Senior Cloud Platform Architect – Scale & Reliability

1Password LLC; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 334,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

401k retirement plan

RSU program

Free 1Password account

Paid volunteer days

Bonusly recognition

Remote-first culture

Job summary

1Password is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to set multi-year infrastructure strategy across Compute, Network and Stateful services. You’ll partner with engineering leadership, security, and finance to balance reliability, security, cost and delivery speed.

This hands-on role writes design docs, prototypes, and reviews complex designs, while empowering many teams to be more productive and reliable for years to come.

Qualifications

• Own infrastructure strategy across multiple teams with measurable outcomes.
• Experience operating Kubernetes at production scale (multi-cluster, multi-tenant).
• Fluent in networking, edge, and stateful data systems and their interdependencies.
• Defined SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; drove reliability across teams.
• Demonstrated cloud cost optimization with capacity planning and forecasts.
• Built security by design with least-privilege IAM and strong isolation.
• Proficient in Go and IaC (Terraform) with automation of complex workflows.
• Mentored Senior and Staff engineers and helped scalable hiring decisions.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year technical strategy for Infrastructure Services with leadership.
• Define patterns and guardrails across compute, network, edge, and stateful services.
• Represent the platform in cross-org reviews with product, security, and finance.
• Escalate major incidents and drive organization-wide reliability improvements.
• Lead cost, capacity, and efficiency strategy for cloud footprint.
• Drive automation and AI-assisted operations to reduce toil and improve reliability.

Skills

Infrastructure strategy

Multi-team leadership

Kubernetes production scale

Networking & edge

Reliability engineering

Cloud cost optimization

Security by design

Go programming

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Go

Job description

1Password is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to set multi-year infrastructure strategy across Compute, Network and Stateful services. You’ll partner with engineering leadership, security, and finance to balance reliability, security, cost and delivery speed.

This hands-on role writes design docs, prototypes, and reviews complex designs, while empowering many teams to be more productive and reliable for years to come.