Principal Engineer, Product Engineering

About the role

The Principal Engineer will define the technical direction for core product experiences at 1Password, operating as a senior individual contributor across the organization. This role involves driving architecture, engineering standards, and technical strategy across client applications, distributed services, and data platforms. The successful candidate will balance product velocity with engineering durability while guiding the integration of AI capabilities into secure, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and technical direction for core product capabilities spanning clients, distributed services, data platforms, and shared infrastructure.
• Establish engineering standards and reusable architectural patterns for scalable, maintainable, and resilient product systems.
• Drive long-term technical strategy across critical product areas, balancing immediate delivery needs with operational excellence.
• Partner with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Data teams to ensure technical decisions support customer outcomes.
• Guide the integration of AI-powered capabilities into customer-facing product experiences to ensure reliability and operational safety.
• Influence distributed systems design, event-driven architectures, and platform interoperability.
• Mentor and influence engineers across the organization through technical leadership, architecture reviews, and design guidance.

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Systems thinking
• Cloud infrastructure
• Microservices
• Event-driven systems
• API design
• AI/ML integration
• Security-conscious design

Nice to have

• Identity and authentication
• Secrets management
• Enterprise security
• Multi-region systems
• CI/CD
• LLM integration
• Endpoint trust

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401k
• RRSP
• Paid time off
• Equity grant

About the Company

1Password is a cybersecurity company that provides a market-leading enterprise password manager and Unified Access Management solutions. Trusted by over 180,000 businesses, the company focuses on building secure, human-centric digital experiences for employees and AI agents.