Senior Staff Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering

Capital One Financial

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Work type: On-site
Location: Richmond, VAPlano, TXMcLean, VA
Salary: $314,800–$359,300 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $337k

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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $176,830–$226,850 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $337k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

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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

Capital One Financial currently has 998 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering

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Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Resilience 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 outages, and perform systemic root cause analyses to resolve underlying infrastructure weaknesses. You will proactively define and champion standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering to build fault-tolerant systems. The role requires extensive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, and cloud computing across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. You will also be expected to possess proficiency in languages such as Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Swift. This position focuses on the technical challenge of ensuring high availability and operational maturity for critical banking infrastructure while mentoring others and promoting engineering excellence through code samples and documentation.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Virginia?

Median $211200 from 265 postings across 15 companies.

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Skills

AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Java Python Go JavaScript TypeScript Swift Cloud Computing Solution Architecture Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns Observability Disaster Recovery Chaos Engineering

What you'll do

Serve as the technical authority for enterprise critical platforms during high-severity outages.
Lead cross-functional teams to resolve architectural weaknesses through systemic root cause analyses.
Define and champion enterprise-wide standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering.
Develop practical, reusable solutions to complex problems while ensuring quality of technical design.
Act as a trusted advisor by creating code samples, blog posts, and documentation to share knowledge.
Mentor internal talent and coach the engineering community to strengthen their technical expertise.
Advocate for a bold technical vision regarding non-functional system characteristics like performance and scalability.

What we're looking for

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).
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).
10+ years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture (preferred).
10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) (preferred).
10+ years of professional experience coding in languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Swift (preferred).

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