Staff Engineer: Cloud Platform & Data Security

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in New York to lead technical strategy and hands-on delivery across cloud-native platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture across services, and shape system designs for scalable, secure services in a multi-language environment.

You will collaborate with product managers and data teams to optimize outcomes while advancing Capital One's technology roadmap and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field or related discipline.
• 7+ years in software engineering, architecture, and cloud data platforms.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and large-scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions.
• Ensure high-quality architectural designs and implementations.
• Specialize in performance, scalability and operability considerations.
• Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence across teams.
• Drive modernization from monoliths to microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define platform strategy and API standards.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and set coding and design standards.

Skills

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Cloud computing (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Data architecture

Networking protocols

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Kanudo caching platform

Multi-language SDKs

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in New York to lead technical strategy and hands-on delivery across cloud-native platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture across services, and shape system designs for scalable, secure services in a multi-language environment.

You will collaborate with product managers and data teams to optimize outcomes while advancing Capital One's technology roadmap and engineering excellence.