# VP, Engineering
**Company:** [1Password](https://scaleengineer.com/companies/1password)
Lead 1Password's platform engineering vision as VP of Engineering, reporting to the CTO. This executive role drives strategy, organization, and execution for core service and development platforms serving 180,000+ businesses. You'll build secure, scalable, and reliable foundations enabling teams to deliver with autonomy and speed while leading transformational initiatives in IaaS, SaaS, and cybersecurity infrastructure across North America.
**Role:** Director
**Seniority:** VP
**Locations:** Remote (United States | Canada)
**Remote:** yes
**Salary:** 290000–464000 USD
[Apply](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/1password/d8027704-aab7-41de-96f4-9b3ac005813e)
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## Responsibilities

- Strategic Vision and Roadmap Development: Continuously evolve, develop, and execute the Platform Engineering vision, strategy, objectives, and roadmaps while aligning with company strategy and customer needs. Proactively incorporate market and industry trends, competitive landscape analysis, and customer insights to inform strategic decision-making and identify market opportunities for platform expansion and innovation.
- Architectural Transformation and Engineering Excellence: Lead multi-year transformational changes to 1Password's engineering architecture and operating model, building shared platforms, supported paths, and common practices that improve reliability, security, developer effectiveness, and organizational scalability. Establish ubiquitous engineering standards and safe, measurable agentic engineering practices across all teams.
- Organization Design and Operations Management: Design and evolve the organization structure, ownership model, and operating mechanisms required to execute platform strategy. Establish clear accountability for directly operated platforms and services while creating governed, supported paths enabling other teams to independently own and operate their products with transparency and measurable outcomes.
- Performance Metrics and Evidence-Driven Decision Making: Establish clear, quantifiable outcomes across the organization and implement operating mechanisms that expose progress, quality, adoption, operational health, and business impact. Use data-driven evidence to make investment, prioritization, and organizational decisions, providing actionable insights to executive leadership and organizational leaders.
- Cross-Functional Leadership and Executive Collaboration: Build strong relationships across the company to identify needs, align strategies, and optimize company-wide impact. Foster collaboration within and beyond the Technology organization, represent the technical organization in senior leadership meetings, and communicate strategic initiatives, operational execution, and industry implications to C-suite executives.
- High-Performing Team Development and Mentorship: Build and lead a high-performing engineering team through mentoring and coaching direct reports, evaluating organizational talent, and implementing development plans. Invest in the growth of engineering leaders across 1Password through direct mentorship, sponsorship, and cross-functional leadership opportunities alongside Product, Security, and Operations partners.
- Technology-Adjacent Strategic Initiatives: Lead technology initiatives that facilitate delivering best-in-class engineering results, from inspiration and innovation through implementation and iterative improvement. Advance how software is built and operated across 1Password through platform controls, evidence systems, and practices that enhance security, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Financial Oversight and Resource Allocation: In partnership with Finance, own the organization's investment and capacity strategy, balancing current operations, future-state transformation, and targeted growth initiatives. Ensure resources are allocated against highest-value outcomes, adjust plans based on evidence and business priorities, and maintain budget discipline while enabling innovation.
- Culture, Organizational Health, and Employee Experience: Drive and evolve high-performance culture fostering psychological safety, inclusivity, ownership, and agility. Champion initiatives enhancing employee experience organizationally and company-wide, establishing clear values and practices that attract and retain top engineering talent in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
- Cost-Effective Infrastructure and Operations: Deliver and operate cost-effective mission-critical infrastructure and platform systems serving internal and consumer-facing software products. Drive operational efficiency improvements, optimize system reliability and security posture, and establish processes for incident response and continued platform evolution to support market expansion.

