Senior Distinguished Software Engineer – AML

Capital One

Senior Distinguished Engineer focusing on anti-money laundering technology solutions at Capital One. Leading technical innovation and mentoring engineering teams to enhance software quality.

Posted 4/18/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $286,200 - $392,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudKafkaSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 observability, resiliency, and operational excellence
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
Learn the business of our stakeholders and conceive of creative technical solutions that solve for their goals
Develop full stack applications with a product engineering mindset, spanning frontend and backend ecosystems that balance simplicity with flexibility
Utilize AWS cloud Infrastructure across the entire stack (IaaS primitives to PaaS offerings)
Utilize best practices for modern engineering operations including observability, SLOs, Continuous Deployment, and Incident Management that embrace a "you build it, you run it" mentality
Employ frameworks like Spark, Flink, Kafka, and Dagster for large-scale data architectures and data processing
Demonstrate ability to write high-quality technical documentation to align partner teams and influence stakeholders

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 9 years of experience in Software Engineering and solution architecture
At least 9 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
At least 9 years of experience in Data architecture

Benefits

Comp & perks

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

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Hard Skills & Tools

full stack developmentdata architecturecloud computingAWSSparkFlinkKafkaDagsterContinuous DeploymentIncident Management

Soft Skills

problem solvingmentoringcommunicationtime managementcollaborationleadershipcreativitytechnical documentationinfluenceoperational excellence

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree