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Capital One Lead Software Engineer Data & AI – Capital One 
United States, Virginia, Richmond 
316099277

21.08.2025
Job Description

What You’ll Do

  • Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in large-scale distributed systems, data security and governance, and cloud-native architecture. Make impactful, hands-on contributions throughout the project lifecycle, from scoping, design to coding and operations.

  • Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies on Security Data Management Platform, Agentic AI, Cloud Data Warehouse, etc, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community.

  • Collaborate with product managers, translate product requirements into engineering tasks, make trade-off calls to balance delivery timelines and engineering best practices.

  • Own and drive cross functional partnerships with teams spanning Engineering, Platform, Design, Data Science, Security and GTM teams, and partner closely with theleadership/stakeholdersof various teams within these teams.

  • Drive innovations on building AI-enabled agents, fine-tune LLM models for data classification and sensitive data detection.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • At least 4 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)

  • At least 2 year experience with cloud computing(AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud).

  • At least 3 years experience in programming language; Java, Python, C++, Rust or Go.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree

  • Prior experience in building

    Data Security Posture Management
    (DSPM) system is a huge plus.

  • Proficient in SQL. Hands-on experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases.

  • Hands-on experience with Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Experience in cloud-based lakehouses such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Athena, etc.

  • Experience in open source data governance/catalog platforms such as Datahub, OpenMetadata or Atlas is a plus.

  • Hands-on experience in building production scale agentic AI systems. Familiar with tools such as Langchain, Langgraph, and MCP.

  • Hands-on experience in fine-tuning LLM, and deployed to productions to serve customers.

  • 2+ years of experience in Agile practices

This 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.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.