Principal Engineer, Product Engineering at 1Password

Role overview

1Password is growing. We’ve surpassed $400M in ARR and we’re continuing to accelerate, earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four years in a row and teaming up with iconic partners like Oracle Red Bull Racing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build or lead technical work for product engineering architecture and leadership.
• Collaborate with product, security, design and engineering teams.
• Improve reliability, testing, automation, documentation and user experience.
• Translate customer and partner needs into maintainable product capabilities.

Qualifications

• You have designed and operated large-scale distributed systems where reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence matter.
• You have deep experience driving architecture and technical direction across multiple teams, organizations, or product domains.
• You have strong systems-thinking instincts and can reason effectively about platform boundaries, distributed systems constraints, developer ergonomics, and long-term technical sustainability.
• You have experience building customer-facing product systems across clients, APIs, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
• You have experience building or scaling event-driven systems, microservices architectures, or shared platform infrastructure in production environments.
• You have practical experience integrating AI or ML capabilities into production applications and understand the engineering tradeoffs involved in introducing AI into trust-sensitive product experiences.
• You have strong instincts for privacy-preserving and security-conscious system design, including thoughtful handling of telemetry, user data, permissions, and auditability.
• You are effective at driving alignment across teams with different incentives, priorities, and technical perspectives.
• You communicate clearly with engineers, executives, and cross-functional partners, and can explain complex technical tradeoffs in practical terms.
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping organizations make durable technical decisions before every variable is known.
• Experience in identity, authentication, authorization, secrets management, enterprise security, or trust-oriented product domains.
• Experience building large-scale event-driven or multi-region distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Experience building cross-platform applications or shared platform architectures at scale.
• Experience with developer platforms, internal engineering frameworks, CI/CD systems, or large-scale infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Experience integrating LLMs or AI-assisted workflows into customer-facing SaaS applications.
• Experience with endpoint trust, browser or extension security, enterprise administration workflows, or device posture systems.

Technology in this role

• CI/CD: Experience with developer platforms, internal engineering frameworks, CI/CD systems, or large-scale infrastructure modernization .
• CAN: You have strong systems-thinking instincts and can reason effectively about platform boundaries, distributed systems constraints, developer ergonomics, and long-term technical .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Principal Engineer, Product Engineering position at 1Password is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “1Password is growing. We’ve surpassed $400M in ARR and we’re continuing to accelerate, earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four years in a row and teaming up with iconic partners like Oracle Red Bull Racing.” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the technical area, but that label is only a.

Benefits

• We believe in working hard, and rewarding that hard work through our benefits. While not an exhaustive list, here is a glance at what we currently offer:
• 👶 Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• 📈 RSU program for most employees
• 🏆 Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
• 🌎 Remote-first work environment
• Some roles in our GTM team are currently being hired for in-person hybrid work in Toronto and Austin. These roles will specify on the posting.
• 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. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken or veteran status. Be yourself, find your people and share the things you love.
• Accommodation is available upon request at any point during our recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please speak to your talent acquisition partner or email us at nextbit@agilebits.com and we’ll work to meet your needs.
• Remote work is a part of our DNA. Given that our company was founded remotely in 2005, we can safely say we're experts at building remote culture. That said, remote work at 1Password does mean working from your home country. If you've got questions or concerns about this, your talent partner would be happy to address them with you.
• Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check that may consist of prior employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, publicly available social media, credit history, or other information, as permitted by local law.
• 1Password uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, including natural language processing and predictive analytics, to assist in the initial screening of employment applications and improve our recruitment process. See here for the latest third party bias audit information. If you prefer not to have your application assessed using AI/ML features, you may opt out by completing this form . For additional information see our Candidate Privacy Notice .

About 1Password

1Password builds identity and access security products for organisations worldwide.

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