Distinguished Engineer

- Vision & Strategy: Architect the long-term enterprise roadmap for modern DevOps practices, intent-driven cloud infrastructure, and next-generation CI/CD frameworks.

- AI Tooling & Integration: Spearhead the evaluation, customization, and deployment of secure AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., automated code generation, smart test-suites, AI Hub extensions, and automated vulnerability scanning).

- Executive Influence & Collaboration: Act as a trusted advisor to technical executives and Line of Business leaders. Effectively articulate technical strategies, ROI, and risk-mitigation frameworks to non-technical stakeholders to secure funding and drive behavioral change across organizations.

- Inner sourcing & Governance: Design and govern multi-tenant core-skills repositories and enterprise marketplaces, enabling local domain teams to safely configure and contribute extensions while maintaining rigorous security standards.

- Microservices & Resiliency: Oversee the scalability, performance, and security of highly distributed microservices environments operating within strict regulatory and cybersecurity boundaries.

- Culture & Mentorship: Foster an inclusive engineering culture centered on a "fail-fast but securely" mentality. Mentor principal and senior engineers, raising the bar for technical excellence across the enterprise.

- 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 (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) in a cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related engineering discipline.

- 6+ years of experience designing Intent-Driven Infrastructure or declarative configuration platforms (e.g., advanced Terraform, Cross plane, or custom control planes) that decouple developer intent from infrastructure management.

- 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role directly influencing VP/SVP/Executive stakeholders on multi-million dollar technology initiatives.

- 3+ years of experience in AI Augmented Software Development using AI Coding Assistant Tools, Spec Driven Development

- 5+ years of experience within compliance, data privacy, and cybersecurity constraints of a highly regulated environment. Experience co-authoring risk assessments alongside Cyber and Risk teams.

- 5+ years of experience in establishing inner-source strategy frameworks, governing shared Git repositories, and defining tight developer feedback loops (including defining rigid SLAs for platform blockers).

- 5+ years of experience using advanced engineering telemetry systems to correlate technical platform upgrades directly to business metrics like Feature Lead Time (FLT) and deployment frequency.

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.