Capital One
Sr. Staff Engineer (Reliability Engineering)
$286K–$359K
Richmond, VA +2 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Location
- Richmond, VA
Plano, TX
McLean, VA - Experience
- At least 9 years in each of the listed basic-qualification areas. Preferred experience includes 12+ years in several areas, 10+ years in others, 7+ years mentoring senior engineers, and 3+ years leading cross-domain architectural reviews or setting standards.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; no equivalent-experience alternative stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads reliability engineering for critical enterprise platforms, directing incident response and root-cause resolution while setting reliability standards and guiding architecture and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-functional response to critical outages and drive systemic root-cause analysis and permanent fixes.
- Define enterprise standards for observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering; guide platform modernization and architecture strategy.
- Provide technical leadership through hands-on engineering, design review, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
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.
- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges.
Pay
USD $314,800 - $359,300 base salary (McLean, VA); USD $286,200 - $326,700 base salary (Plano, TX); USD $286,200 - $326,700 base salary (Richmond, VA)
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python
AI focus
Strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges is preferred.
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