Senior Distinguished Engineer – Remote Eligible

Capital One

Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One leading technical vision and mentoring teams for cloud banking solutions. Focused on engineering excellence and innovative technology contributions across teams.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $286,200 - $326,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoJavaJavaScriptPythonSwiftTypeScript

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 9 years of experience in General software
At least 9 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field (Preferred)
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc. (Preferred)
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support (Preferred)
3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies (Preferred)
10+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking) (Preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaPythonGoJavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftsystem development lifecyclesolution architecturecloud technologiesNetworking

Soft Skills

technical visionproblem decompositionquality assurancementorshipcommunity engagementtime managementrole modeling