Capital One Senior Distinguished Engineer Mobile Pipeline 

United States, New York, New York 

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Senior Distinguished Engineer (Mobile Pipeline)

This role requires deep expertise in Mobile CI, infrastructure, automation, and distributed systems.

As a Senior Distinguished Engineer, you will design next-gen, high-performance CI/CD infrastructure that will leverage deep OS-level optimizations, parallel execution, and distributed caching. Your work will serve as a force multiplier for our mobile developers building apps across Capital One.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Optimize Mobile CI/CD pipelines – Design and implement scalable, self-healing CI/CD systems capable of handling thousands of concurrent builds with minimal latency

• Low-Level Runtime & Compiler Optimizations – Fine-tune compilers to optimize build performance, reduce overhead, and enhance parallel compilation

• Bare-Metal & Kernel-Level Enhancements – Optimize build runners through bare-metal execution, low-latency I/O tuning, and custom kernel patches for high throughput build farms

• Advanced Build System Engineering – Improve systems such as: Bazel, Buck, Ninja, CMake, Gradle, Xcode, etc to build system performance with aggressive caching, precompiled headers, and distributed compilation

• Optimized Dependency Management – Reduce dependency resolution overhead by leveraging customer package indexing, advanced artifact caching strategies, and build graph pruning

• Mobile CI/CD Infrastructure & Tooling – Build and scale highly efficient CI/CD systems leveraging Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc

• Scalability & Reliability - Ensure CI/CD high availability, performance, and fault tolerance through observability, intelligent autoscaling, and automated failure recovery

• Mobile Security & Supply Chain Integrity – Enhance code signing performance, secure provisioning workflows, and optimize binary size reduction with advanced compiler/linker techniques

• Cross-functional Leadership – Collaborate with mobile engineers, SREs, compiler/runtime teams, and platform engineers to define best practices and drive adoption of modern Mobile DevOps principles

• Incident Management & Reliability Engineering – Lead technical investigations for pipeline failures, reduce flakiness, and implement self-healing, failover mechanisms

• Continuous Improvement & Innovation – Drive adoption of cutting-edge build optimization techniques, conduct post-mortems, and iterate on mobile release engineering strategies

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 9 years years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering with strong focus on mobile build, compiler optimization, and release engineering

• At least 2 years of AWS experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 5+ years of experience with iOS and Android build systems (Xcode Build, Bazel, Buck, Gradle, etc) and package management (CocoaPods, SwiftPM, Maven, etc)

• 5+ years of experience in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-based CI/CD solutions such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins

• 4+ years of experience optimizing mobile test infrastructure(XCUITest, Espresso, Firebase Test Lab, etc)

• 4+ years experience working in large-scale, high-performance engineering teams, driving technical roadmaps and best practices

McLean, VA: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr Distinguished Engineer New York, NY: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer San Francisco, CA: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr Distinguished EngineerThis 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.

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

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