Distinguished Engineer Developer Insights & AI Telemetry

Distinguished Engineer -Developer Insights & AI Telemetry

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will operate as a hands-on technical visionary leading the strategy implementation and long-term vision for our enterprise Developer Insights domain with a dedicated focus on Data Engineering strategies ML/AI engineering distributed AI telemetry and AI Insights.

In this role you will work alongside our talented team of developers data engineers machine learning experts product managers and people leaders. Our domain-driven organizational structure drives higher accountability and ownership empowering you to bridge the gap between deep technical implementation and executive-level business value. You will champion Capital Ones native vendor-agnostic AI impact telemetry platform scaling it into an enterprise-grade Mission Control layer that captures analyzes and optimizes human-AI collaboration for multi-disciplinary users.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership inject high-engineering rigor into the software delivery lifecycle and build engineering excellence across Capital One come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

• Vision & Strategy: Architect the long-term enterprise roadmap for distributed AI telemetry streaming data engineering and automated developer insight frameworks.

• Enterprise Scaling & Telemetry: Lead the technical evolution of our internal developer telemetry platform from a high-performance Agent Hook Architecture into a stateless low-latency utility capable of handling billions of annual high-fidelity events across global regions.

• ML/AI & Intelligence Layer: Spearhead the deployment of advanced inference capabilities including LLM-as-a-Judge models to autonomously score code complexity categorize AI use cases (e.g. Core Logic vs. Testing) and calculate the TrueThroughput and return on investment (ROI) of generative AI tools.

• Data Engineering & Architecture: Own the end-to-end data strategy shifting from traditional batch reporting to real-time event-driven architectures utilizing a scalable Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) data structure feeding directly into our enterprise data lake.

• Business Metric Correlation: Partner with Bank Tech Analytics to link AI code density data and telemetry directly with core business outcomessuch as lowering Feature Lead Time (FLT) and PR cycle timewithout compromising quality and risk bars.

• Risk & Privacy Governance: Design and enforce rigorous privacy-by-design principles implementing automated PII masking token management and secret filtering to guarantee a completely safe space for engineering innovation.

• Culture & Technical Contribution: Lead through direct technical contributionprototyping systems evaluating build vs. buy paths authoring code patterns and deeply mentoring principal and senior engineers across the Developer Enablement tower.

• Bachelors Degree.

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering solution architecture or enterprise architecture.

• At least 5 years of experience with big data engineering distributed computing or data architecture (e.g. Spark Kafka Kinesis ClickHouse Snowflake or cloud data warehouses).

• At least 3 years of experience with Big Data and data streaming

• At least 4 years of experience building and optimizing production-grade ML/AI lifecycles pipelines or frameworks.

• At least 2 years of cloud computing experience (AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud).

• Masters Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Data Engineering or a related engineering discipline.

• 10 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Python Go Java or TypeScript.

• 6 years of experience designing and managing high-throughput distributed streaming architectures or edge collection telemetry platforms (e.g. OpenTelemetry Protobuf interception hooks).

• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role directly influencing VP/SVP/Executive stakeholders on multi-million dollar technology or AI strategy initiatives.

• Deep understanding of compliance data privacy and cybersecurity constraints within a highly regulated environment (BankTech) including experience co-authoring risk assessments alongside Cyber and Risk teams.

• Proven track record of operating within a product-centric organization (Domain Category Owner/Technical Product Owner model) delivering tactical values in continuous validation cycles.

• Experience utilizing advanced engineering metrics (DORA SPACE AI Telemetry Feature Lead Time) to demonstrate how developer tool investments translate into measurable corporate velocity and efficiency gains.

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.

McLean VA: $269100 - $307200 for Distinguished Engineer

New York NY: $293600 - $335100 for Distinguished Engineer

Richmond VA: $244700 - $279200 for Distinguished Engineer

Wilmington DE: $244700 - $279200 for Distinguished Engineer

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.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

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.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal state and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries including to the extent applicable Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco California Police Code Article 49 Sections 4901-4920; New York Citys Fair Chance Act; Philadelphias Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal state and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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