Staff Engineer, Developer Insights & AI Telemetry

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NYMcLean, VARichmond, VAPlano, TX
Employment
Full-time
Posted
23 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 · Staff Engineer, Developer Insights & AI Telemetry

Staff Engineer -Developer Insights & AI Telemetry will join a team of technical experts to lead the strategy and implementation for the enterprise Developer Insights domain. This role focuses on building distributed AI telemetry, data engineering strategies, and ML/AI engineering to create an automated "Mission Control" layer for human-AI collaboration. You will architect long-term roadmaps for streaming data, develop LLM-as-a-Judge models to score code complexity, and manage the transition from batch reporting to real-time event-driven architectures using Medallion structures. The role requires expertise in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript, alongside experience with Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, ClickHouse, Snowflake, and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. You will solve complex problems regarding AI code density, risk governance, and PII masking while ensuring high-performance telemetry across global regions for multi-disciplinary users.

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What you'll do

  • Architect the long-term enterprise roadmap for distributed AI telemetry, streaming data engineering, and automated developer insight frameworks.
  • Evolve the internal developer telemetry platform into a stateless, low-latency system capable of handling billions of annual events.
  • Deploy advanced inference capabilities like LLM-as-a-Judge to score code complexity and calculate the ROI of generative AI tools.
  • Manage the end-to-end data strategy by transitioning from batch reporting to real-time event-driven architectures using a Medallion structure.
  • Link AI code density and telemetry data to core business outcomes like Feature Lead Time and PR cycle time.
  • Design and enforce privacy-by-design principles, including automated PII masking and secret filtering for engineering tools.
  • Provide direct technical contributions by prototyping systems, evaluating build vs. buy paths, and mentoring senior engineers.

What we're looking for

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related engineering discipline (preferred).
  • At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture.
  • At least 5 years of experience with big data engineering, distributed computing, or data architecture.
  • At least 3 years of experience with Big Data and data streaming.
  • At least 4 years of experience building and optimizing production-grade ML/AI lifecycles, pipelines, or frameworks.
  • At least 2 years of cloud computing experience (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud).
  • 10+ years of professional experience coding in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript (preferred).

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