Senior Distinguished Software Engineer

Date PostedMay 1, 2026LocationRemote, Chicago IL, or McLean VACompanyCapital OneSalaryRemote/Chicago: $286,200 - $326,700; McLean: $314,800 - $359,300TypeSenior Level

Job Summary

As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer, you will architect the strategic modernization of core credit card platforms to ensure industry-leading architectural resilience and performance. You will lead the technical orchestration and horizontal scaling for complex cloud-native ecosystems. This role serves as a trusted advisor to define technical vision and engineering excellence across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical vision and strategy
  • Architect resilient, cloud-native platforms
  • Lead technical orchestration and scaling
  • Mentor engineering community

Required Skills

  • Java, Python, or Go
  • Enterprise architecture & design patterns
  • Public/Private cloud technologies
  • Distributed systems scaling

Job Details

Key responsibilities: - 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 Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree - At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture - At least 9 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns - Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field - 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go - 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support - 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies - 5+ years of experience architecting and leading the large-scale modernization of complex, legacy platforms into resilient, cloud-native environments - 5+ years of experience building high-performance distributed systems capable of seamless horizontal scaling to support massive transaction volumes and global-scale data throughput