Site Reliability Engineer 5

Capital One is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer 5. Level rates it ; you can apply on Capital One.

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Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Site Reliability Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

What You’ll Do:

Drive the architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems
Spearhead strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil and elevate platform efficiency
Lead crisis management, deep-dive RCA, and define system-wide outage prevention strategies
Define and govern the secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy and maturity roadmap
Establish organization-wide SLOs, driving accountability for reliability and error budget compliance
Serve as the primary technical mentor, scaling SRE talent and culture across engineering teams
Own and implement proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
At least 10 years of experience driving cross-organizational reliability strategy and defining multi-year technical roadmaps
At least 8 years of experience in global cloud architecture, optimization, and financial or security governance across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP)

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s Degree
4+ years of experience defining and driving organization-wide IaC/CI/CD strategies and best practices
Expert in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless)
Proven success leading the integration of SRE principles within mature Agile/Scrum development environments
Deep experience designing and implementing holistic observability and advanced, metrics-driven SLO frameworks
Expertise in implementing comprehensive security and compliance governance (Zero Trust, Secrets Management) in cloud environments
Demonstrated significant contribution to the open-source community or strategic internal platform innovation
Proven track record of designing, scaling, and operating critical production platforms with measurable reliability and efficiency gains
Experience leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI/Headless AI for advanced Operations automation
Hands-on familiarity with applying Generative AI/headless AI to enhance automation, code quality or operational workflow
Exceptional strategic and executive-level communication skills to influence technology decisions across the C-suite and partner organizations
Deep expertise in systems programming for designing and implementing production-grade platform services

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: $229,900 - $262,400 for Site Reliability Engineer 5

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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How we rate this

Site Reliability Engineer 5 at Capital One rates 18 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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