[Hiring] Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer @1Password

Role Description

As a Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer, you set the multi-year technical strategy for Infrastructure Services. You decide where the organization invests, define the architecture and standards that every infrastructure team and internal tenant builds on, and ensure our compute, network and edge, and stateful platforms evolve as one coherent system rather than three separate ones. You partner with engineering and product leadership, security, and finance to balance reliability, security, cost, and delivery speed, and you are the senior technical voice for infrastructure across the company.

This is a hands-on role. You write design docs, prototype, review the hardest designs, and step into the most serious incidents. Your main impact comes from making many teams more effective and from the decisions that hold up for years.

Qualifications

• You have set technical direction across multiple teams.
• You have owned an infrastructure strategy or architecture spanning several teams or an entire organization, and you can point to the multi-year outcomes: what others adopted, what shipped, and what measurably improved.
• You have operated Kubernetes at production scale, including multi-cluster, multi-tenant, customer-traffic-bearing environments (EKS or similar managed platforms preferred).
• You combine depth with breadth in networking, edge, and stateful data systems.
• You have made reliability a standard, defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• You have cut cloud costs through engineering.
• You build security in by design.
• You are proficient in Go (or a similar language) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• You influence without relying on authority.
• You grow other engineers.

Requirements

• 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

• USA-based roles: Annual base salary between $230,000 USD and $334,000 USD, plus participation in benefits program (health, dental, 401k, etc.), generous paid time off, equity grant, and incentive programs.
• Canada-based roles: Annual base salary between $202,000 CAD and $293,000 CAD, plus participation in benefits program (health, dental, RRSP, etc.), generous paid time off, equity grant, and incentive programs.
• Health and wellbeing: Maternity and parental leave top-up programs, competitive health benefits, generous PTO policy.
• Growth and future: RSU program for most employees, retirement matching program, free 1Password account.
• Community: Paid volunteer days, peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly, remote-first work environment.

Company Description

At 1Password, we prioritize collaboration, clear and transparent communication, receptiveness to feedback, and alignment with our core values: keep it simple, lead with honesty, and put people first.

1Password is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that is built on trust, support and respect.