Distinguished Engineer

Capital One

Distinguished Engineer at Capital One driving innovation in cloud banking solutions. Leading technical contributions while mentoring talent and optimizing business outcomes in banking technology.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeMcLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $244,700 - $307,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoJavaJavaScriptPythonSwiftTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 7 years of experience in general software, software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, testing, deployment and production support
At least 5 years of experience in network engineering and architecture, security engineering and architecture, cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), data architecture (Event Driven architecture)
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Swift.
8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies.

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

software engineeringsolution architectureenterprise architecturedesign patternsnetwork engineeringsecurity engineeringcloud computingdata architectureprogramming languagessystem development lifecycle

Soft Skills

technical visionproblem decompositionquality assurancementorshipcommunity engagementtime managementimpact maximization

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree