Staff Engineer: Cloud Platform & Data Security Leader

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical strategy and architecture across cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive scalable designs, and champion best practices while shaping a modern, multi-language infrastructure.

You will work across Java, Go, Python, and other languages to deliver resilient systems and large-scale data capabilities in a highly dynamic banking environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field.
• 10+ years in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, scalable solutions.
• Ensure high quality in design and implementation.
• Be an expert on non-functional characteristics like performance and operability.
• Mentor engineers and expand technical capabilities across teams.
• Drive modernization of monoliths to microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Balance deep coding with mentoring to elevate peers.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Go/Java/JavaScript

Public cloud platforms

Mentoring teams

Cross-domain reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Master's degree

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical strategy and architecture across cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive scalable designs, and champion best practices while shaping a modern, multi-language infrastructure.

You will work across Java, Go, Python, and other languages to deliver resilient systems and large-scale data capabilities in a highly dynamic banking environment.