## Requirements

### education

- {"name":"Computer Science or Related Bachelor's Degree","description":"Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related technical field, or proven equivalent work experience demonstrating mastery of core engineering principles, systems design, and software architecture."}

### technical

- {"name":"Platform Engineering and Architecture","description":"Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable platform architectures, microservices infrastructure, and distributed systems. Knowledge of service mesh technologies, API gateway patterns, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native platform design principles."}
- {"name":"Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps","description":"Proficiency with cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker), infrastructure-as-code practices, and modern DevOps tooling. Understanding of infrastructure scaling, multi-region deployment, and disaster recovery architecture."}
- {"name":"Security and Compliance in Enterprise Environments","description":"Comprehensive knowledge of enterprise security architecture, compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, etc.), identity and access management systems, data protection strategies, and security incident response protocols relevant to cybersecurity and SaaS platforms."}
- {"name":"Systems Design and Reliability Engineering","description":"Expertise in designing reliable, observable, and maintainable distributed systems. Proficiency with site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, observability tooling, performance optimization, capacity planning, and incident management frameworks."}
- {"name":"Software Development Lifecycle and Engineering Practices","description":"Mastery of modern software development practices including CI/CD pipeline design, automated testing frameworks, code quality tools, documentation standards, and developer experience optimization. Experience implementing engineering standards and best practices across large organizations."}

### experience

- {"name":"Executive Leadership in Engineering","description":"10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with a minimum of 7 years in executive leadership roles, demonstrating mastery of strategic planning, organizational development, and delivery at scale. Proven success building and operating in the intersection of IaaS, SaaS, and cybersecurity industry domains."}
- {"name":"Platform and Infrastructure Expertise","description":"Established track record building, maintaining, and scaling durable, full-lifecycle platforms and mission-critical services. Demonstrated expertise across adoption, customer experience optimization, reliability engineering, security hardening, cost management, incident response protocols, and continued platform evolution."}
- {"name":"Transformational Leadership Experience","description":"Proven expertise leading and sustaining multi-year transformational initiatives in fast-paced, complex, and dynamic environments. Success navigating organizational change, architecting new operating models, and executing strategic shifts while maintaining team engagement and delivering measurable results."}
- {"name":"High-Performance Team Building and Scaling","description":"Demonstrated ability building, developing, and scaling high-performing engineering teams. Experience recruiting top technical talent, developing emerging leaders, implementing performance management frameworks, and fostering inclusive teams that attract and retain engineering excellence."}
- {"name":"Operational Excellence and Systems Optimization","description":"Extensive experience establishing and maintaining operational excellence through process optimization, system scalability improvements, and performance metrics development. Proven ability to implement governance frameworks, establish monitoring and observability systems, and drive continuous improvement initiatives."}
- {"name":"Strategic Business and Technical Acumen","description":"Strong business and technical judgment in systems and software engineering with demonstrated ability to translate technical strategy into business outcomes. Experience aligning engineering decisions with market opportunities, cost considerations, and organizational growth objectives while maintaining security and reliability standards."}

## Skills

### required

- {"name":"Executive Leadership and Strategic Planning","description":"Exceptional ability to define, develop, and execute strategic plans across multiple organizational objectives, driving committed quantifiable results. Demonstrated success establishing vision, setting priorities, and aligning teams around shared goals in complex, multi-stakeholder environments."}
- {"name":"Organizational Design and Change Management","description":"Proven capability designing effective organizational structures, operating models, and governance frameworks. Experience leading organizational transformations, implementing new processes, and building accountability mechanisms while maintaining team morale and engagement."}
- {"name":"Technical Leadership and Architecture Strategy","description":"Deep technical credibility with hands-on understanding of modern software architecture, platform design patterns, infrastructure technologies, and engineering best practices. Ability to make sound technical decisions informed by security, reliability, scalability, and cost considerations."}
- {"name":"Executive Communication and Stakeholder Management","description":"Outstanding communication skills enabling clear conveyance of complex technical and business ideas to diverse audiences. Demonstrated ability to build trust, inspire broadly, gain alignment across stakeholders, and influence C-suite executives on strategic priorities and technical investments."}
- {"name":"Performance Management and Metrics Definition","description":"Expertise establishing clear, measurable outcomes and metrics that drive organizational accountability. Ability to design balanced scorecard approaches, establish leading and lagging indicators, and use data systematically to inform resource allocation and strategic decisions."}
- {"name":"Team Development and Talent Management","description":"Demonstrated mastery building, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams and emerging leaders. Ability to identify talent, provide coaching and feedback, create development opportunities, and foster inclusive teams that attract and retain engineering excellence."}
- {"name":"Business and Financial Acumen","description":"Strong understanding of business economics, budget management, and financial planning. Ability to make investment decisions considering ROI, prioritize resource allocation, and balance short-term execution with long-term transformation initiatives."}
- {"name":"Analytical and Strategic Thinking","description":"Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities enabling assessment of complex situations, identification of root causes, and development of strategic solutions. Comfort with ambiguity and proven ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information in fast-paced environments."}
- {"name":"Collaborative Leadership Across Functions","description":"Proven ability collaborating effectively with Product, Security, Finance, and other executive stakeholders to align on strategic priorities. Demonstrated success building partnerships, fostering cross-functional teams, and driving change through influence rather than direct authority."}
- {"name":"Adaptability and Growth Mindset","description":"Demonstrated ability thriving in ambiguous, fast-changing environments characterized by rapid growth and shifting priorities. Proven openness to feedback, commitment to continuous learning, and willingness to experiment and iterate in pursuit of optimal solutions."}

