Distinguished Engineer

Capital One

Distinguished Engineer at Capital One involved in cloud banking transformation. Leading engineering excellence and reliability roadmap while mentoring talent across teams.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeRichmond • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $244,700 - $307,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudJavaScriptTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and implement the multi-year reliability roadmap and target architectural state for the entire product portfolio.
Invent and deliver novel engineering solutions to reduce organizational toil, maximizing engineering velocity across all services.
Serve as the final escalation point for system crises, codifying best practices to build an organizational culture of outage prevention.
Govern secure IaC/Platform strategy, driving enterprise-wide adoption and standardization across multi-cloud environments.
Establish organization-wide reliability standards and Error Budget governance to align business objectives with engineering risk.
Lead the growth and technical development of SRE and platform engineering talent across multiple teams and disciplines.
Establish company-wide FinOps governance and capacity management to ensure sustainable, cost-efficient infrastructure growth.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree.
At least 7 years of experience in Software, Site Reliability (SRE), and Solution Architecture.
At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, highly available system design, and design patterns.
At least 5 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
At least 5 years of experience in Web technologies (Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks).
At least 1 year of experience in leading and applying Generative AI/headless AI to enhance automation, code quality or operational workflow.

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

Site Reliability EngineeringSolution ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureHighly Available System DesignDesign PatternsCloud ComputingJavaScriptTypeScriptSingle Page Application FrameworksGenerative AI

Soft Skills

LeadershipTechnical DevelopmentOrganizational CultureCommunicationGovernance

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree