Engineering Manager, API Platform

1Password is a fast-growing company that focuses on building a safe and productive digital future through innovative cybersecurity solutions. The Engineering Manager for the API Platform team will lead backend engineers to develop secure and scalable public APIs, ensuring operational excellence and team growth.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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