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Capital One Distinguished Engineer - Cybersecurity Cloud & Data Protection 
United States, Virginia, Arlington 
68129373

22.08.2025
Distinguished Engineer - Cybersecurity, Cloud & Data Protection

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.

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.

In this role, you will be a part of the Cyber Security Architecture organization focusing on shaping the Cyber Security agenda including the vision and capability growth across the domain. This domain covers the enterprise data protection platform inclusive of securing data access services, data loss prevention, and cloud protection.

Distinguished Engineers are:

  • Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices

  • Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates

  • Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

  • Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities

Responsibilities:

  • Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

  • Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others’ ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team

  • Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible

  • Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization

  • Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner

  • Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One’s Tech talent

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Degree

  • At least 9 years of experience in Software Engineering or Software Development

  • At least 5 years of public cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)

  • At least 3 years of experience with Security Engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Masters Degree

  • 12+ years of experience in Software Engineering or Software Development

  • 7+ years of experience in building distributed systems and highly available services using cloud computing services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

  • 5+ years of experience with Security Engineering

Chicago, IL: $239,900 - $273,800 for Distinguished Engineer McLean, VA: $263,900 - $301,200 for Distinguished Engineer Plano, TX: $239,900 - $273,800 for 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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