Remote Principal Engineer, AI-Driven Product Systems

1Password; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 246,000 - 369,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

1Password is hiring a Principal Engineer to shape technical direction for core product experiences across clients, distributed services, data platforms, and shared infrastructure. You will drive architecture, engineering standards, and cross-team collaboration to build secure, reliable, and scalable systems that power millions of users and hundreds of thousands of businesses.

You will evolve product architecture with security-by-default, privacy-conscious design, cross-platform consistency, and

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to drive architecture and technical direction across teams.
• Experience integrating AI/ML into production applications.
• Strong focus on privacy, security, and telemetry governance.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and technical direction for core product capabilities across clients, distributed services, data platforms, and shared infrastructure.
• Establish engineering standards and reusable architectural patterns for scalable product systems.
• Drive long-term technical strategy balancing delivery needs with platform sustainability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Data teams.
• Guide integration of AI-powered capabilities into customer-facing experiences with safety and observability.
• Lead architectural decisions on distributed systems, event-driven designs, and scalability.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through reviews and hands-on problem solving.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

AI integration

Security-focused design

Cloud infrastructure

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

1Password is hiring a Principal Engineer to shape technical direction for core product experiences across clients, distributed services, data platforms, and shared infrastructure. You will drive architecture, engineering standards, and cross-team collaboration to build secure, reliable, and scalable systems that power millions of users and hundreds of thousands of businesses.

You will evolve product architecture with security-by-default, privacy-conscious design, cross-platform consistency, and