Developer, Rust

Backend Engineer · Mid · Full Time · Remote

Remote (United States | Canada) · RemoteUSD 111k – 172k1w ago
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Role

What you'll do.

This is an Intermediate Rust Developer role at 1Password, a leading enterprise password manager and Unified Access Management platform trusted by 180,000+ businesses. You'll join the Everyday Experience team, owning mission-critical product surfaces and cross-platform workflows while collaborating across engineering, product, design, and security disciplines. The position requires strong Rust expertise, full-stack systems thinking from design through production support, and proficiency with AI-assisted development tools in a remote-first environment within Canada and the US.

Responsibilities

  • Full Lifecycle Feature Ownership: Lead the complete development lifecycle from planning and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support. Contribute new features, improvements, and bug fixes across team codebases while ensuring high code quality and maintainability through comprehensive testing strategies.
  • Cross-Platform Systems Development: Design and implement complex systems spanning product surfaces, backend services, CI/CD infrastructure, reliability engineering, and operational workflows. Demonstrate strong technical judgment in making pragmatic tradeoffs between quality, speed, reliability, and maintainability across distributed systems.
  • Code Quality and Testing Excellence: Develop and maintain high-quality, well-documented code by creating new testing strategies alongside existing frameworks. Write comprehensive unit and integration tests for new and existing code, establish best practices, and thoroughly document architectural decisions and implementation details.
  • Technical Design and Documentation: Plan solutions comprehensively before implementation, recognize and reuse existing patterns and established best practices. Participate in RFC/RFD (Request for Comments/Request for Decisions) processes, submit well-documented merge requests, and provide thoughtful peer feedback during code reviews.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with Product, Design, Security, Browser, Backend, and Infrastructure teams. Participate in team refinement, prioritization, and estimation activities while promoting best practices across teams and driving alignment on technical decisions.
  • Production Support and Customer Advocacy: Empower support teams to effectively support products by addressing complex issues and bugs driving support ticket volume. Advocate for customer feedback, help determine high-priority customer pain points, and contribute to resolving tough issues that impact user experience.
  • AI-Assisted Development Leadership: Effectively utilize AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate feature development, testing, debugging, and code documentation. Validate and review AI-generated work with expertise and rigor, safely apply AI-assisted solutions in production systems, and mentor team members on responsible AI tool usage.
  • Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Identify and pursue improvement opportunities across repository cleanup, community engagement tooling, IDE integration ergonomics, and developer experience. Stay curious about emerging technologies and suggest or tackle optimization initiatives that enhance team productivity and product reliability.

Qualifications

What we look for.

Technical

  • Rust Programming Expertise

    Advanced proficiency in Rust with strong understanding of ownership model, lifetimes, trait systems, and memory safety features. Ability to write idiomatic Rust code for systems-level programming and demonstrate deep knowledge of the ecosystem and common patterns.

  • Full-Stack Systems Architecture

    Experience designing and implementing complex distributed systems spanning frontend interfaces, backend services, and infrastructure layers. Proficiency with systems thinking including performance optimization, concurrency patterns, and reliability engineering principles.

  • Backend Services Development

    Strong experience building scalable backend services with proven ability to handle API design, data persistence, service reliability, and operational observability. Understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and asynchronous programming patterns.

  • Testing and Quality Assurance

    Expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive testing strategies including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end testing frameworks. Familiarity with test-driven development practices and ability to write high-coverage tests that validate complex system behavior.

  • CI/CD and DevOps Fundamentals

    Practical knowledge of continuous integration and deployment pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Experience with version control workflows, containerization, and orchestration technologies essential for modern software delivery.

  • AI-Assisted Development Tools

    Proficiency with modern AI-powered coding assistants for accelerating development workflows. Demonstrated ability to effectively use AI tools for code generation, debugging, documentation, and code exploration while maintaining code quality and security standards.

