# Senior Developer, CI Architecture

**Company:** [1Password](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/1password)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $153k – $214k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** CI/CD, GitHub Actions, build systems, test automation, compilation caching, dependency management, test sharding, Rust, Node.js, pnpm, monorepos, Datadog, Linux, macOS, Windows
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Designs CI architecture and developer tooling that makes software builds and tests faster, more reliable, and easier to diagnose across macOS, Windows, and Linux. The role requires strong CI/CD, build-performance, debugging, and cross-team collaboration experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and evolve reference CI architectures for GitHub Actions across Product Engineering, including job decomposition and parallelization, caching and artifact strategy, test partitioning and execution, and multi-platform builds.
- Partner with teams to redesign slow or fragile pipelines and lead time-boxed engagements with measurable outcomes.
- Improve CI developer experience by making failures easier to diagnose and fix, improving ergonomics, and reducing opaque processes.
- Build tooling, abstractions, templates, and golden workflows so best practices are the default path.
- Drive application-layer performance optimization across build and compilation strategies, dependency management, and toolchain performance.
- Improve test architecture and reduce flakiness in partnership with service and application owners.
- Establish observability-to-action loops by translating CI metrics into architectural changes, including queue versus execution time, stage-level regressions, and flaky rates.
- Help teams interpret signals and prioritize high-leverage fixes.
- Co-develop golden workflows and guardrails with CI Platform, with CI Architecture focusing on usability and patterns and CI Platform focusing on enforcement capability, secure defaults, and platform primitives.

## Requirements
- Experience designing or evolving CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions.
- Hands-on ability to improve build and test performance through compilation caching, dependency optimization, parallelization, and test sharding or partitioning.
- Deep familiarity with multi-platform builds and testing across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and systems thinking.
- Practical debugging skills, including isolating bottlenecks, reasoning from logs and metrics, and driving fixes across multiple layers.
- Ability to collaborate across teams and codebases and influence without direct ownership.

## Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of build systems and toolchains such as Rust, Node, pnpm, and mobile toolchains.
- Experience with monorepos, large-scale CI, or developer productivity initiatives.
- Experience building internal tooling, including CLI tools, workflow generators, and reusable actions or workflows.
- Experience using observability data, such as Datadog CI metrics, to drive performance improvements.

## Compensation and Benefits
- USA-based roles: annual base salary of $153,000 USD to $214,000 USD.
- Canada-based roles: annual base salary of $144,000 CAD to $202,000 CAD.
- Benefits include health, dental, 401k or RRSP, paid time off, an equity grant, and applicable incentive programs.

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