Principal Engineer, Product Engineering

The role

A senior individual contributor role to define technical direction for core product experiences. You will drive architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction across the product ecosystem including client applications, distributed services, and data platforms.

What you will do

• Define architecture and technical direction for core product capabilities
• Establish engineering standards and reusable architectural patterns
• Drive long-term technical strategy across critical product areas
• Partner with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Data teams
• Guide integration of AI-powered capabilities into product experiences
• Define engineering expectations for AI-enabled product systems
• Establish shared platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns
• Influence architectural decisions around distributed systems and scalability
• Help teams navigate technical tradeoffs and reduce systemic complexity
• Mentor and influence engineers through technical leadership and design guidance

Required qualifications

• Designed and operated large-scale distributed systems
• Experience driving architecture and technical direction across multiple teams or organizations
• Strong systems-thinking instincts regarding platform boundaries and distributed systems
• Experience building customer-facing product systems across clients, APIs, services, and data platforms
• Experience building or scaling event-driven systems, microservices, or shared platform infrastructure
• Practical experience integrating AI or ML capabilities into production applications
• Strong instincts for privacy-preserving and security-conscious system design
• Effective at driving alignment across teams with different incentives
• Communicate clearly with engineers, executives, and cross-functional partners
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity

Nice to have

• Experience 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
• Experience building cross-platform applications or shared platform architectures at scale
• Experience with developer platforms, internal engineering frameworks, CI/CD systems, or large-scale infrastructure modernization
• Experience integrating LLMs or AI-assisted workflows into customer-facing SaaS applications
• Experience with endpoint trust, browser or extension security, enterprise administration workflows, or device posture systems
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the engineering bar

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Dental
• 401k (USA) or RRSP (Canada)
• Generous paid time off
• Equity grant
• Incentive programs
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• RSU program for most employees
• Retirement matching program
• Free 1Password account
• Paid volunteer days
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly

Before you apply

• Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check

About the company

1Password is a cybersecurity company that builds the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. They provide enterprise password management and Unified Access Management to over 180,000 businesses.