Education

  • Computer Science Fundamentals

    Strong foundation in computer science principles including data structures, algorithms, operating systems concepts, and networking fundamentals. Knowledge should be demonstrated through equivalent professional experience or formal education.

  • Security and Cryptography Awareness

    Practical understanding of security principles including secure coding practices, authentication/authorization patterns, and cryptographic fundamentals. Essential for working with password management and identity verification systems at 1Password.

Experience

  • Intermediate-Level Systems Development

    Minimum 3-5 years of professional experience developing production systems with increasing responsibility for complex codebases. Demonstrated ability to own systems end-to-end from architectural design through delivery and production support, handling ambiguous problem spaces effectively.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

    Proven track record working effectively across multiple disciplines including product teams, infrastructure engineers, security specialists, and QA professionals. Experience influencing technical decisions, communicating complex concepts, and aligning stakeholders around architectural approaches.

  • Production Systems Support

    Experience owning features through their complete lifecycle including production troubleshooting, performance optimization, and customer-facing issue resolution. Demonstrated ability to rapidly diagnose and resolve production incidents while minimizing customer impact.

  • Codebase Onboarding

    Proven ability to quickly ramp into complex, undocumented codebases and unfamiliar technology stacks. Track record of independently navigating ambiguous problem spaces, making pragmatic decisions with incomplete information, and delivering value within tight timeframes.

Skills

Required

  • Rust

    Production-grade proficiency in Rust for building systems software, APIs, and backend services. Deep understanding of ownership, borrowing, pattern matching, and ecosystem tools.

  • Systems Design

    Ability to architect complex systems spanning multiple layers, design scalable APIs, and make tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and maintainability.

  • Backend Development

    Solid understanding of server-side architecture, API design patterns, database interaction patterns, and service reliability principles.

  • Testing Strategies

    Expertise in designing comprehensive test suites including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. Knowledge of mocking frameworks, property-based testing, and test performance optimization.

  • Git and Version Control

    Strong proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, code review practices, and collaborative development processes.

  • Code Documentation

    Ability to write clear, comprehensive documentation including API documentation, architectural decision records, and inline code comments that aid understanding.

  • Debugging and Troubleshooting

    Strong diagnostic skills using debuggers, logging frameworks, profiling tools, and systematic problem-solving approaches to resolve complex issues.

  • AI-Assisted Development

    Proficiency with AI coding assistants and ability to validate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability in production systems.

Preferred

  • Go Programming

    Nice to have

    Experience building backend services and microservices in Go, demonstrating knowledge of goroutines, channels, and Go's standard library for systems programming.

  • AWS Cloud Infrastructure

    Nice to have

    Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services including EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, and other services for deploying and managing scalable cloud applications.

  • Kubernetes and Containerization

    Nice to have

    Practical experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration for managing microservices deployments and scaling strategies.

  • Password Manager Architecture

    Nice to have

    Experience working on security-critical systems, authentication mechanisms, or identity and access management solutions demonstrating understanding of security-first development practices.

  • Distributed Systems

    Nice to have

    Practical knowledge of distributed system patterns including eventual consistency, consensus algorithms, and handling network partitions in production environments.

  • Performance Optimization

    Nice to have

    Experience profiling and optimizing system performance, reducing latency, improving throughput, and managing resource utilization in production workloads.

  • Cross-Platform Development

    Nice to have

    Experience developing features that work seamlessly across multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop) with consistent behavior and performance characteristics.

Tech stack

Languages

RustGo

Frameworks

TokioAxumSerde

Databases

PostgreSQLRedis

Tools

Git and GitHubCargoAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CD PipelinesObservability ToolsAI-Assisted Development

Other

Security Best PracticesAPI DesignEvent-Driven ArchitectureReliability Engineering

Compensation

Pay and benefits.

Base·USD 111,000 – 172,000

Equity·Stock options

Benefits

  • Health and Dental Coverage

    Comprehensive health and dental benefits for employees and eligible dependents, including preventive care and specialist coverage.

