Senior Distinguished Engineer (Mobile Pipeline)

Overview

Senior Distinguished Engineer (Mobile Pipeline)

As a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

We are seeking a highly technical and deeply motivated Distinguished Engineer to lead the architecture, development and optimization of our Mobile CI/CD pipeline. You will be responsible for building highly scalable, reliable, and efficient mobile build, test and deployment systems ensuring high developer velocity and app quality at scale. Your work will directly impact developer productivity by reducing build times down to seconds, and help us to deliver best-in-class customer experiences with a high degree of frequency and reliability.

This role requires deep expertise in Mobile CI, infrastructure, automation, and distributed systems. 

As a Senior Distinguished Engineer, you will design next-gen, high-performance CI/CD infrastructure that will leverage deep OS-level optimizations, parallel execution, and distributed caching. Your work will serve as a force multiplier for our mobile developers building apps across Capital One.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Optimize Mobile CI/CD pipelines – Design and implement scalable, self-healing CI/CD systems capable of handling thousands of concurrent builds with minimal latency

• Low-Level Runtime & Compiler Optimizations – Fine-tune compilers to optimize build performance, reduce overhead, and enhance parallel compilation

• Bare-Metal & Kernel-Level Enhancements – Optimize build runners through bare-metal execution, low-latency I/O tuning, and custom kernel patches for high throughput build farms

• Advanced Build System Engineering – Improve systems such as: Bazel, Buck, Ninja, CMake, Gradle, Xcode, etc to build system performance with aggressive caching, precompiled headers, and distributed compilation 

• Optimized Dependency Management – Reduce dependency resolution overhead by leveraging customer package indexing, advanced artifact caching strategies, and build graph pruning

• Mobile CI/CD Infrastructure & Tooling – Build and scale highly efficient CI/CD systems leveraging Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc

• Scalability & Reliability - Ensure CI/CD high availability, performance, and fault tolerance through observability, intelligent autoscaling, and automated failure recovery

• Mobile Security & Supply Chain Integrity – Enhance code signing performance, secure provisioning workflows, and optimize binary size reduction with advanced compiler/linker techniques

• Cross-functional Leadership – Collaborate with mobile engineers, SREs, compiler/runtime teams, and platform engineers to define best practices and drive adoption of modern Mobile DevOps principles

• Incident Management & Reliability Engineering – Lead technical investigations for pipeline failures, reduce flakiness, and implement self-healing, failover mechanisms

• Continuous Improvement & Innovation – Drive adoption of cutting-edge build optimization techniques, conduct post-mortems, and iterate on mobile release engineering strategies

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree 

• At least 9 years years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering with strong focus on mobile build, compiler optimization, and release engineering

• At least 2 years of AWS experience  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 5+ years of experience with iOS and Android build systems (Xcode Build, Bazel, Buck, Gradle, etc) and package management (CocoaPods, SwiftPM, Maven, etc)

• 5+ years of experience in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-based CI/CD solutions such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins

• 4+ years of experience optimizing mobile test infrastructure(XCUITest, Espresso, Firebase Test Lab, etc)

• 4+ years experience working in large-scale, high-performance engineering teams, driving technical roadmaps and best practices

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: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr Distinguished Engineer

New York, NY: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer

San Francisco, CA: $336,700 - $384,200 for Sr Distinguished Engineer

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 theCapital 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 committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. 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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