Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Our Infrastructure Services organization is responsible for the underlying infrastructure that powers the 1Password application, including Compute Services, Network and Edge Services, and Stateful Services. As a Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer, you set the multi-year technical strategy for Infrastructure Services, define the architecture and standards that every infrastructure team and internal tenant builds on, and make sure compute, network and edge, and stateful platforms evolve as one coherent system. This is a hands-on role: you write design docs, prototype, review the hardest designs, and step into the most serious incidents.

Responsibilities

Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services, including roadmap and investment decisions and build versus buy; Define patterns, standards, and guardrails across compute, network and edge, and stateful services; Represent Infrastructure Services in cross-organization reviews with product engineering, security, and finance; Serve as an escalation point for major incidents and drive organization-wide improvements to incident management, reliability targets, and disaster recovery; Lead cost, capacity, and efficiency strategy for the cloud footprint with measurable goals; Drive adoption of automation and AI-assisted operations to reduce toil; Mentor Staff and Senior engineers and help hire and develop the next generation of infrastructure leaders

Requirements

Set technical direction across multiple teams, including owning an infrastructure strategy or architecture spanning several teams or an entire organization; Operated Kubernetes at production scale, multi-cluster, multi-tenant, customer-traffic-bearing environments (EKS or similar managed platforms preferred); Working fluency in networking and edge and in stateful data systems; Defined SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets and got multiple teams to adopt them; Improved incident response, post-incident learning, and disaster recovery across an organization; Cut cloud costs through engineering with measurable, real-dollar impact and worked with finance on forecasting and tradeoffs; Built security in by design, including workload identity, least-privilege IAM and RBAC, credential rotation, and strong isolation in multi-tenant environments; Proficient in Go (or a similar language) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform); Automated complex, high-toil operational workflows at fleet scale; Influenced without relying on authority, writing clear strategy and design documents and presenting to senior leaders; Mentored Senior and Staff engineers and raised the bar on design review

Nice to have

Hands-on experience with service mesh and service-to-service networking, such as Linkerd or Amazon VPC Lattice; Experience operating scalable database technology, such as MySQL, Postgres, or DynamoDB; Designing developer platform abstractions for internal teams, such as paved-road service toolkits and production readiness frameworks; Helping build AI-assisted operations tools, such as auto-remediation or AI-assisted diagnosis; Operating highly available, multi-region services in a large SaaS environment, including capacity planning and performance optimization at scale; Experience in a security, identity, or other high-trust product environment

Benefits

Maternity and parental leave top-up programs; Competitive health benefits; Generous PTO policy; RSU program for most employees; Retirement matching program; Free 1Password account; Paid volunteer days; Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly; Remote-first work environment