Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & ML

Capital One; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff Engineer to lead technical vision across domains, drive modernization from monoliths to microservices, and push scalable cloud-enabled solutions. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with architecture leaders, and help define platform standards.

You will influence cross-functional teams, champion best practices, and contribute hands-on technical work while elevating peers across Capital One Tech.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS or related quantitative field.
• Extensive experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency with multiple programming languages including Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala.
• Strong data architecture and distributed system design skills.
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, scalable solutions.
• Ensure high quality technical design and implementation.
• Operate as an expert on performance, scalability and operability.
• Lead modernization of monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Mentor engineers and coach the technical community across teams.
• Lead cross-divisional projects promoting best practices.

Skills

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Go/Java/JS/TS/Python

System design

Mentoring

APIs/microservices

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related

Master’s degree in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capital One seeks a Staff Engineer to lead technical vision across domains, drive modernization from monoliths to microservices, and push scalable cloud-enabled solutions. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with architecture leaders, and help define platform standards.

You will influence cross-functional teams, champion best practices, and contribute hands-on technical work while elevating peers across Capital One Tech.