Senior Principal Engineer - Platform & AI Architecture

Devconnectplatform; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

1Password is seeking a Principal Engineer to define technical direction for core product experiences across client applications, distributed services, data platforms and shared infrastructure. This senior IC will drive architecture, establish standards, and align teams toward scalable and secure systems.

You will work with Product, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure and Data teams to incorporate AI capabilities responsibly, ensure reliability, privacy by design, and enterprise-scale resilience

Qualifications

• Designed and operated large-scale distributed systems with reliability and scalability.
• Strong architecture leadership across multiple teams and product domains.
• Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production applications and trust-sensitive product experiences.
• Excellent cross-functional communication with engineers, product, security, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and technical direction for core product capabilities across clients, services, data platforms, and shared infrastructure.
• Establish engineering standards and reusable architectural patterns for scalable, maintainable systems.
• Drive long-term technical strategy balancing delivery with operational durability and platform sustainability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Data teams to align decisions with customer outcomes.
• Guide AI-enabled capabilities integration to ensure reliability, observability, and auditability.
• Define engineering expectations for AI-enabled product systems including telemetry, safety, and rollback controls.
• Establish shared platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns for cross-team feature development.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

AI integration

Cross-team collaboration

Security by design

Telemetry & observability

Technical tradeoffs

Job description

1Password is seeking a Principal Engineer to define technical direction for core product experiences across client applications, distributed services, data platforms and shared infrastructure. This senior IC will drive architecture, establish standards, and align teams toward scalable and secure systems.

You will work with Product, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure and Data teams to incorporate AI capabilities responsibly, ensure reliability, privacy by design, and enterprise-scale resilience