Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (API Gateway) (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Capital One Financial

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Work type: On-site
Location: Riverwoods, ILChicago, IL
Salary: $147,100–$167,900 / yr
Posted: 6 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (API Gateway) (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

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As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer on the API Gateway platform team at Capital One, you will lead the design and implementation of our critical API Gateways, ensuring seamless traffic management across all services. Your responsibilities include automating CI/CD pipelines with Infrastructure as Code to enhance scalability and reliability, while also driving incident management and defining technical requirements for system health monitoring. You will shape the long-term infrastructure roadmap by selecting vendors and setting architectural standards aligned with enterprise goals. Additionally, you will provide high-volume support for mission-critical services, ensuring robust security through cloud-native deployments on AWS and GCP, and implementing OAuth 2.0, mTLS, JWT, and JWKS standards. Utilizing Java, Python, Kubernetes, and observability tools like Datadog, you will build, secure, and optimize foundational API infrastructure to support Capital One’s extensive API ecosystem.

Skills

AWS GCP Kubernetes Python Java JavaScript SQL OAuth 2.0 mTLS JWT JWKS CI/CD Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Datadog

What you'll do

Lead the design and maintenance of the API lifecycle to ensure a seamless experience across all services.
Engineer IaC solutions and CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and reduce manual overhead.
Drive system reliability by leading incident management and monitoring performance metrics.
Shape technical infrastructure roadmap, including vendor selection and architectural standards.
Provide dedicated support for mission-critical APIs, ensuring rapid issue resolution and proactive troubleshooting.

What we're looking for

At least 5 years of experience in JavaScript, Java, SQL, and Python.
3+ years of hands-on experience with API Gateway technologies and security configurations.
Proven expertise in AWS or GCP cloud services.
Strong background in designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines.
Experience leading incident management and ensuring system reliability through monitoring.