192K–278K USD / year
Staff Developer, Authentication Enablement
BackendRemote — United States, Canada
Published on 2026-11-11
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About this role
Lead technical work on 1Password’s authentication service as it is separated from the monolith into an independent, highly available service. Guide a careful live migration while maintaining correctness, security, and availability, and help shape authentication services for future use cases such as AI agents.
About the company
1Password provides secure password management solutions for individuals and businesses, helping users safely store and share their sensitive information. The company serves a diverse clientele with a range of products designed to enhance security and streamline user experience.
The team
Authentication Enablement team, within Platform Engineering.
Stack
GoJavaC#RustC++PythonMySQLRedis
What you'll do
- Lead a portion of the authentication service roadmap and set technical direction for migration work.
- Design migrations for session and device management, including safe source-of-truth cutovers and event publishing.
- Establish standards for testing, observability, and safe rollouts.
- Document technical decisions and balance reliability, security, and delivery.
- Partner with Authorization, Identity Services, Security, and product teams.
- Mentor engineers and help propagate distributed-systems standards.
- Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation for tier-one services.
What we're looking for
- Significant experience building and operating backend services.
- Deep distributed-systems experience, including live traffic or data migrations, event streaming or change data capture, and consistent cutovers between sources of truth.
- Experience designing asynchronous workflows and moving from large atomic transactions to eventually consistent systems while preserving correctness.
- Working knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies such as OAuth, OIDC, WebAuthn, passkeys, or MFA.
- Track record of owning multi-quarter projects, setting technical direction, and communicating tradeoffs.
- Experience mentoring engineers and transferring ownership.
Nice to have
- Extensive experience with Go or another backend language.
- Experience extracting services from a monolith.
- Experience with MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and DynamoDB at scale.
- Familiarity with the Secure Remote Password protocol.
- Experience with strict availability targets, SLOs, on-call, and incident response.
Benefits
- Equity grant; RSU program for most employees.
- Generous paid time off.
- Health benefits and retirement matching.
- Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.
- Paid volunteer days.
- Remote-first work, with travel for in-person events.