Senior Director Engineering, Identity Security Platform Infrastructure

1Password is a rapidly growing company focused on enhancing digital security for businesses. The Senior Director of Engineering for Identity Security Platform Infrastructure will lead the organization responsible for the vision, strategy, and delivery of identity and authentication infrastructure platforms, ensuring secure access to digital resources.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and scale the Identity Security Platform Engineering organization: Set and align vision and strategy with company priorities; build and organize teams; partner cross-functionally to establish roadmaps; and own delivery execution and post-delivery operations for 1Password’s Identity Platform cloud services and APIs
• Deliver secure, scalable, highly resilient API-first services: Drive the technical direction and outcomes for identity, authentication, authorization, provisioning, credential management, and trusted execution enclaves infrastructure. Enable high-quality decision-making by balancing data, speed, judgment, and risk, while empowering teams to own outcomes
• Operationalize the Identity Platform Infrastructure “as a service” model: Partner deeply with internal builders to deliver highly valued, friction-free services at global scale. Ensure disciplined, anti-entropy operations through strong observability, continuous improvement mechanisms, and thoughtful resource investment
• Technical leadership and excellence: Uphold high standards for architecture, reliability, performance, and security; lead and influence technical design and implementation reviews across the organization
• Cross-functional partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Security, and Product Engineering to prioritize investments and accelerate delivery of end-customer value
• Grow and develop talent: Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent; foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, ownership, and business impact; and develop leadership depth by coaching senior leaders and proactively shaping future workforce capabilities

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles
• Strong background in building and operating cloud-native, cloud-scale platform and infrastructure services
• Proven ability to lead organizations through platform transformation while delivering reliable infrastructure services to internal customers
• Demonstrated success partnering with Product, Security, Engineering, and Customer Success teams
• Ability to connect technical strategy to business outcomes and inspire teams around both near- and long-term goals
• Track record of building, scaling, and operating diverse, high-performing engineering organizations and career ladders
• Experience modernizing monolithic systems into API-first, cohesive, horizontally scalable, and resilient services
• Solid understanding of modern identity, secrets management, and access control patterns