Staff Developer, SDLC Foundations

We are seeking a Staff Developer on our SDLC Foundations team, focused on building and evolving the tooling and services that power the Software Development Lifecycle for every engineering team at 1Password. This team owns the centralized feature flag platform (internally built services that integrate with an external system), telemetry, and developer experience tooling, alongside an emerging experimentation platform.

You'll serve as the technical DRI for foundational platform work, owning architectural decisions that raise the bar for how engineers across 1Password build, ship, and operate software safely and confidently. You'll play an active role in shaping and owning the team's technical roadmap, ensuring our platform investments are well-sequenced, strategically grounded, and positioned for long-term impact.

Just as importantly, you'll be a force multiplier for the team around you, mentoring developers, helping them grow in their craft, and fostering an environment where robust, scalable solutions are the standard.

- 8+ years of professional software development experience in a production SaaS environment.

- Hands-on experience building and evolving platform-level services: feature flagging systems, telemetry, 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.

- 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).

- Experience with GitHub tooling and automations that facilitate and streamline the Software Development Lifecycle.

- Experience designing or operating telemetry systems, including instrumentation, data pipelines, or observability platforms.

- Play a foundational role in shaping how 1Password engineers build and ship features reliably and safely at scale.

- 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.