Engineering Manager, API Platform

About 1Password

1Password is experiencing rapid growth, surpassing $400M in ARR and consistently earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100. We are building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future, innovating the market-leading enterprise password manager and pioneering Extended Access Management. Trusted by over 180,000 businesses, 1Password takes a human-centric approach to product strategy and user experience, enabling teams to securely adopt SaaS and AI tools.

If you are excited about contributing to digital safety, working with a team of curious, driven individuals, and solving complex problems in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to join us in shaping a safer, simpler digital future.

Public-facing APIs are crucial for 1Password to securely expose core capabilities to customers, partners, and internal consumers. Our API Platform team builds and operates the systems ensuring these interactions are secure, reliable, and scalable.

Role Summary

As the Engineering Manager for the API Platform team, you will be responsible for people leadership, delivery execution, and operational excellence of the public API platform. You will lead a group of backend engineers in building the foundational systems that power all public-facing APIs at 1Password. This role acts as the delivery and people DRI for the API platform, partnering with technical DRIs to balance near-term delivery with long-term platform integrity, scaling to support 1Password’s largest initiatives.

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience managing, leading, and mentoring software engineering teams.
• Experience building and operating API platforms, backend systems, or shared infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of API design, platform engineering, and developer-facing systems.
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and identity concepts (OAuth, IAM, scoped access, policy enforcement).
• Proven ability to deliver complex technical initiatives through others, especially in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

What You Can Expect

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers building foundational API infrastructure, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Define clear goals, manage team capacity, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery while balancing speed, safety, and long-term maintainability.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and support career growth and development for team members.
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work while maintaining high standards for reliability, security, and operational health.

Platform Delivery & Strategy

• Own delivery of the public API platform, including shared services, core APIs, and platform capabilities used by teams across 1Password.
• Ensure APIs are secure, stable, and resilient as adoption grows.
• Drive execution against a multi-quarter roadmap.
• Ensure the team balances near-term feature delivery with long-lived API contracts and platform integrity.
• Uphold strong engineering practices across code quality, testing, operational readiness, and incident response.

Technical Direction & Operational Excellence

• Partner with technical DRIs to ensure platform decisions align with long-term architectural direction.
• Support the team in making sound tradeoffs between speed, safety, and long-term maintainability.
• Promote operational excellence, including monitoring, observability, and resilience as platform usage scales.

Our Culture

At 1Password, we prioritize collaboration, clear communication, receptiveness to feedback, and alignment with our core values: keep it simple, lead with honesty, and put people first. We challenge the status quo, experiment, and iterate to find the best solutions. Our work is demanding, fast-paced, and strives for excellence, seeking individuals who are proven experts, highly adaptable, curious, and driven to make an impact.

How We Work With AI

We are committed to leveraging AI to achieve our mission, critically evaluating its current forms to create better solutions. Team members are encouraged to actively learn AI best practices, identify application opportunities, and drive innovative solutions. Candidates are welcome to use AI tools responsibly during the application process. See our site for bias audit information and an opt-out form for AI/ML application assessment.

Our Approach to Remote Work

While 1Password is a remote-first company, in-person travel for engagement is part of almost all roles. Frequency will depend on role and responsibilities, including annual department offsites, team meetings, and industry events. Remote work means working from your home country (Canada or US for this role).

What We Offer

We believe in rewarding hard work through our comprehensive benefits, including:

• 👶 Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.
• 🏝 Generous PTO policy.
• 💖 Four company-wide wellness days.
• 📈 Company equity for all full-time employees.
• 💸 Retirement matching program.
• 🔑 Free 1Password account.
• 🤝 Paid volunteer days.
• 🌎 Employee-led inclusion and belonging programs and ERGs.
• 🏆 Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly.

Key skills/competency

• API Design
• Platform Engineering
• Authentication & Authorization
• IAM (Identity and Access Management)
• Backend Systems Development
• Team Leadership & Mentoring
• Delivery Management
• Operational Excellence
• Cybersecurity Principles
• Scalability & Reliability