Senior Developer, CI Architecture

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.

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 a Senior Developer for our CI Architecture team. The team’s mission is to enable fast, reliable, low-friction CI/CD workflows for developers (and increasingly, for agents) by owning CI pipeline architecture patterns, CI developer experience, and application-layer performance improvements.

This is not a “runner infra” role. You’ll work at the intersection of build systems, test architecture, workflow design, and developer tooling—partnering closely with CI Platform (runners/orchestration/caching/observability) and with product engineering teams (codebases, build targets, test suites).

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.

• Experience designing or evolving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

• Hands-on ability to improve build and test performance (e.g., compilation caching strategies, dependency optimization, parallelization, test sharding/partitioning).

• Deep familiarity with multi-platform build/test (macOS, Windows, Linux) and constraints of each environment.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with demonstrated systems thinking.

• Practical debugging skills: you can isolate bottlenecks, reason from logs/metrics, and drive fixes across multiple layers.

• Comfort collaborating across teams and codebases; ability to influence without direct ownership.

• Knowledge of building systems/toolchains relevant to our ecosystem (e.g., Rust, Node/pnpm, mobile toolchains).

• Experience with monorepos, large-scale CI, or developer productivity initiatives.

• Experience building internal tooling (CLI tools, workflow generators, reusable actions/workflows).

• Experience working with observability data (e.g., Datadog CI metrics) to drive ongoing performance improvements.

• Define and evolve reference CI architectures for GitHub Actions across Product Engineering (job decomposition/parallelization, caching & artifact strategy, test partitioning/execution, multi-platform builds).

• Partner with teams to redesign slow or fragile pipelines; lead time-boxed engagements with measurable outcomes (e.g., reduce P90 pipeline time by X%, cut rerun rate by Y%).

• Improve CI developer experience:

  • Make failures easier to diagnose and fix (clearer signals, better ergonomics, fewer "Opaque processes").

  • Build tooling/abstractions/templates so best practices are the default path.

• Drive application-layer performance optimization:

  • Build/compilation strategies, dependency management, and toolchain performance.

  • Test architecture improvements and flake reduction in partnership with service/app owners.

• Establish observability → action loops:

  • Translate CI metrics into actionable architectural changes (queue vs execution time, stage-level regressions, flaky rate).

  • Help teams interpret signals and prioritize the highest-leverage fixes.

• Co-develop “golden workflows & guardrails” with CI Platform:

  • EUX CI Architecture focuses on usability and patterns.

  • CI Platform focuses on enforcement capability, secure defaults, and platform primitives.

• Working style

  • Outcome-driven and pragmatic: you’ll prioritize changes that deliver sustained wins, not just local optimizations.

  • Developer-empathetic: you care about feedback loops, failure clarity, and making the “right thing” easy.

  • Collaborative: you partner tightly with CI Platform and product teams, with clear ownership boundaries.

USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $153,000 USD and $214,000 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 $144,000 CAD and $202,000 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.

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.

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