### preferred

- {"name":"Cybersecurity Industry Experience","description":"Background in cybersecurity, identity management, or related security-focused software categories. Understanding of threat landscapes, security compliance requirements, and enterprise security architecture decisions valuable for platform design."}
- {"name":"SaaS Scale Experience","description":"Experience scaling SaaS platforms serving thousands to millions of users or hundreds of thousands of organizations. Familiarity with multi-tenancy architectures, subscription economics, and SaaS-specific operational challenges and optimization opportunities."}
- {"name":"AI and Machine Learning Platform Integration","description":"Experience integrating AI and machine learning capabilities into existing platforms or products. Understanding of responsible AI deployment, ethical considerations, and practical challenges of productizing AI/ML technologies at enterprise scale."}
- {"name":"Venture-Backed or Hypergrowth Company Experience","description":"Background in rapidly scaling venture-backed companies or hypergrowth environments. Comfort navigating shifting market conditions, scaling processes as organizations grow, and balancing rapid execution with foundation-building for long-term sustainability."}
- {"name":"Open Source and Community Engagement","description":"Experience building platforms or services leveraging open source technologies or engaging with developer communities. Familiarity with open source governance, community engagement strategies, and ecosystem development approaches."}
- {"name":"Remote-First Organization Leadership","description":"Demonstrated success building and leading distributed, remote-first teams and organizations. Experience establishing remote culture, managing asynchronous communication, and building team cohesion across geographic boundaries."}

## Tech stack

### tools

### others

### databases

### languages

### frameworks

## Benefits

### benefits

## Compensation

- **max:** 464000
- **min:** 290000
- **currency:** USD
- **stockOptions:** true

## Interview process

### steps

## Full description
_**1Password is growing.** We’ve surpassed $500M 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._

The Vice President of Platform Engineering reports to the CTO and leads the strategy, organization, and execution for 1Password’s core service and development platforms. The VP is accountable for building secure, reliable, and scalable foundations that enable teams across 1Password to deliver, operate, and own with autonomy, speed, and unambiguous accountability. The VP owns operations, drives delivery, and develops a high-performing team to achieve impactful results.

**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:**

* Experience**:** 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 7 years in a leadership role, preferably with experience building and operating at the intersections of IaaS, SaaS, and the cybersecurity industry.
* Education**:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related fields; or proven equivalent work experience.
* Proven track record establishing durable, full-lifecycle ownership for critical platforms and services, including adoption, customer experience, reliability, security, cost, incident response, and continued evolution.
* Proven ability delivering and operating cost-effective mission-critical infrastructure and platform systems serving internal- and consumer-facing software products, operational efficiency and market expansion.
* Strong business and technical acumen in systems and software engineering, proven ability to lead an organization and culture delivering best practices and innovation.
* Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to define, develop and execute strategic plans across a wide set of objectives, driving committed quantifiable results.
* Extensive experience in building, maintaining, and influencing operational excellence, including process and system optimization, scalability, and the development and management of performance metrics
* Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with C-suite leaders and cross-functional teams, aligning on strategic priorities to achieve shared objectives.
* Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly, build trust, inspire broadly, gaining alignment across diverse stakeholders.
* Proven expertise in leading and sustaining multi-year transformational initiatives in fast-paced, complex, and dynamic environments.
* Proven experience building, developing and scaling high-performing teams.

