Productive businesses use 1Password to secure employees at scale.
Principal Engineer – Product Engineering
Location
California
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$246K - $369K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Engineer – Product Engineering
1Password
• Define the technical direction for core product experiences at 1Password. • Drive architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction across the product ecosystem. • Ensure secure, reliable, performant, and maintainable systems throughout the product lifecycle. • Guide long-term architectural investments and establish operational standards for teams. • Evolve 1Password’s product architecture, including AI capabilities integration. • Balance product velocity with engineering durability and drive alignment across teams. • Influence key architectural decisions around distributed systems design and operational resilience. • Mentor engineers and influence technical leadership across the organization to improve operational and engineering standards.
Job Requirements
- Designed and operated large-scale distributed systems where reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence matter.
- Deep experience driving architecture and technical direction across multiple teams, organizations, or product domains.
- Strong systems-thinking instincts and ability to reason effectively about platform boundaries, distributed systems constraints, developer ergonomics, and long-term technical sustainability.
- Experience building customer-facing product systems across clients, APIs, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
- Experience building or scaling event-driven systems, microservices architectures, or shared platform infrastructure in production environments.
- Practical experience integrating AI or ML capabilities into production applications and understanding the engineering tradeoffs involved in introducing AI into trust-sensitive product experiences.
- Strong instincts for privacy-preserving and security-conscious system design, including thoughtful handling of telemetry, user data, permissions, and auditability.
- Effective at driving alignment across teams with different incentives, priorities, and technical perspectives.
- Clear communication with engineers, executives, and cross-functional partners to explain complex technical tradeoffs in practical terms.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping organizations make durable technical decisions before every variable is known.
Benefits
- Immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others)
- Utilization of our generous paid time off
- An equity grant during hire
- Participation in our incentive programs
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