Staff Identity Engineer – Zero-Trust & Cloud IAM

Capital One Group; Richmond, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Identity, focusing on modernizing access controls and building scalable Identity services in the cloud. You will lead cross-functional efforts to implement policy-based access, zero-trust concepts, and secure APIs, while mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions.

The role emphasizes developing identity-as-a-service capabilities, integrating risk-based access decisions, and driving propulsion of monoliths to microservice

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, Azure, Google Cloud), Data architecture.
• Experience with designing distributed systems, and knowledge of scalable architectures.

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 (performance, scalability, operability).
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Identity, focusing on modernizing access controls and building scalable Identity services in the cloud. You will lead cross-functional efforts to implement policy-based access, zero-trust concepts, and secure APIs, while mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions.

The role emphasizes developing identity-as-a-service capabilities, integrating risk-based access decisions, and driving propulsion of monoliths to microservice