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If you love building, pioneering in the technology space, and solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment, you will thrive at Capital One alongside a dynamic group of makers, breakers, doers, and disruptors. We are seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join our Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) Technology division, which is responsible for enabling and evolving Capital One’s foundational cloud infrastructure layer, including observability, connectivity, resilience, and availability. In this role, you will drive Capital One’s tech evolution by building well-architected solutions that empower our developers to innovate rapidly. Your critical priority will be designing AI-driven systems to automate and scale our governance and oversight, leading the creation of intelligent guardrails that ensure architectural excellence and compliance across all applications, and leveraging machine learning to deliver real-time insights and proactive risk management.

• Drive the Enterprise Vision: Shape and advance the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Enterprise Architecture tooling, transforming how application health, compliance, and governance are managed at scale.
• Establish Intelligent Guardrails: Design and champion enterprise-wide architectural patterns, utilizing automated, AI-driven solutions to enforce real-time governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across all Capital One applications.
• Pioneer Modern Paradigms: Infuse industry trends into our ecosystem—such as event-driven architectures, mesh data topologies, and next-gen cloud-native design—ensuring systems are resilient, highly secure, and horizontally scalable.
• Lead Complex Tech Initiatives: Oversee and de-risk the architectural design, testing, deployment, and optimization of highly critical distributed systems, microservices, and full-stack platforms.
• Be a Hands-On Catalyst: Maintain deep technical expertise and actively write code, conduct architecture reviews, create proofs-of-concept (PoCs), and rigorously evaluate codebases to validate technical directions.
• Master the Stack: Leverage a modern, robust tech stack utilizing programming languages like Java, Python, Go, and TypeScript, combined with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), open-source RDBMS/NoSQL databases, and advanced AWS cloud services.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate seamlessly with digital product managers, engineering teams, data scientists, and risk/governance partners to build secure fintech solutions that empower millions of customers.
• Scale Engineering Excellence: Act as a premier technical consultant and mentor across the broader engineering community, elevating technical standards, driving open-source contributions, and dismantling architectural silos.
• Foster Tech Culture: Share a relentless passion for staying ahead of the tech curve; experiment with emerging technologies (such as LLMs and automated compliance agents) and actively participate in internal and external tech communities.

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

• Master’s Degree
• 9+ years of experience with Golang and Python
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP or Microsoft Azure
• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

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

McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Plano, TX: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Richmond, VA: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.