Principal Developer Advocate

About this role

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. 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.

Developer interactions and conversations have changed. They have shifted away from owned web properties and in-person events toward just-in-time learning via generative AI and engagement with online communities via social channels. Developer advocates will build an advocacy strategy that works with this new context to support awareness and adoption of 1Password's developer tools, through technical depth, authenticity, and by advocating for users and their needs wherever they are.

The Principal Developer Advocate is an individual contributors who will report to the Director of Developer Relations. You will shape 1Password's advocacy function for a new era of developer learning. You will foster and participate in direct, public conversations about AI security, publish authoritative content, and prioritize high-impact channels that drive product awareness, adoption and feedback at scale. You will be the face of 1Password Developer Relations at major, high-impact developer conferences: AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, and others, and leverage those in-person interactions for longer term impact.

How we’re using AI today

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, the US, and the UK.

What we're looking for:

- Technical Fluency: 10+ years in technical roles including software or platform engineering, developer advocacy, solution engineering, or other fields. You are deeply familiar with modern development workflows and patterns.

- Advocacy Experience: 5+ years experience engaging with developers in visible, public facing roles, and advocating for their needs cross-functionally within your organization.

- 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 skills at written and verbal communication. You communicate well in multiple formats including conference talks, blog posts, tutorials, books, videos, social media, and through technical assets including demo code or reference architectures. You are good at talking and listening.

- Connection: You are a trusted and credible voice in the industry and have a large technical audience who use your perspective to shape their real-world technical and architectural choices.

Bonus points for:

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

What you can expect:

- 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, that we can use to improve our user-facing workflows.

- Strategize: Use data to evaluate engagement channels, and prioritize ones 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 the largest and highest-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 can scale advocacy beyond the DA team. Collaborate with other teams to raise the technical bar for their content.

USA-based roles only:

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