Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

The role

You will set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services. You will define patterns and standards for compute, network and edge, and stateful services while acting as a senior technical voice. This is a hands-on role involving writing design docs, prototyping, and responding to serious incidents.

What you will do

• Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services
• Define patterns, standards, and guardrails across compute, network and edge, and stateful services
• Represent Infrastructure Services in cross-organization reviews
• Serve as an escalation point for major incidents
• Lead cost, capacity, and efficiency strategy for the cloud footprint
• Drive adoption of automation and AI-assisted operations
• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers
• Write design docs, prototype, and review designs
• Step into serious incidents

Required qualifications

• Set technical direction across multiple teams
• Owned an infrastructure strategy or architecture spanning several teams or an entire organization
• Operated Kubernetes at production scale
• Working fluency in networking and edge and in stateful data systems
• Defined SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Improved incident response, post-incident learning, and disaster recovery across an organization
• Cut cloud costs through engineering
• Proficient in Go (or a similar language)
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Automated complex, high-toil operational workflows at fleet scale
• Influenced without relying on authority

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
• Helping build AI-assisted operations tools
• Operating highly available, multi-region services in a large SaaS environment
• Experience in a security, identity, or other high-trust product environment

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Dental
• 401k (USA) or RRSP (Canada)
• Generous paid time off
• Equity grant
• Incentive programs
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• Retirement matching program
• Free 1Password account
• Paid volunteer days
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
• Remote-first work environment

Before you apply

• Must be able to work from your home country
• Join live interviews without using AI tools
• Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check

About the company

1Password builds the foundation for a safe, productive digital future through enterprise password management and Unified Access Management. The company is a cybersecurity brand trusted by over 180,000 businesses.