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1Password

Staff Developer, Authentication Enablement

1Password

. Help move authentication out of the monolith into an independent service with its own data .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeRemote • United States, CanadaLead💰 $192,000 - $278,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating backend services with a focus on distributed systems, data migrations, and authentication services. Proven ability to set technical direction, lead projects, and ensure reliability and security in service delivery.

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Distributed Systems ExpertiseBackend Service DevelopmentOAuth/OIDC ImplementationTechnical Direction SettingAsynchronous Workflow Design

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Hard Skills
GoJavaC#RustC++PythonMySQLRedisKafkaDynamoDB
Soft Skills
MentoringTechnical Decision MakingCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
Event StreamingChange Data CaptureSecure Remote Password Protocol
Industry Keywords
Authentication ServicesSession ManagementDevice ManagementSLOsIncident Response

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Distributed SystemsDynamoDBJavaKafkaMySQLPythonRedisRustC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Help move authentication out of the monolith into an independent service with its own data
  • Move authentication endpoints and tables incrementally using weighted rollouts, consistency checks, and tested rollback procedures
  • Set technical direction for the migration and new authentication services, including trusted access for AI agents
  • Lead part of the authentication service roadmap for the next 12 months
  • Own designs for session and device management flows, source-of-truth cutovers, and authentication event publishing
  • Make and document technical decisions balancing reliability, security, and delivery
  • Set standards for testing, observability, and safe rollout
  • Build needed platform components and propagate distributed-system standards with sibling teams
  • Partner with Authorization, Identity Services, and Security teams
  • Guide product teams integrating authentication-dependent features
  • Apply human judgment and careful validation to AI-assisted security-critical code
  • Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation for tier-one services

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Significant experience building and operating backend services
  • Deep expertise with distributed systems and data, including live traffic or data migrations without downtime, event streaming or change data capture, and consistency across sources of truth
  • Strong experience designing asynchronous workflows and migrating synchronous, large-transaction processes to eventually consistent designs
  • Working knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, WebAuthn, passkeys, or MFA, including implementation pitfalls and security risks
  • Track record of setting technical direction, owning large multi-quarter projects, writing technical designs, and explaining tradeoffs
  • Experience raising engineers through reviews, design feedback, and mentoring
  • Extensive experience with Go or another backend language such as Java, C#, Rust, C++, or Python is a bonus
  • Experience extracting services from a monolith is a bonus
  • Experience with MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and DynamoDB at scale is a bonus
  • Familiarity with Secure Remote Password protocol is a bonus
  • Experience owning services with strict availability targets, including SLOs, on-call, and incident response is a bonus
  • Must already be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada; 1Password does not offer work authorization, relocation assistance, or visa sponsorship/transfers
  • Participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation for tier-one services

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • 401(k) (USA) / RRSP (Canada)
  • Generous paid time off
  • Equity grant / RSU program
  • Incentive programs, where applicable
  • Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
  • Retirement matching program
  • Free 1Password account
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
  • Remote-first work environment
  • Travel for in-person engagement, including offsites, team meetings, and customer/industry events