Staff Full-Stack Reliability Engineer — Platform & Cloud

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer (Reliability Engineering) to join a community of technical experts focused on cloud-native platform resilience. You will drive architectural direction, craft pragmatic solutions, and act as a trusted advisor on performance, scalability and operability across teams.

You will mentor engineers, lead cross‑domain architectural reviews, and help transform monolithic systems into modern, event‑driven microservices while maintaining simplicity and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
• Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Data architecture

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
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event‑driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long‑term platform strategy and API standards
• Serve as a force‑multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands‑on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
• Lead cross‑divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Performance and scalability

Non-functional requirements

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer (Reliability Engineering) to join a community of technical experts focused on cloud-native platform resilience. You will drive architectural direction, craft pragmatic solutions, and act as a trusted advisor on performance, scalability and operability across teams.

You will mentor engineers, lead cross‑domain architectural reviews, and help transform monolithic systems into modern, event‑driven microservices while maintaining simplicity and