Staff Engineer

Capital One Financial

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VANew York, NYRichmond, VA
Salary
$269,100–$307,200 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $200k
This role $288k
$143k most similar roles pay here $325k

This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $175,326–$224,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $288k versus about $200k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Capital One Financial

At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer As a Staff Engineer, you will join a team of technical experts to shape the future of banking in the cloud. You will serve as a trusted advisor and technical leader, prototyping new features, designing enterprise roadmaps for modern DevOps practices, and overseeing the scalability of distributed microservices within strict regulatory boundaries. Your daily work involves leading the strategy for next-generation CI/CD pipelines, implementing Intent-Driven Infrastructure, and deploying AI-augmented developer tooling such as automated code generation and smart test suites. You will utilize technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure to build a secure, developer-centric ecosystem. By bridging the gap between technical implementation and business value, you will solve complex problems related to infrastructure automation, security compliance, and reducing feature lead time in a highly regulated environment.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.

See salary data

What you'll do

  • Architect the long-term enterprise roadmap for modern DevOps practices, intent-driven cloud infrastructure, and next-generation CI/CD frameworks.
  • Spearhead the evaluation, customization, and deployment of secure AI-assisted software development tools and automated testing suites.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership to communicate technical strategies, ROI, and risk-mitigation frameworks.
  • Design and govern multi-tenant core-skills repositories and enterprise marketplaces while maintaining rigorous security standards.
  • Oversee the scalability, performance, and security of distributed microservices within strict regulatory and cybersecurity boundaries.
  • Mentor principal and senior engineers to foster a culture of engineering excellence and technical growth.
  • Prototype new features and systems while evaluating "build vs buy" decisions for core technologies.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
  • At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, or infrastructure engineering.
  • At least 5 years of experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains.
  • At least 4 years of experience with containerization and microservices orchestration in a cloud-native environment.
  • 6+ years of experience designing Intent-Driven Infrastructure or declarative configuration platforms.
  • 3+ years of experience in technical leadership roles influencing executive stakeholders on multi-million dollar initiatives.
  • 3+ years of experience in AI Augmented Software Development using AI Coding Assistant Tools and Spec Driven Development.
  • 5+ years of experience working within compliance, data privacy, and cybersecurity constraints of a highly regulated environment.

More like this

Similar roles

Staff Software Engineer

Circle

Remote (San Francisco, CA) +11 29 days ago $195,000$257,500
Go Java Blockchain Web3 RESTful API Microservices AWS Google Cloud Microsoft Azure Kubernetes EKS ECS SQL NoSQL System Design
7+ yrs exp Remote

Staff Software Engineer

PayPal

Austin, TX +1 10 days ago $160,500$238,700
Python RDBMS NoSQL Redis ElastiCache Hazelcast SQS Kafka RabbitMQ Pulsar AWS GCP Azure Terraform SDLC
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Staff Software Engineer

Warner Bros. Discovery

Remote (Atlanta, GA) 67 days ago
AWS JavaScript Docker Git API Design Data Modeling Scrum Kanban Cloud-native State Management Algorithms Data Structures
8+ yrs exp Remote

Staff Software Engineer

Cisco

Remote (Durham, NC) 43 days ago $151,600$222,400
AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Go Python Java Distributed Systems CI/CD Microservices REST RAG Multi-agent Frameworks
8+ yrs exp Remote

Staff Software Engineer

The Hartford

Hartford, CT +3 42 days ago $116,000$174,000
Generative AI Prompt Engineering AWS GCP Azure Python C# .NET Java Go Angular React Node.js RESTful APIs Microservices SQL Server Snowflake PostgreSQL MongoDB CI/CD
8+ yrs exp Hybrid

Staff Software Engineer

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle)

Remote (San Francisco, CA) +1 39 days ago $180,000$190,000
LLM RAG Prompt Engineering CI/CD CRM CMS Marketing Automation Analytics Observability
5+ yrs exp Remote