Distinguished Engineer – Global Network

Capital One

Distinguished Engineer at Capital One leading technical solutions in cloud banking and mentoring talent. Focused on creating scalable network infrastructure and optimizing business outcomes.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeChicago • California, Illinois, New York, Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $244,700 - $335,100 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 7 years of experience in software engineering and system architecture
At least 7 years of experience in network engineering and architecture
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
8+ years of experience with networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)
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
Experience with service routing and application traffic engineering
Experience with infrastructure automation architecture

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

JavaPythonGoJavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftBGPWi-FiSD-WANCloud Networking

Soft Skills

MentoringProblem SolvingTime Management