Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Developer Enablement

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

As a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers, and people leaders. Our Senior Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate, and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Senior Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms, and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts, and other materials to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Distinguished Engineer, you will join the Developer Experience organization within the Enterprise Platform Technology (EPTech) line of business. You will own and execute on high-priority initiatives that enable developers to be more productive, while influencing across the enterprise to drive our Developer Experience strategy. Specifically, you will be partnering closely with cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, providing technical guidance to teams, and defining the strategy for how we develop and maintain software at Capital One, paying special attention to how we ensure software stays current while minimizing the effort required of developer teams to do so.

You will drive adoption of low surface area container images (“distroless”), standardize software build processes with technology like CNCF Buildpacks, and move up the stack from the automated update of base images that we have today, to addressing all types of software dependencies at scale, for all applications developed at Capital One. Experience with tools that automate dependency updates, as well as an understanding of how Generative AI might play a role in software updates will be valuable.

This role will be responsible for:

• Big picture thinking
• Strategic direction
• Presenting to executive stakeholders
• Holding engineering teams accountable for overarching delivery goals
• Articulating and evangelizing a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decomposing complex problems into practical and operational solutions
• Ensuring the quality of technical design and implementation
• Serving as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability, and operability
• Continuing to learn and inject advanced technical knowledge into our community
• Handling several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
• Acting as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of experience with software engineering or software development
• At least 5 years of experience in a relevant technical field.

Company Information

Capital One