Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Developer Enablement

As a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

You will work alongside our talented team of developers machine learning experts product managers and people leaders. Our Senior Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Senior Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies platforms and capability domains creating clear and concise communications code samples blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

As a Senior Distinguished Engineer you will join the Developer Experience organization within the Enterprise Platform Technology (EPTech) line of business. You will own and execute on high priority initiatives that enable developers to be more productive while influencing across the enterprise to drive our Developer Experience strategy. Specifically you will be partnering closely with cross-functional teams mentoring engineers providing technical guidance to teams and defining the strategy for how we develop and maintain software at Capital One paying special attention to how we ensure software stays current while minimizing the effort required of developer teams to do so. You will drive adoption of low surface area container images (distroless) standardize software build processes with technology like CNCF Buildpacks and move up the stack from the automated update of base images that we have today to addressing all types of software dependencies at scale for all applications developed at Capital One. Experience with tools that automate dependency updates as well as an understanding of how Generative AI might play a role in software updates will be valuable. This role will be responsible for big picture thinking strategic direction presenting to executive stakeholders and holding engineering teams accountable for overarching delivery goals.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital Ones engineering teams come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Key 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree

• At least 9 years of experience with software engineering or software development

• At least 5 years of experience with public cloud providers (AWS GCP or Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 10 years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development from conception through architecture implementation testing deployment and production support

• 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns working with business leaders on the implications of architectural decisions

• 5 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java Python Go JavaScript/TypeScript Swift etc.

• 5 years experience with DevSecOps and building software with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Artifactory Jenkins Harness Sonar and AWS CloudFormation templates

• 5 years architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS GCP or Azure)

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidates offer letter.

Capital One offers a comprehensive competitive and inclusive set of health financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status exempt or non-exempt status and management level.

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