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# Director, Software Engineering (Security)

- **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation
- **Location:** Plano, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $269,100.0 - $307,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Application Firewall, Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Network Security, Software Engineering, Wide Area Networks, Wi-Fi Technology, Network Access Control, Data Center Networking, Information Technology, Low Latency, Microservices
- **Published:** July 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.capitalonecareers.com/job/mclean/director-software-engineering-security/1732/97570474272

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree
 * At least 7 years' experience in software development
 * At least 5 years' experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Master's Degree in Computer Science or a Master's Degree in Software Engineering
 * 10+ years' of experience in software development
 * 5+ years' of experience in Agile practices
 * 3+ years' of experience in security engineering and architecture
 * 3+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)

## Description

As a Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on everything from security platforms to cloud and software development, building Capital One's future state security capabilities. You will lead the creation of a future-state Security Service Edge (SSE) and network security platform designed to abstract and simplify complex security functions across the enterprise. Moving beyond traditional siloed security, you will build a highly scalable, low-latency, and self-service platform that handles everything from Web Application Firewalls and Bot Protection to Network Access Control.

You will:

 * Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers.
 * Build software services and platforms.
 * Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
 * Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios, vendor technology recommendations and evaluations.
 * Implement software engineering best practices and continuously improve them.
 * Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies
 * 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
 * Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
 * Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
 * Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices


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