Capital One
Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer, Global Payments Network
$315K–$392K
McLean, VA +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
New York, NY - Experience
- At least 9 years in all listed basic-qualification areas; preferred: 12+ years in all listed preferred-qualification areas.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; preferred: Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Architect and deliver the real-time and batch data platform for Capital One’s Global Payment Network, including pipelines, a unified data model, and catalog and metadata services.
What you'll do
- Design event-driven pipelines and set architecture standards for streaming, storage, and low-latency serving.
- Define a canonical data model and build catalog, metadata, lineage, and data-contract capabilities for downstream teams.
- Partner with fraud, analytics, and modeling teams; provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 12+ years of experience in the listed disciplines, plus experience with real-time streaming, distributed storage and metadata systems, canonical data models, or high-availability systems in regulated domains.
Pay
$314,800 - $359,300 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $343,400 - $392,000 USD base salary (New York, NY)
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg
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