Principal Solutions Engineer, Emerging Technologies

About the role

As a Principal Solutions Engineer, you will help define how 1Password brings emerging technologies to market. You will work across product, marketing, and engineering teams to validate new capabilities, shape product direction through field feedback, and create repeatable customer-facing motions. This role focuses on strengthening secure access for people, machines, and AI agents while advancing the company's mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical validation for emerging products, strategic initiatives, and incubating technologies from early development through general availability.
• Partner with Product Management, Product Marketing, and Engineering to shape product direction and turn field feedback into actionable recommendations.
• Build repeatable discovery frameworks, demonstrations, technical messaging, reference architectures, and implementation guidance for the global Solutions Engineering organization.
• Design and deliver technical enablement, including workshops, labs, certifications, and playbooks that help Solutions Engineers confidently support new capabilities.
• Lead strategic customer engagements, private previews, beta programs, and early-adopter initiatives, providing executive-level technical guidance and influencing customer outcomes.
• Identify emerging market opportunities and represent 1Password through executive briefings, conferences, webinars, podcasts, customer events, and industry content.
• Mentor Solutions Engineers and lead cross-functional initiatives that accelerate adoption, strengthen technical excellence, and scale what works across the organization.

Required skills

• B2B SaaS
• Identity architectures
• OAuth
• OIDC
• SCIM
• APIs
• MCP
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure automation
• AI agents
• MEDDPICC

Nice to have

• Private previews
• Beta programs
• Technical enablement
• AI Security
• Developer Security
• Privileged Access
• SaaS Manager
• Unified Access Management
• Public speaking
• Technical writing

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401k
• RRSP
• Paid time off
• Equity grant
• Maternity and parental leave top-up
• Retirement matching
• Free 1Password account
• Paid volunteer days

About the Company

1Password is a cybersecurity company that builds tools for secure identity and access management. With over 180,000 business customers, the company focuses on a human-centric approach to product strategy and user experience to help teams securely adopt SaaS and AI tools.