Capital One
Banking
DistinguishedEngineer
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“Distinguished Engineer at Capital One. Skills: Distinguished Engineer, Cloud, Reliability, Architecture. Define reliability roadmap. Implement reliability roadmap”
Industry & Context.
Devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems; Optimize business outcomes; Drive towards technology solutions; Reduce organizational toil; Maximize engineering velocity; Build smart systems that can adapt and recover; Evolve systems into intelligent co-pilots; Operate at the speed of well-managed systems; Focusing on risk, cost, and efficiency; Continuously instill engineering excellence
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's Degree, 7 years of experience in Software, Site Reliability (SRE), and Solution Architecture, 7 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, highly available system design, and design patterns, 5 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), 5 years of experience in Web technologies (Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks), 1 year of experience in leading and applying Generative AI/headless AI to enhance automation, code quality or operational workflow
Nice to Have
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field, 6+ years defining and executing multi-year, organization-wide IaC and CI/CD strategic roadmaps, Industry-recognized expert in optimizing hyper-scale distributed systems and advanced cloud-native architectures, Executive-level success integrating SRE models (SLOs, Error Budgets) to drive cultural and process transformation across engineering divisions, Authority in designing and deploying holistic, cost-optimized observability platforms and advanced, metrics-driven SLO governance, Visionary in cloud security, establishing comprehensive security and compliance governance (Zero Trust, Secrets Mgmt), Globally recognized contributor to open-source or history of pioneering strategic internal platform innovation, Track record of designing, scaling, and operating next-generation platforms, delivering measurable 5-10x reliability and efficiency gains, Pioneer experience leveraging Generative/Headless AI to achieve autonomous operations and predictive reliability
What You'll Do.
Define reliability roadmap
Implement reliability roadmap
Invent engineering solutions
Deliver engineering solutions
Reduce organizational toil
Maximize engineering velocity
Serve as escalation point
Codify best practices
Govern IaC/Platform strategy
Drive enterprise-wide adoption
Standardize multi-cloud environments
Establish reliability standards
Establish Error Budget governance
Align business objectives
Lead technical development
Establish FinOps governance
Establish capacity management
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work alongside developers; Work alongside machine learning experts; Work alongside product managers; Work alongside people leaders; Influence; Collaborate; Provide innovative solutions across organizational boundaries; Provide an inclusive environment; Champion ideas of others
Full Job Description
Distinguished Engineer As a **Distinguished Engineer** at Capital One, you will be a 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 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. **About the team:** Our mission in the R2E SRE organization is to protect our customers and our business by building smart systems that can adapt and recover with minimal impact. We are undergoing a massive technical transformation, shifting our approach to reliability from a back-end technical challenge into a front-end customer experience advantage. On this team, you will help lead the charge in evolving our systems into intelligent co-pilots that go far beyond basic alerting. You will architect solutions that operate at the speed of well-managed systems, focusing on risk, cost, and efficiency to continuously instill engineering excellence. 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. **Key responsibilities:** * Define and implement the multi-year reli
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