Principal Engineer, Product Engineering

AgileBits Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote (United States | Canada)

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Principal Engineer in Product Engineering at 1Password, you will define the technical direction for core product experiences across client applications, distributed services, data platforms, and shared infrastructure, ensuring systems are secure, reliable, performant, and maintainable at enterprise scale.
• You will drive architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical strategy across the product ecosystem, balancing product velocity with durability while guiding AI integration into trust-sensitive experiences with privacy and security by default.
• You will operate across the full lifecycle of product engineering work—from design through production operations—helping teams navigate complex tradeoffs, reduce systemic complexity, and raise the operational bar through mentorship, architecture reviews, and hands-on problem solving.
• You will partner with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Data teams to align technical decisions with customer outcomes and long-term durability, shaping how Product Engineering approaches cross-cutting problems and establishes patterns others build against.

🎯 Requirements

• Designed and operated large-scale distributed systems where reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence matter.
• Deep experience driving architecture and technical direction across multiple teams, organizations, or product domains.
• Strong systems-thinking instincts with ability to reason about platform boundaries, distributed systems constraints, developer ergonomics, and long-term technical sustainability.
• Experience building customer-facing product systems across clients, APIs, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
• Experience building or scaling event-driven systems, microservices architectures, or shared platform infrastructure in production environments.
• Practical experience integrating AI or ML capabilities into production applications and understanding the engineering tradeoffs in introducing AI into trust-sensitive product experiences.
• Strong instincts for privacy-preserving and security-conscious system design, including handling of telemetry, user data, permissions, and auditability.
• Effective at driving alignment across teams with different incentives, priorities, and technical perspectives.
• Clear communicator with engineers, executives, and cross-functional partners, able to explain complex technical tradeoffs in practical terms.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping organizations make durable technical decisions before every variable is known.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous paid time off policy
• RSU program and retirement matching (401k for US, RRSP for Canada)
• Free 1Password account
• Paid volunteer days and peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
• Remote-first work environment with flexibility to work from home country
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• Access to AI-assisted tools and opportunities to innovate with AI in product development

Skills & Technologies

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About AgileBits Inc.

AgileBits Inc. develops 1Password, a cross-platform password manager that securely stores credentials, secrets, and documents for individuals, families, and enterprises. The Toronto-based company provides browser extensions, desktop and mobile apps, and a command-line tool to generate, fill, and audit passwords while enforcing zero-knowledge encryption. Features include shared vaults, SSH key management, sign-in with SSO, advanced reporting, and developer integrations. The product supports Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS, and offers hosted or self-hosted deployment. AgileBits serves millions of users and thousands of organizations worldwide, emphasizing privacy, compliance, and ease of use.

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