Staff Software Engineer (Cloud Asset Intelligence)

About the role

Staff Software Engineer (Cloud Asset Intelligence)

As a Staff 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 Staff 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 delivering 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 engineers and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Staff 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.

The Staff Software Engineer will be a part of the Asset Management organization within the Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) line of business. In this role, you will define, architect, and drive the implementation of best practices for Asset Management, Security, and Compliance while leading various complex technical initiatives to include shaping scalable solutions. Additionally, you will mentor and provide technical direction to engineering teams across the organization to drive Operational Excellence and propel our Asset Transformation journey.

What You’ll Do:

- Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain

- Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions

- Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation

- Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability

- Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community

- Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact

- Act 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

- Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms

- Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards