[Remote] Senior Platform Engineer (Network and Edge Services)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 1Password is a rapidly growing company with a mission to enhance digital safety and productivity. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build self-service platforms and a secure network foundation, focusing on network infrastructure across various technologies such as DNS and service mesh.
Responsibilities
- Deliver network stack projects end-to-end (service mesh, DNS, ingress/egress, CDN, edge protection, L4/L7 policy). Shape technical vision, execute delivery, and maintain operability
- Integrate networking into self-service platforms, streamlining workflows and enabling engineering teams to operate independently
- Participate in the on-call rotation, driving incident resolution and continuous improvement through postmortem analysis
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners in security, platform, and product engineering. Translate their needs into well-defined work and keep them informed about priorities, progress, and risks
- Foster a collaborative team culture by conducting design reviews, sharing knowledge, and mentoring. We value engineers who teach as much as they build
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud networking and distributed systems at SaaS or similar scale, with expertise in architecting and debugging across the stack
- Deep knowledge of internet architecture and modern web services (DNS, CDN, WAF, Load Balancing, Ingress, Service Mesh), and demonstrated ability to deliver reliable, observable, and secure infrastructure
- Proficiency in Go (or similar languages) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), with a track record of building automation and platform tooling
- Experience building reliable, observable platforms, defining SLIs/SLOs, and establishing these practices as team standards
- On-call experience, including incident resolution and driving architectural improvements through postmortems and technical decision-making
- Consistently apply a security-first approach, implementing least-privilege policies, ensuring encryption in transit, and evaluating attack surfaces as part of standard design practices
- Experience designing self-service network abstractions (DNS provisioning, ingress configuration, network policy tooling) that empower internal teams
- Experience with CDN, edge protection (cache strategy, WAF, origin shielding), VPNs, and wide-area connectivity in cloud environments
- Familiarity with tools like Envoy, Linkerd, Cloudfront, or Cloudflare
- Open source contributions and experience applying compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) to networking and policy as code
Benefits
- Immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others)
- Utilization of our generous paid time off
- An equity grant
- Participation in our incentive programs
- Immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others)
- Utilization of our generous paid time off
- An equity grant
- Participation in our incentive programs
- 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
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