Staff Developer, SDLC Foundations

What we're looking for

• 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.

Bonus points for

• 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.

Compensation

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.