Senior Distinguished Engineer – Global Payment Network

Capital One

Join Capital One as a Sr. Distinguished Engineer working in the Global Payment Network.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $286,200 - $359,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaJavaScriptPythonSwiftTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of payments in the cloud.
You will operate as a trusted advisor for key technologies, platforms and capability domains.
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision across multiple domains and mission critical platforms.
Partner with executive leaders across business, product, and technology functions to set the direction for strategic investment and high-leverage technical decisions.
Handle multiple concurrent engagements, rapidly context shifting between detailed technical solutions and broad strategic engagement to accelerate value creation.
Lead tech-driven innovation across engineers and executives, coaching organizations and mentoring individuals to elevate the technical acumen across engineering, business & product groups.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
At least 7 years of experience designing distributed systems
At least 7 years of experience with public cloud technologies
12+ years of experience in Software Engineering and Systems Design (Preferred)
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.) (Preferred)
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through design, implementation, testing, deployment and production operation (Preferred)
7+ years of experience with systems meeting high performance and resiliency requirements (Preferred)
8+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies (Preferred)
Experience with payments, money movement, and related standards (e.g. PCI-DSS) (Preferred)
Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion (Preferred).

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 engineeringdistributed systems designpublic cloud technologiesJavaPythonGoJavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftsystem development lifecycle

Soft Skills

trusted advisortechnical vision articulationstrategic investment directioncontext shiftinginnovation leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationvalue creation

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree