Senior Distinguished Engineer – Automated Governance (Remote-Eligible)

Capital One is a leading financial institution, and they are seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer to lead the technical vision for automated governance and software supply chain integrity. This role involves engineering systems that ensure compliance seamlessly integrates into the developer workflow while maintaining auditability for regulators.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer Automated Governance: Lead the strategy for systems that treat compliance as a data problem. You will design frameworks that integrate directly into the developer workflow, ensuring code meets compliance requirements from the moment it's written—without manual intervention
• Define Agentic Safety: Partner with Agentic Platform and Risk teams to build the verification systems that ensure agentically-produced code meets our quality and compliance bar. You will design the frameworks that maintain perfect traceability of requirements and outcomes, regardless of whether the contributor is human or AI
• Simplify Regulatory Complexity: Translate complex regulatory requirements into elegant, automated technical solutions. You will build structure in ambiguity, creating systems that satisfy auditors while empowering engineers to move fast
• Drive Technical Impact: Operate as a hands-on leader, driving the implementation of critical solutions. You will review architectures, design control frameworks, and ensure our tooling meets the highest standards of reliability and performance
• Bridge Engineering and Risk: Partner with Risk Management, SDLC Policy, Cyber, and Audit teams to align technical strategies with business outcomes. You will ensure our engineering practices remain ahead of the regulatory curve, translating policy requirements into platform capabilities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering, including experience in designing and scaling backend systems, security protocols, or data platform
• At least 7 years of experience building and optimizing resilient, production-critical infrastructure
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3 + Years of experience in complex regulated environments
• 2 + year experience designing compliance-as-code or automated governance frameworks that process high volumes (millions of daily validations) at enterprise scale
• Proven ability to identify systemic risks and drive solutions across organizational boundaries, translating between technical and policy stakeholders