).
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity.

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, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Cloud technologies

Networking

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

10+ years of professional coding experience

8+ years in full lifecycle of system development

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

BGP

SD-WAN

Wi-Fi

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to advance the GPN Digital Payments Technology platform. You will help define the cloud-native architecture and drive high-performance, low-latency systems across domestic and international rails.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with ML specialists, and champion engineering excellence while delivering scalable payment capabilities. The role emphasizes thought leadership, cloud modernization, and building resilient capabilities for secure commerce