Distinguished Engineer, Cyber Architecture

Capital One • San Jose, CA

1d • $244,700 - $335,100

About The Position

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions. At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community. Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization. The Distinguished Engineer for Cyber Architecture is responsible for leading technology driven outcomes for the Information Security organization and the Enterprise. This role works with stakeholders across the enterprise to enable the secure operation of our technology infrastructure and is a technical authority on cloud and product security architecture. If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
• At least 3 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
• 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 in cybersecurity
• 3+ years of experience in AWS cloud security services
• 3+ years of experience with financial service compliance regulations
• CISSP or SANS certifications
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise grade security solutions based on open source projects
• 3+ years of experience designing fully automated security solutions within a fully DevOps enterprise

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
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for our Endpoint Security, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Cryptography Services.
• Build capabilities to automate manual workflows within these programs to reduce toil and drive operational excellence and platform stability.
• Identify opportunities to develop custom software to build innovative cybersecurity solutions.
• Engage with the broader enterprise Distinguished Engineer community to ensure that security tooling is deeply integrated into the software development process.
• Create frameworks to continually evaluate and elevate our engineering maturity, and support growth and development of junior talent through formal and informal mentorship.

Benefits

• 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.
• Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees