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Principal Engineer, Product Engineering

1PasswordRemote (United States | Canada)Technology
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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Posted
29 Jun 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

The Principal Engineer for Product Engineering at 1Password sets the technical direction and architecture for core product experiences across a distributed, remote environment in the United States and Canada. This senior individual contributor position suits an experienced technologist who can translate broad product strategies into highly scalable, reliable, and secure operational systems.

Role Overview

This position provides organization-level technical leadership rather than focusing on a single team or subsystem. The individual shapes how Product Engineering handles complex, cross-cutting problems, establishes architectural patterns, and guides long-term investments. Working across client applications, distributed services, data platforms, and shared infrastructure, the role requires balancing rapid product delivery with long-term engineering durability. Responsibilities also include steering the integration of artificial intelligence capabilities into core product experiences while maintaining strict security, privacy, and operational standards.

Key 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 scalability and platform sustainability.
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Data teams to support customer outcomes and operational durability.
Guide the integration of AI-powered capabilities into customer-facing product experiences to ensure reliability, observability, and operational safety.
Define engineering expectations for AI-enabled product systems, encompassing evaluation frameworks, rollout safety, telemetry, fallback behavior, and auditability.
Build shared platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns allowing teams to deliver product features consistently across clients, services, APIs, and AI workflows.
Drive key architectural decisions around distributed systems design, event-driven architectures, synchronization models, scalability, performance, and platform interoperability.
Help teams navigate complex technical tradeoffs, unblock large cross-functional initiatives, and reduce systemic engineering complexity.
Raise the operational bar for production systems through stronger reliability practices, observability standards, incident readiness, and performance analysis.
Mentor and influence engineers across the organization through technical leadership, architecture reviews, design guidance, and hands-on problem solving.

Requirements

Designed and operated large-scale distributed systems where reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence are critical.
Deep background in driving architecture and technical direction across multiple teams, organizations, or product domains.
Strong systems-thinking instincts with the ability to reason about platform boundaries, distributed constraints, developer ergonomics, and technical sustainability.
Experience building customer-facing product systems across clients, APIs, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
History of building or scaling event-driven systems, microservices architectures, or shared platform infrastructure in production environments.
Practical background in integrating AI or ML capabilities into production applications and understanding related engineering tradeoffs in trust-sensitive experiences.
Strong instincts for privacy-preserving and security-conscious system design, including the handling of telemetry, user data, permissions, and auditability.
Effective at driving alignment across teams with varying incentives, priorities, and technical viewpoints.
Clear communication skills with engineers, executives, and cross-functional partners to explain complex technical tradeoffs simply.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping organizations make durable technical decisions ahead of time.

Nice to Have

Background 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.
Background in building cross-platform applications or shared platform architectures at scale.
Familiarity 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.
Knowledge of endpoint trust, browser or extension security, enterprise administration workflows, or device posture systems.
Experience mentoring engineers and raising the engineering bar across organizations.

Skills and Tools

Distributed systems and microservices architectures
Event-driven systems and cloud infrastructure
API design and cross-platform client applications
Data platforms and shared infrastructure
AI and machine learning integration frameworks
Security, privacy, and auditability compliance tools
CI/CD systems and observability platforms

Salary and Benefits

For United States-based roles, the annual base salary ranges from $246,000 USD to $369,000 USD. For Canada-based roles, the annual base salary ranges from $228,000 CAD to $342,000 CAD. Additional compensation and benefits include immediate participation in health, dental, and retirement programs (such as 401k or RRSP), generous paid time off, an equity grant, and eligibility for incentive programs where applicable.

About the Company

1Password is a growing enterprise building the foundation for a secure, productive digital future with over $400M in ARR. Recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four consecutive years and partnered with iconic brands like Oracle Red Bull Racing, the company pioneered Unified Access Management. More than 180,000 businesses place their trust in 1Password to protect employee identities, application sign-ins, and trusted devices without sacrificing productivity.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should visit the official 1Password careers page to submit an application for this remote opportunity.

Questions candidates ask

Is this a remote position?

Yes, this is a remote opportunity available within the United States and Canada.

What is the salary range for US-based candidates?

The annual base salary for US-based roles is between $246,000 USD and $369,000 USD, plus benefits, equity grants, and incentive programs.

What is the salary range for Canada-based candidates?

The annual base salary for Canada-based roles is between $228,000 CAD and $342,000 CAD, plus benefits, equity grants, and incentive programs.

What type of role is this?

This is a senior individual contributor Principal Engineer role focused on Product Engineering and organization-level technical leadership.

How does 1Password use AI in its engineering workflows?

Engineering, Product, and Design teams use AI-assisted coding tools, automated code reviews, synthesized user research, and rapid prototyping while maintaining human accountability and rigorous security evaluations.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official 1Password careers page.

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