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# Staff Software Engineer - Identity

- **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation
- **Location:** Plano, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $269,100.0 - $307,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Architecture, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Network Protocols, Productivity Software, Systems Development Life Cycle, Zero Trust Network Access, Scala (Programming Language), Software Engineering, TypeScript, Virtualization Technology, Rust (Programming Language), Google Cloud, Information Technology, Web Technologies, Machine Learning Operations, Golang
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/60398522-staff-software-engineer-identity

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
 * At least 7 years of experience in all of the following:
 + Software engineering and solution architecture
 + Enterprise architecture and design patterns
 + Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
 + Data architecture, * Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
 * 10+ years of experience in all of the following:
 + Software engineering and solution architecture
 + Enterprise architecture and design patterns
 + Web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
 + Designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
 + Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
 + Data architecture
 * 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript/Typescript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala
 * 8+ years of experience with database and database management systems
 * 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
 * 8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies
 * 10+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems
 * 5+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams
 * 2+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews and establishing coding and design standards
 * Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges

## Description

* Contextual & Adaptive Security: Design an authorization fabric that factors in multi-dimensional telemetry-including device posture, network risk, and user behavior-to make dynamic, risk-based access decisions.
 * Engineering Self-Sufficiency: Champion an "Identity-as-a-Service" internal culture, building developer-centric APIs and self-service capabilities that allow our product teams to move fast without compromising our rigorous regulatory guardrails.
 * Governance in a Regulated Landscape: Navigate the complexity of a highly regulated financial environment, ensuring that our leap into the future of IAM meets and exceeds the most stringent compliance and audit standards.

The Visionary We Need: You are a recognized leader in the Identity space who understands that the "Cloud Journey" is only the foundation. You have experience decoupling legacy monoliths, implementing Open Policy Agent (OPA) or similar policy engines, and building resilient, high-scale distributed systems. You don't just "manage" identity; you treat Identity as the core engine of a modern Zero Trust architecture.

Staff 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 materials 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.

What You'll Do:

 * Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
 * Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
 * Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
 * Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
 * Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
 * Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
 * Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
 * Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
 * Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
 * Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
 * Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements