Staff Developer, SDLC Foundations

About the role

The Staff Developer on our SDLC Foundations team will play a foundational role in shaping how 1Password engineers build and ship features reliably and safely at scale. They will establish technical guardrails and best practices that ensure platform velocity does not come at the cost of reliability, security, or operational maturity. They will mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for platform thinking across the organization. They will influence roadmap decisions by grounding strategy in technical constraints and infrastructure opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs that span multiple product surfaces and teams.
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives that require alignment across frontend, backend, platform, and product stakeholders.
• Own architectural decisions that raise the bar for how engineers across 1Password build, ship, and operate software safely and confidently.
• Mentor engineers and help them grow in their craft.
• Influence roadmap decisions by grounding strategy in technical constraints and infrastructure opportunity.
• Stay hands-on in implementation work where architectural depth is required.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building and evolving platform-level services: feature flagging systems, telemetry, developer tooling, or experimentation infrastructure.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives that require alignment across frontend, backend, platform, and product stakeholders.
• Proven ability to design scalable backend services and APIs that span multiple product surfaces and teams.
• Experience with Go.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering direction beyond your immediate team, and to move ambiguous, high-impact problems forward with autonomy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in a production SaaS environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build shared understanding across engineering, product, and infrastructure stakeholders around complex technical decisions.
• Bonus points for experience building or migrating to centralized feature flag or A/B testing systems at scale, familiarity with schema type systems and cross-service type safety approaches, experience working on developer experience tooling, familiarity with Nix or monorepo tooling, experience with GitHub tooling and automations that facilitate and streamline the Software Development Lifecycle, and experience designing or operating telemetry systems.

Skills

• Experience with Go.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with AI and machine learning technologies, including natural language processing and predictive analytics.

Benefits

• Immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others).
• Utilization of our generous paid time off.
• An equity grant.
• Where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

Pay

The annual base salary for this role is between $192,000 USD and $278,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

Schedule

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.