1password - Staff Developer, SDLC Foundations

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in a production SaaS environment. • Hands-on experience building and evolving platform-level services: feature flagging systems, schema management, developer tooling, or experimentation infrastructure. • Proven ability to design scalable backend services and APIs that span multiple product surfaces and teams. • Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives that require alignment across frontend, backend, platform, and product stakeholders. • Proficiency in Go. • Demonstrated ability to influence engineering direction beyond your immediate team, and to move ambiguous, high-impact problems forward with autonomy. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build shared understanding across engineering, product, and infrastructure stakeholders around complex technical decisions. • 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 (build tooling, local development environments, CI/CD, changelog automation). • Familiarity with Nix, monorepo tooling, or code generation frameworks (e.g., Typeshare). • What you can expect: • Play a foundational role in shaping how 1Password engineers build and ship features reliably and safely at scale. • Drive the evolution of the Feature Rollout Service (FRS) from a client-facing flag centralization service toward full service-to-service communication, retiring legacy patterns along the way. • Lead the architecture and delivery of the Experiment Platform (Horizon 1), enabling 1Password teams to run consistent, trustworthy experiments across product surfaces. • Partner with platform and product engineering teams to ship Typeshare 2.0, improving cross-language type safety and developer ergonomics. • Improve developer experience through org chart automation, schema type refactoring, and tooling that reduces friction and toil for engineering teams. • Establish technical guardrails and best practices that ensure platform velocity does not come at the cost of reliability, security, or operational maturity. • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for platform thinking across the organization. • Influence roadmap decisions by grounding strategy in technical constraints and infrastructure opportunity. • Stay hands-on in implementation work where architectural depth is required. • USA-based roles only: 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. • Canada-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $167,000 CAD and $242,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs. • At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set. • This posting is for an existing vacancy. • At 1Password, we prioritize collaboration, clear and transparent communication, receptiveness to feedback, and alignment with our core values: keep it simple, lead with honesty, and put people first. • You’ll be part of a team that challenges the status quo, and is excited to experiment and iterate in search of the best solution. That said, 1Password is not for everyone https://blog.1password.com/inside-the-culture-powering-1passwords-next-chapter/. Our work is demanding, we strive for excellence, and the pace is fast. We need people who are keen to take on challenging problems, who seek feedback to grow, and who are driven to make an impact. If you're looking for a place where you can settle into a comfortable routine, this might not be the right fit for you. We’re looking for individuals who are proven experts in their fields, as well as those who are highly adaptable, can thrive in ambiguity and through change, are curious, and above all deliver results. • How we work with AI • We are committed to leveraging cutting-edge technology—including AI—to achieve our mission. We also understand that thinking critically about AI in its current forms will help us create better solutions for our customers and ourselves with its future forms, which will help us continue to close the gap between security and privacy and achieve our mission. We want team members at all levels to take the approach of actively learning AI best practices, identifying opportunities to apply AI in meaningful ways, and driving innovative solutions in their daily work. Embracing the future of AI isn't just encouraged—it's an essential part of how we will be successful at 1Password. • This approach extends to our hiring process—candidates are welcome to use AI tools responsibly and thoughtfully during the application process. • Our approach to remote work