  • Retirement Programs

    401(k) matching program for US-based employees and RRSP matching for Canada-based employees, supporting long-term financial planning.

  • Equity and RSU Program

    Equity grant upon hire with ongoing RSU opportunities for most employees, allowing direct participation in company growth and success.

  • Generous Paid Time Off

    Flexible and generous paid time off policy enabling work-life balance and personal wellbeing throughout the year.

  • Parental Leave Programs

    Maternity and parental leave top-up programs supporting employees during family transitions and bonding periods.

  • Professional Development

    Access to learning resources and professional growth opportunities, including AI and emerging technology training aligned with company initiatives.

  • Paid Volunteer Days

    Paid time available for community engagement and volunteer work, reflecting company values of social responsibility.

  • Peer Recognition Program

    Bonusly peer-to-peer recognition program enabling team members to acknowledge and reward excellent work and collaboration.

  • Free 1Password Account

    Complimentary 1Password enterprise account for all employees, ensuring personal security and professional password management.

  • Incentive Programs

    Participation in performance-based incentive programs where applicable, rewarding exceptional contributions and results.

Full posting

Original listing.

1Password is growing. We’ve surpassed $400M in ARR and we’re continuing to accelerate, earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four years in a row and teaming up with iconic partners like Oracle Red Bull Racing.

About 1Password

At 1Password, we’re building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. Our mission is to unleash employee productivity without compromising security by ensuring every identity is authentic, every application sign-in is secure, and every device is trusted. We innovated the market-leading enterprise password manager and pioneered Unified Access Management, a new cybersecurity category built for the way people and AI agents work today. As one of the most loved brands in cybersecurity, we take a human-centric approach in everything from product strategy to user experience. Over 180,000 businesses, from Fortune 100 leaders to the world’s most innovative AI companies, trust 1Password to help their teams securely adopt the SaaS and AI tools they need to do their best work.

If you're excited about the opportunity to contribute to the digital safety of millions, to work alongside a team of curious, driven individuals, and to solve hard problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, then we want to hear from you. Come join us and help shape a safer, simpler digital future.

We are seeking an Intermediate Developer on our Everyday Experience team. Everyday Experience owns the surfaces and workflows that shape how customers use 1Password day to day, with a focus on reliability, usability, and trust across core product experiences.

The team’s work often sits at the intersection of product quality, cross-platform foundations, and customer-facing execution, which makes it a critical partner for company-priority initiatives.

How we’re using AI today

Our Engineering, Product, and Design teams are thoughtfully integrating AI across the full software and product development lifecycle to move faster without sacrificing quality or security. In practice, that looks like engineers using AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate reviews and catch bugs earlier, product managers synthesizing user research at scale, and designers rapidly prototyping and iterating with AI-generated mockups. We approach AI the same way we approach security: with clear principles, human accountability at every consequential decision point, and rigorous evaluation before anything ships to customers.

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.


What we're looking for:

  • Experienced developer with strong Rust knowledge.

  • Able to own complex systems work end-to-end, from design through delivery and production support.

  • Comfortable working across product surfaces, backend services, CI/CD, reliability, and operational workflows.

  • Strong technical judgment and ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs across quality, speed, reliability, and maintainability.

  • Able to ramp into complex codebases and ambiguous problem spaces quickly.

  • Collaborative across teams, including Product, Design, Security, Browser, Backend, and Infrastructure.

  • Effective at using AI tooling to accelerate development, testing, debugging, documentation, and code exploration.

  • Brings the expertise needed to validate, review, and safely apply AI-assisted work in production systems.

Bonus points for:

  • Strong experience building backend services in Go

  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)

What you can expect:

  • Acquire and maintain a solid understanding of your development toolchain and use it to contribute new features, improvements, and bug fixes across the team's codebases.

