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Sr. Director, Software Engineering

  2025-07-13     Capital One     San Francisco,CA  
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The Capital One machine learning platform organization manages our cloud-based enterprise ML+AI system providing users with tools necessary to develop and deploy machine learning and AI systems and workloads at scale. We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to manage and develop our software engineering teams to deliver foundational capabilities for our platform.

You will use your experience in building large scale and highly available distributed systems to develop our shared control plane and fleet management framework as well as distributed compute infrastructure. This foundational architecture 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. You will partner with senior stakeholders across product, TPM, engineering, data science disciplines, and other cross-functional leaders to establish and execute the vision for our platform foundations. 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 .

You will:

  • Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of platform focused software engineers
  • Work with product and other cross-functional partners to develop vision and roadmap for engineering teams and ensure timely execution
  • Continuously improve software engineering practices ranging from design to development to testing and deployment
  • Influence near and long term system design and architecture and lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
  • Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
  • Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
  • Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 9 years' experience in software development
  • At least 7 years' experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or a Master's Degree in Software Engineering
  • 13+ years' of experience in software development
  • 10+ years of experience with complex architectural patterns, building APIs, microservices, and event streams
  • 5+ years of AWS (or equivalent) cloud experience

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment

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.

Boston, MA: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

Cambridge, MA: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

McLean, VA: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

New York, NY: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

Richmond, VA: $280,600 - $320,200 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

San Francisco, CA: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

San Jose, CA: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

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. 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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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. 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).

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Director

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology

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