Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer setting multi-year cloud infrastructure strategy at cybersecurity company 1Password. Driving Kubernetes reliability, security, cost efficiency, and platform standards across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services
Shape roadmap and investment decisions, including build-versus-buy decisions
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 the senior technical voice for the platform across the company
Write design documents and prototypes, review complex designs, and remain hands-on technically
Serve as an escalation point for major incidents
Drive organization-wide improvements to incident management, reliability targets, and disaster recovery
Lead cloud cost, capacity, and efficiency strategy with measurable goals
Drive automation and AI-assisted operations to reduce organizational toil
Mentor Staff and Senior engineers
Raise the bar on design review and engineering practices
Help hire and develop infrastructure leaders
Requirements
Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams or an entire organization
Experience owning multi-year infrastructure strategy or architecture
Production-scale Kubernetes experience in multi-cluster, multi-tenant, customer-traffic-bearing environments; EKS or similar managed platforms preferred
Deep knowledge of autoscaling, admission control, GitOps, workload identity, and fleet-wide cluster upgrades
Working fluency in networking, edge services, and stateful data systems
Experience defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets and driving organizational adoption
Experience improving incident response, post-incident learning, and disaster recovery across an organization
Demonstrable cloud cost reduction through capacity automation, right-sizing, architecture changes, or commitment strategy
Experience partnering with finance on forecasting and tradeoffs
Experience driving workload identity, least-privilege IAM and RBAC, credential rotation, and strong multi-tenant isolation
Proficiency in Go or a similar language
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform
Track record automating complex, high-toil operational workflows at fleet scale
Ability to write strategy and design documents, present to senior leaders, resolve technical disagreements, and build alignment
Experience mentoring Senior and Staff engineers and contributing to hiring and technical-talent evaluation
Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada; no work authorization, relocation assistance, or visa sponsorship provided
Successful completion of a background check required
Benefits
Health benefits
Dental benefits
401(k) or RRSP retirement program
Generous paid time off
Equity grant / RSU program
Incentive programs, where applicable
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
Travel for in-person engagement, including offsites, team meetings, and customer/industry events
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