  • Participate in the complete lifecycle of a feature: contribute to planning, do the development, and help oversee its release and customer support.

  • Ensure code is high quality and maintainable by developing new testing strategies in addition to existing ones, writing unit and integration tests for new and existing code, documenting your work thoroughly, and reporting issues effectively.

  • Plan your solutions ahead of writing code, recognize and reuse existing patterns and best practices (development, security, quality), and submit well-documented merge requests.

  • Participate in and review documented proposals (RFCs/RFDs), promote best practices in code reviews, and provide thoughtful peer feedback.

  • Empower our customer support team to better support our products, address tough issues driving support inflows, and help determine high-priority customer feedback.

  • Be an active participant in team organization: refinement, prioritization, and group estimation.

  • Be curious and on the lookout for improvement opportunities you can suggest or tackle yourself, whether in repo cleanup, community engagement tooling, or IDE integration ergonomics.

USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $123,000 USD and $172,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

Canada-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $111,000 CAD and $155,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.



At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.


Our culture
At 1Password, we prioritize collaboration, clear and transparent communication, receptiveness to feedback, and alignment with our core values: keep it simple, lead with honesty, and put people first.

You’ll be part of a team that challenges the status quo, and is excited to experiment and iterate in search of the best solution. That said, 1Password is not for everyone. Our work is demanding, we strive for excellence, and the pace is fast. We need people who are keen to take on challenging problems, who seek feedback to grow, and who are driven to make an impact. If you're looking for a place where you can settle into a comfortable routine, this might not be the right fit for you. We’re looking for individuals who are proven experts in their fields, as well as those who are highly adaptable, can thrive in ambiguity and through change, are curious, and above all deliver results.

How we work with AI
We are committed to leveraging cutting-edge technology—including AI—to achieve our mission. We also understand that thinking critically about AI in its current forms will help us create better solutions for our customers and ourselves with its future forms, which will help us continue to close the gap between security and privacy and achieve our mission. We want team members at all levels to take the approach of actively learning AI best practices, identifying opportunities to apply AI in meaningful ways, and driving innovative solutions in their daily work. Embracing the future of AI isn't just encouraged—it's an essential part of how we will be successful at 1Password.

This approach extends to our hiring process—candidates are welcome to use AI tools responsibly and thoughtfully during the application process. To us, this means we do ask that you join live interviews without using AI tools so we can get to know how you communicate, solve problems, and collaborate with others.

Our approach to remote work
We believe in the power of remote work, but recognize that in-person connection is important to help us achieve our mission. While we are a remote-first company, travel for in-person engagement is a part of almost all roles, and we require our employees to be ready and willing to take part. Frequency will depend on role and responsibilities, and may include, but is not limited to: annual department-wide offsites, team meetings, and customer/industry events.

What we offer
We believe in working hard, and rewarding that hard work through our benefits. While not an exhaustive list, here is a glance at what we currently offer:

Health and wellbeing
👶 Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
🩺 Competitive health benefits
🏝 Generous PTO policy

Growth and future
📈 RSU program for most employees
💸 Retirement matching program
🔑 Free 1Password account

Community
🤝 Paid volunteer days
🏆 Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
🌎 Remote-first work environment
*Some roles in our GTM team are currently being hired for in-person hybrid work in Toronto and Austin. These roles will specify on the posting.

You belong here.

1Password is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that is built on trust, support and respect. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken or veteran status. Be yourself, find your people and share the things you love.

Accommodation is available upon request at any point during our recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please speak to your talent acquisition partner or email us at [email protected] and we’ll work to meet your needs.

Remote work is a part of our DNA. Given that our company was founded remotely in 2005, we can safely say we're experts at building remote culture. That said, remote work at 1Password does mean working from your home country. If you've got questions or concerns about this, your talent partner would be happy to address them with you.

Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check that may consist of prior employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, publicly available social media, credit history, or other information, as permitted by local law.

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