Overview

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.

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. 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.

Role Overview

The Principal Developer Advocate is an individual contributor who will report to the Director of Developer Relations. You will shape 1Password’s advocacy function for a current era of developer learning, fostering public conversations about AI security, publishing authoritative content, and prioritizing high‑impact channels that drive product awareness, adoption and feedback at scale. You will represent 1Password Developer Relations at major conferences such as AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, and others, leveraging those in‑person interactions for long‑term impact.

Key Responsibilities

- Engage: Create content that sparks engagement with current and potential 1Password developer community members, at scale, across channels. Generate awareness, engage in great technical conversations, and help users try, contribute to, and give feedback about product workflows.
- Build: Engineer solutions to unsolved user needs that fill gaps, validate approaches, and inspire secure engineering practices in the real world, in collaboration with users and 1Password partners.
- Advocate: Synthesize feedback and conversations with community members and partners into actionable insights for 1Password to improve user‑facing workflows.
- Strategize: Use data to evaluate engagement channels and prioritize those that effectively generate awareness and adoption at scale. Maximize the impact of targeted,



high‑investment activities like conference speaking to generate impact beyond their normal lifespan.
- Speak: Use your speaking experience at large, high‑stakes developer conferences, including KubeCon, re:Invent, and others.
- Enable: Build tools and training to help other 1Password employees engage effectively with the community. These could be speaking training, talk templates, community engagement guidelines, or other tools that scale advocacy beyond the DA team.

Qualifications

- Technical Fluency: 10+ years in technical roles including software or platform engineering, developer advocacy, solution engineering, or other fields.
- Advocacy Experience: 5+ years engaging with developers in visible, public‑facing roles, and advocating for their needs across functions.
- Community Leadership: Experience engaging in sensitive and complex community situations with humility, empathy, judgment, tact, and humor.
- Partner Engagement: Experience collaborating with partners on technical and product marketing integrations and other partnership activities.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including conference talks, blog posts, tutorials, books, videos, social media, and technical assets such as demo code or reference architectures.
- Connection: Credible voice in the industry with a large technical audience who use your perspective to shape real‑world technical and architectural choices.

Bonus Points

- Security Focus: Experience dealing with security‑conscious developer communities or products (Identity, Auth, DevSecOps).

Salary & Benefits

USA-based roles: Annual base salary between $228,000 and $342,000 USD, immediate participation in 1Password’s benefits program (health, dental, 401K, paid time off, equity grant, incentive programs).

Canada-based roles: Annual base salary between $212,000 and $318,000 CAD,



immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP, paid time off, equity grant, incentive programs).

UK-based roles: Annual base salary between £136,000 and £204,000 GBP, immediate participation in 1Password’s benefits program (health, dental, pension, paid time off, equity grant, incentive programs).

Benefits

- Health and wellbeing: Maternity and parental leave top‑up programs, competitive health benefits, generous PTO policy.
- Growth and future: RSU program, retirement matching program, free 1Password account.
- Community: Paid volunteer days, peer‑to‑peer recognition through Bonusly, remote‑first work setting.

Job Location & Remote Work

This is a remote opportunity within Canada, the US, and the UK. While we are a remote‑first company, in‑person engagement is part of almost all roles and may include annual off‑sites, team meetings, and customer or industry events.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

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.

Accommodation is available upon request during the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please speak to your talent acquisition partner or email us at

Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check that may include 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 to assist in the initial screening of employment applications and improve our recruitment process. If you prefer not to have your application assessed using AI/ML features, you may opt out by completing the provided form.

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📌 Principal Developer Advocate (Canada)
🏢 1Password
📍 Canada