Principal Developer Advocate

1Password

4d•$228,000 - $342,000•Remote

About The Position

1Password is growing and is looking for a Principal Developer Advocate to join their team. This role will focus on building an advocacy strategy that supports the awareness and adoption of 1Password's developer tools in the current landscape of developer interactions, which includes just-in-time learning via generative AI and engagement with online communities via social channels. The Principal Developer Advocate 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. They will also represent 1Password Developer Relations at major developer conferences like AWS re:Invent and KubeCon, leveraging these interactions for long-term impact. The company emphasizes a human-centric approach, thoughtful integration of AI, and a commitment to security and privacy. This is a remote opportunity within Canada, the US, and the UK.

Requirements

10+ years in technical roles including software or platform engineering, developer advocacy, solution engineering, or other fields.
Deep familiarity with modern development workflows and patterns.
5+ years experience engaging with developers in visible, public facing roles, and advocating for their needs cross-functionally within your organization.
Experience engaging in sensitive and complex community situations with humility, empathy, judgment, tact, and humor.
Experience collaborating with partners on technical and product marketing integrations and other partnership activities.
Exceptional skills at written and verbal communication.
Ability to 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.
Ability to talk and listen effectively.
A trusted and credible voice in the industry with a large technical audience who use your perspective to shape their real-world technical and architectural choices.
Must be ready and willing to travel for in-person engagement.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Shape 1Password's advocacy function for a new era of developer learning.
Foster and participate in direct, public conversations about AI security.
Publish authoritative content.
Prioritize high-impact channels that drive product awareness, adoption, and feedback at scale.
Represent 1Password Developer Relations at major, high-impact developer conferences (AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, and others).
Leverage in-person interactions for longer-term impact.
Create content that sparks engagement with current and potential 1Password developer community members, at scale, across channels.
Generate awareness, engage in technical conversations, and help users try, contribute to, and give feedback about product workflows.
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.
Synthesize feedback and conversations with community members and partners into actionable insights for 1Password.
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.
Build tools and training to help other 1Password employees engage effectively with the community (e.g., speaking training, talk templates, community engagement guidelines).
Collaborate with other teams to raise the technical bar for their content.