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Sr. Distinguished, Software Engineer - Enterprise Data Storage and Consumption Platforms - Remote-Eligible

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-06-17

Sr. Distinguished, Software Engineer - Enterprise Data Storage and Consumption Platforms - Remote-Eligible

Job Description

You will join the Data Storage & Consumption Platform team within Enterprise Data, serving as a Senior Director-level Individual Contributor (IC). This role demands a visionary and hands-on leader to drive the technical strategy for consumption platforms leveraged by all lines of business. Your focus is on maturing platform scalability, Operational Excellence, Performance, and Resiliency. We require deep expertise in AWS infrastructure ,Lakehouse architecture, Snowflake, Databricks platform and BI tools to mature these enterprise-scale systems and execute technical strategy. 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

What you’ll do:

  • Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for our systems and platforms that power Capital One’s inbound card and loan capabilities across the customer experience, payment profiles, scheduling, fulfillment and money movement rails.
  • Partner cross-functionally with client, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning platform teams to align on and co-develop technical solutions.Â
  • Architect and build highly secure & scalable systems that enable server-driven product experiences across devices, with exceptional reliability and availability.
  • Design high-throughput, low-latency services capable of handling millions of concurrent requests.Â
  • Design and implement API & federated BFF (Back-end for Front end) strategy for efficient data access (fetching, caching, request coalescing, etc.) between backend services and clients, with democratized data schema contribution.
  • Architect enhanced Observability and Monitoring frameworks to enable rapid issue detection, debugging and resolution, across the entire product system stack.  Â
  • Provide organizational technical leadership to influence architecture, engineering standards, cross-team strategies, mentoring engineers and driving organization wide platform innovation.
  • Leverage proven leadership in driving platform strategy, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and influencing technical direction across the company

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • At least 9 years of experience in software engineeringÂ
  • At least 9 years of experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms
  • At least 5 years of experience with public cloud technologies

Preferred Qualifications:Â Â

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift,Â
  • 7+ years of experience in event-driven systems and architecting scalable, fault-tolerant, highly-available services
  • 7+ years of experience in building high-performance API platforms and federated BFF architectures (GraphQL, REST, API gateways, gRPC, caching, and streaming).Â
  • 7+ years of experience with cloud-native engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and automated deployment

Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity. At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer). 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. Remote (Regardless of Location): $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr Distinguished EngineerRichmond, 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. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job

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