Staff Full-Stack Reliability Engineer: Platform Innovator

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer for Reliability Engineering in San Francisco. You will lead technical vision, decompose complex problems, and ensure high-quality designs while driving modern architectures and platform strategy.

Strong cloud, web tech, and distributed systems experience are essential. This role emphasizes mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and transforming monoliths to microservices.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture and cloud computing.
• Data architecture experience.

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.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and define long-term platform strategy and API standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Web technologies

Distributed HPC/ML systems

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

SQL

Mentoring

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field

Masters degree in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer for Reliability Engineering in San Francisco. You will lead technical vision, decompose complex problems, and ensure high-quality designs while driving modern architectures and platform strategy.

Strong cloud, web tech, and distributed systems experience are essential. This role emphasizes mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and transforming monoliths to microservices.