Senior Lead Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Go, Java, Kubernetes, AWS)

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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Go, Java, Kubernetes, AWS)

**The Capital One machine learning platform organization manages our cloud-based enterprise ML+AI system providing users with development tools and runtime environments necessary to build and run machine learning and AI systems with large scale real-time and batch processing workloads.

We are seeking a Senior Lead Software engineer, who is passionate about working on large scale distributed systems to help develop foundational capabilities for our platform.**

You will use your experience to build large scale and highly available systems to develop our shared control plane and fleet management framework as well as distributed compute infrastructure.

Your foundational contributions will support our diverse offerings ranging from developer notebooks to model training to model inference and feature generation pipelines to pre-training and fine tuning Transformer architecture based models as well as generative AI inference applications.

Your depth of experience in technologies including Golang and Python programming languages, gRPC and REST web service frameworks, container (e.g., Kubernetes) and serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda) runtime environments, cloud databases and computer security will provide a multiplier effect to our organization.

**What You’ll Do**

+ Define control and data plane architecture blueprints and develop implementations that help us realize a highly available, large scale and a provably secure machine learning platform
+ Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and collaborate with a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices
+ Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community, and leading system design and code review sessions
+ Work cross-functionally with product and program management disciplines, to deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
+ Utilize programming languages like Go, Python, and Java, open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services to develop highly performant solutions

**Basic Qualifications**

+ Bachelor’s Degree
+ At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience (Internship experience does not apply)
+ At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Master’s Degree
+ 9+ years of experience in at least one of the following: Go, Java, or Python
+ 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
+ 2+ years of experience working with Kubernetes

**_Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position._**

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location.

Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $225,400 - $257,200 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Richmond, VA: $204,900 - $233,800 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

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.

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 (https://www.capitalonecareers.com/benefits) .

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

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp.

(COPSSC).

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