# Engineering Manager, Compute Services

**Company:** [1Password](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/1password)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $190k – $278k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, cloud native infrastructure, container orchestration, auto-scaling, GitOps, backend technologies, Technical Leadership, Team Management, Roadmapping, Recruiting
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Engineering Manager leading the Compute Services team at 1Password. Owns core infrastructure including Kubernetes, container orchestration, auto-scaling, GitOps, and policy enforcement. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, driving delivery and scaling, and recruiting talent. Requires significant cloud native and backend experience plus prior people management of remote teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Help set and support strategic direction for the Compute Services team.
- Drive alignment and be responsible for the results of the team in support of broader company objectives.
- Collaborate with senior individual contributors to create an engaging technical vision for your team.
- Work with cross-functional partners to define the best solutions for our customers, both internal and external.
- Work to scope and plan key deliverables for projects and initiatives with the team.
- Drive execution with an emphasis on iterations and deliverables, quality, velocity, and communication.
- Provide technical leadership to developers both in your team and across the engineering organization.
- Coach individual contributors to help them reach their full potential.
- Recruit and retain top tier talent in a fast growing environment.
- Continue scaling a highly specialized engineering team by working with a team of Engineering Managers to continuously refine hiring, onboarding, and development processes.

## Requirements
- Experience managing a team of engineers.
- Significant experience with cloud native infrastructure and backend technologies. While you are not expected to write code, you do need to be able to “talk the talk” to help the team work through complex technical issues.
- The ability to create and maintain a positive, healthy team environment in which everyone is supported, encouraged, and meaningfully challenged to do great work.
- Capable of driving the delivery of projects, and creating roadmaps for future work.
- You have helped a team scale both themselves and the services they are responsible for.
- Experience managing a remote team.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, auto-scaling, runtime performance, automation tooling, continuous delivery through GitOps, policy enforcement and mutation.

## Compensation and Benefits
**USA-based roles only:** The annual base salary for this role is between $190,000 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 $171,000 CAD and $248,000 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.

**Additional benefits:**
- Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.
- Competitive health benefits.
- 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.

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