**What you can expect:**

* **Leadership:** Continuouslyevolve,develop and execute the Platform Engineering vision, strategy, objectives, and roadmaps, aligning and laddering it with the company strategy and customer needs. Proactively incorporate market and industry trends, competitive landscape, and customer insights to identify opportunities, informing strategic decision-making.
* **Transformation:** Lead multi-year changes to 1Password’s engineering architecture and operating model, building shared platforms, supported paths, and common practices that improve reliability, security, developer effectiveness, and the company’s ability to scale.
* **Company Initiatives:** Lead technology-adjacent strategic initiatives that facilitate delivering best-in-class engineering results, from inspiration and innovation, to implementation and iterative improvement.
* **Operations:** Design and evolve the organization, ownership model, and operating mechanisms needed to execute the strategy. Establish clear accountability for the platforms and services the organization operates directly, while creating governed, supported paths that enable other teams to own and operate their products independently.
* **Engineering Systems and Practices:** Advance how software is built and operated across 1Password through ubiquitous engineering standards, operational excellence, and safe, measurable Agentic Engineering practices. Establish the platforms, controls, and evidence needed for teams to adopt these practices while remaining accountable for their results.
* **Performance:** Establish clear, quantifiable outcomes across the organization and operating mechanisms that expose progress, quality, adoption, operational health, and business impact. Use evidence to make investment, prioritization, and organizational decisions, transparently providing actionable insights for the executive team and organizational leaders.
* **Cross-functional Collaboration:** Build strong relationships across the company to proactively identify needs, align strategies, and optimize your company-wide impact. Foster collaboration within and beyond the Technology organization to influence change. Apply critical feedback toward achieving strategic goals. Represent the technical organization in senior leadership meetings, providing updates on strategic initiatives, operational execution, and industry trends and their implications.
* **Team Leadership:** Build and lead a high-performing team by mentoring and coaching direct reports, evaluating organizational talent, and implementing plans to prepare talent for future business demands.
* **Leadership Growth:** Invest in the growth and development of the leaders within the technology organization across 1Password via direct mentorship, sponsorship, and participation at sibling organization events, as well as providing leadership alongside cross-functional partner teams, such as Product, Security, People/Talent, Operations and L&D.
* **Culture and Org Health:** Drive and evolve our high-performance culture, fostering psychological safety, inclusivity, ownership, and agility. Champion initiatives to enhance the employee experience organizationally- and company-wide.
* **Financial Oversight:** In partnership with Finance, own the organization’s investment and capacity strategy, balancing current operations, future-state transformation, and targeted growth. Ensure resources are allocated against the highest-value outcomes and adjust plans when evidence or business priorities change.

USA-based roles: The annual base salary for this role is between $302,000 USD and $483,000 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: The annual base salary for this role is between $278,000 CAD and $445,000 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_](https://blog.1password.com/inside-the-culture-powering-1passwords-next-chapter/). 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 nextbit@agilebits.com 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._

_1Password uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, including natural language processing and predictive analytics, to assist in the initial screening of employment applications and improve our recruitment process. See_ [_here_](https://www.ashbyhq.com/downloadables/ashby-bias-audit-08-2024.pdf) _for the latest third party bias audit information. If you prefer not to have your application assessed using AI/ML features, you may opt out by completing_ [_this form_](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/1password/automation-notice)_. For additional information see our_ [_Candidate Privacy Notice_](https://1password.com/files/candidate-privacy-notice.pdf)_._