Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer (Remote)

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

Job summary

1Password is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to set multi‑year technology strategy for Infrastructure Services. You’ll influence compute, network, edge, and stateful platforms, partnering with leaders to balance reliability, security, and cost across the org.

You will write design docs, review complex designs, and resolve incidents, while making scalable improvements that empower many teams to work more effectively. Remote work across US and Canada is supported.

Qualifications

• Set technical direction across multiple teams and drive multi‑year outcomes.
• Operate Kubernetes at production scale with multi‑cluster, multi‑tenant environments.
• Combine depth with breadth in networking, edge, and stateful data systems and understand cross‑layer impact.
• Define SLIs, SLOs and error budgets; improve incident response and disaster recovery.
• Cut cloud costs via automation, right‑sizing and capacity planning with finance.
• Build security in by design: workload identity, least‑privilege IAM, RBAC and isolation.
• Proficient in Go and Terraform; automate complex, high‑toil operations at fleet scale.
• Mentor Senior/Staff engineers and help hire and develop talent.

Responsibilities

• Set multi‑year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services.
• Define patterns, standards, and guardrails across compute, network and edge, stateful services.
• Represent Infrastructure Services in cross‑organization reviews with product engineering, security, and finance; act as senior voice for the platform.
• Escalation point for major incidents; drive improvements in incident management and disaster recovery.
• Lead cost, capacity, and efficiency strategy for our cloud footprint with measurable goals.
• Drive automation and AI‑assisted operations to reduce toil across the org.
• Mentor Senior and Staff engineers and help shape hiring and engineering practice.

Skills

Kubernetes

Networking & edge

Go

Terraform

Reliability engineering

Security by design

Automation

Mentoring

Cloud cost optimization

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

Job description

1Password is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to set multi‑year technology strategy for Infrastructure Services. You’ll influence compute, network, edge, and stateful platforms, partnering with leaders to balance reliability, security, and cost across the org.

You will write design docs, review complex designs, and resolve incidents, while making scalable improvements that empower many teams to work more effectively. Remote work across US and Canada is supported.