Sr. Distinguished Engineer (Resilience Engineering)
The Resilience Engineering team is dedicated to safeguarding our enterprise critical platforms by preventing, managing, and resolving high-severity technology incidents. In this team, you will serve as the technical authority, providing architectural vision and leading cross-functional teams during critical outages to drastically minimize downtime. Beyond immediate incident response, you will spearhead systemic root cause analyses to ensure underlying architectural weaknesses are fundamentally and permanently resolved. You will proactively define and champion enterprise-wide standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering to build a robust, fault-tolerant infrastructure. This is a highly visible, strategic leadership role where your expertise will mentor engineering teams and directly shape the long-term reliability and operational maturity of our entire organization.
If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.
Key responsibilities:
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
Basic Qualifications:Bachelor’s Degree
At least 9 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
At least 9 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
At least 9 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr Distinguished EngineerPlano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
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.
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. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
