2 months ago
Remote, WorldwideStaff+
Base Salary
$246k - $369k/yr
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 while balancing product delivery, scalability, operational excellence, and platform sustainability.
- Partner with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Data teams on durable technical decisions.
- Guide the integration of AI-powered capabilities into customer-facing product experiences with appropriate reliability, observability, safety, and trust controls.
- Define expectations for AI-enabled systems, including evaluation frameworks, rollout safety, telemetry, fallback behavior, auditability, and operational controls.
- Establish shared platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns across clients, services, APIs, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Influence decisions involving distributed systems, event-driven architectures, synchronization, scalability, performance, reliability, extensibility, and interoperability.
- Unblock cross-functional initiatives and reduce systemic engineering complexity across the organization.
- Raise production reliability through observability standards, incident readiness, performance analysis, and stronger engineering practices.
- Mentor and influence engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, design guidance, and hands-on problem solving.
Requirements
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems where reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence matter.
- Deep experience driving architecture and technical direction across multiple teams, organizations, or product domains.
- Strong systems-thinking skills across 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.
- Practical experience integrating AI or ML capabilities into production applications, including understanding related engineering tradeoffs.
- Experience with privacy-preserving and security-conscious system design, including telemetry, user data, permissions, and auditability.
- Ability to drive alignment across teams and communicate complex technical tradeoffs to engineers, executives, and cross-functional partners.
- Experience in identity, authentication, authorization, secrets management, enterprise security, or trust-oriented products is a bonus.
- Experience with large-scale event-driven or multi-region distributed systems in cloud environments is a bonus.
- Experience with cross-platform applications, developer platforms, internal engineering frameworks, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure modernization is a bonus.
- Experience integrating LLMs or AI-assisted workflows into customer-facing SaaS applications is a bonus.
- Experience with endpoint trust, browser or extension security, enterprise administration workflows, or device posture systems is a bonus.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards across organizations is a bonus.
Benefits
- Remote opportunity within Canada and the US with a remote-first work environment.
- Travel may be required for annual offsites, team meetings, and customer or industry events.
- Health, dental, retirement benefits or RRSP, generous paid time off, parental leave top-up programs, and retirement matching.
- RSU program for most employees, free 1Password account, paid volunteer days, and Bonusly peer recognition.
- Equity grant and, where applicable, participation in incentive programs.
- Background check required for successful applicants.
Categories
Product Engineering
About 1Password
Trusted by more than 180,000 businesses to protect their data, 1Password gives you complete control over passwords and other sensitive business information. As an integral layer of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) stack, 1Password protects all employee accounts – even those you aren’t aware of. Give employees secure access to any app or service and safely share everything you need to work together – including logins, documents, credit cards, and more – while keeping everything else private. 1Password is easy to deploy and integrates with Azure AD, Okta, OneLogin, and Slack, so you can automatically provision employees using the systems you already trust. It’s simple to manage and fits seamlessly into your team’s workflow, so you can secure your business without compromising productivity.