Staff Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Work type: On-site
Location: McLean, VANew York, NYRichmond, VA
Salary: $269,100–$307,200 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $208k

This role $288k

$151k most similar roles pay here $324k

This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $182,500–$233,137 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $288k versus about $208k 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 1744 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 948 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer

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Staff Engineer serves as a technical expert within a team of developers and machine learning experts focused on modernizing banking systems in the cloud. You will lead the strategy and execution for next-generation CI/CD pipelines, microservices architectures, and AI-augmented developer tooling while transitioning monolithic systems into event-driven platforms. The role involves designing Intent-Driven Infrastructure to automate provisioning and optimizing non-functional system characteristics like scalability and performance. You will act as a trusted advisor, mentoring engineers and creating technical content to share knowledge across the organization. Required skills include expertise in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), data architecture, and software engineering. Preferred technologies include Go, Java, Python, Rust, C#, Scala, TypeScript, and Kubernetes. You will solve complex problems by bridging the gap between deep technical implementation and business value to reduce feature lead times.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 231 postings across 56 companies.

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Skills

CI/CD Microservices Kubernetes Docker Terraform AWS Azure GCP Python Go Java TypeScript JavaScript Rust C# Scala Machine Learning Data Architecture

What you'll do

Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for next-generation CI/CD pipelines and microservices architectures.
Champion the transition toward Intent-Driven Infrastructure using AI and automation to optimize platform provisioning.
Decompose complex technical problems into practical, operational solutions while ensuring high quality in design and implementation.
Act as a technical authority on non-functional system characteristics including performance, scalability, and operability.
Mentor engineers and serve as a force-multiplier by coaching peers and improving the team's technical expertise.
Bridge the gap between technical implementation and business value to reduce feature lead times for executive leadership.
Create technical content such as code samples and blog posts to share knowledge across the organization.
Drive the modernization of monolithic systems into event-driven platforms and microservice architectures.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (preferred).
10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture (preferred).
10+ years of professional experience coding in languages such as Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, or Scala (preferred).
8+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps toolchains, containerization, and microservices orchestration (preferred).
6+ years of experience designing Intent-Driven Infrastructure or declarative configuration platforms (preferred).
3+ years of experience in AI Augmented Software Development and 5+ years of mentoring senior engineers (preferred).

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