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Principal Engineer, Product Engineering

1Password· Technology
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Remote$246k - $369kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor role shaping technical direction across Product Engineering, aligning architecture, standards, and cross-cutting initiatives to build secure, reliable, scalable product experiences, with focus on AI integration, cross-team collaboration, and enterprise-scale reliability.

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 across Product Engineering.
  • Drive long-term technical strategy across critical product areas, balancing immediate delivery needs with scalability, operational excellence, and platform sustainability.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Data teams to ensure technical decisions support customer outcomes and long-term operational durability.
  • Guide how AI-powered capabilities are integrated into customer-facing product experiences, ensuring systems are reliable, observable, operationally safe, and aligned with customer trust expectations.
  • Define engineering expectations for AI-enabled product systems, including evaluation frameworks, rollout safety, telemetry, fallback behavior, auditability, and operational controls.
  • Establish shared platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns that allow teams to build product features consistently across clients, services, APIs, and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Influence and drive key architectural decisions around distributed systems design, event-driven architectures, synchronization models, scalability, performance, reliability, extensibility, and platform interoperability.
  • Help teams navigate difficult technical tradeoffs, unblock large cross-functional initiatives, and reduce systemic engineering complexity across the organization.
  • Raise the operational bar for production systems through stronger reliability practices, observability standards, incident readiness, performance analysis, and engineering discipline.
  • Mentor and influence engineers across the organization through technical leadership, architecture reviews, design guidance, and hands-on problem solving.

Qualifications

  • Designed and operated large-scale distributed systems with emphasis on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
  • Strong experience driving architecture and technical direction across multiple teams, organizations, or product domains.
  • Deep systems-thinking instincts for 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 tradeoffs for trust-sensitive product experiences.
  • Strong privacy-preserving and security-conscious design instincts, including telemetry, user data, permissions, and auditability.
  • Ability to drive alignment across teams with different incentives and priorities.
  • Clear communication with engineers, executives, and cross-functional partners; ability to explain complex tradeoffs practically.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping organizations make durable technical decisions.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and operationArchitecture leadership across multiple teams/domainsAI/ML integration into productionSecurity-first designCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing benefits (competitive health benefits)
  • Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
  • Generous PTO policy
  • RSU program for most employees
  • Retirement matching program
  • Free 1Password account
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
  • Remote-first work environment
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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