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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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Sr. Staff Engineer (Reliability Engineering) joins the Resilience Engineering team to safeguard enterprise-critical platforms by preventing, managing, and resolving high-severity technology incidents. As a technical authority, you will provide architectural vision, lead cross-functional teams during critical outages, and conduct systemic root cause analyses to resolve underlying infrastructure weaknesses. You will proactively define standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering while driving the modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms. The role requires expertise in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise design patterns, and data architecture. You will utilize cloud computing platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, alongside technologies such as Go, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, and Scala. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, establishing API standards, and ensuring non-functional system characteristics like performance and scalability.
What does a Engineer earn in Texas?
Median $182000 from 39 postings across 14 companies.
Lead cross-functional teams during critical outages to minimize downtime and resolve high-severity technology incidents.
Conduct systemic root cause analyses to identify and permanently resolve underlying architectural weaknesses.
Define and champion enterprise-wide standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering.
Drive the modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
Serve as a technical authority on non-functional system characteristics like performance, scalability, and operability.
Mentor engineers and provide coaching to strengthen the technical expertise of the broader community.
Create technical documentation, code samples, and blog posts to share knowledge across the organization.
Collaborate with leadership to define long-term platform strategies and API standards.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
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).
At least 9 years of experience in data architecture.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (preferred).
12+ years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, and cloud computing (preferred).
12+ years of professional experience in coding, database management, system development lifecycles, networking protocols, and mentoring others (preferred).