Senior Data Engineer, Python, Spark, AWS

Capital One

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Location Type: Office

Location: McLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $144,200 - $181,000 per year

Senior

Amazon RedshiftAWSAzureCassandraCloudHadoopJavaKafkaLinuxMapReduceMicroservicesMySQLNoSQLOpen SourcePythonRDBMSScalaShell ScriptingSparkSQLUnix

About the role

Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
Work with a team of developers with deep experience in machine learning, distributed microservices, and full stack systems
Utilize programming languages like Java, Scala, Python and Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing services such as Redshift and Snowflake
Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community
Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
Perform unit tests and conduct reviews with other team members to make sure your code is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for performance

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 3 years of experience in application development (Internship experience does not apply)
At least 1 year of experience in big data technologies
5+ years of experience in application development including Python, SQL, Scala, or Java (preferred)
2+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) (preferred)
3+ years experience with Distributed data/computing tools (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL) (preferred)
2+ year experience working on real-time data and streaming applications (preferred)
2+ years of experience with NoSQL implementation (Mongo, Cassandra) (preferred)
2+ years of data warehousing experience (Redshift or Snowflake) (preferred)
3+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux including basic commands and shell scripting (preferred)
2+ years of experience with Agile engineering practices (preferred)
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position.

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website .
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.

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

JavaScalaPythonSQLNoSQLMapReduceHadoopSparkRedshiftSnowflake

collaborationmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptability

Bachelor’s Degree