Senior Developer, CI Architecture

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Establish and enhance reference CI architectures for GitHub Actions throughout Product Engineering.

• Create strategies for job decomposition, parallelization, caching, artifact management, test partitioning and execution, as well as multi-platform builds.

• Collaborate with teams to revamp slow or unreliable pipelines through focused engagements with measurable results.

• Enhance the CI developer experience by simplifying the diagnosis and resolution of failures.

• Develop tools, abstractions, and templates that establish best practices as the standard approach.

• Lead performance optimizations at the application layer encompassing build and compilation strategies, dependency management, and toolchains.

• Work with service and application owners to improve test architecture and minimize test flakiness.

• Convert CI metrics into actionable architectural modifications.

• Assist teams in understanding CI signals and prioritizing impactful fixes.

• Co-create standardized workflows and guidelines with the CI Platform.

• Partner with CI Platform and product engineering teams across various codebases and ownership areas.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in designing or enhancing CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions.

• Practical skills in boosting build and test performance through compilation caching, dependency optimization, parallelization, and test sharding or partitioning.

• Extensive knowledge of multi-platform builds and testing across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

• Strong foundations in software engineering and systems thinking.

• Effective debugging skills utilizing logs and metrics to identify bottlenecks and implement fixes across multiple layers.

• Ability to collaborate across teams and codebases while influencing outcomes without direct authority.

• Familiarity with build systems or toolchains such as Rust, Node/pnpm, or mobile toolchains is advantageous.

• Experience with monorepos, large-scale CI, or initiatives aimed at enhancing developer productivity is a plus.

• Background in developing internal tools like CLI tools, workflow generators, or reusable actions/workflows is beneficial.

• Experience using observability data, such as Datadog CI metrics, to guide performance enhancements is a bonus.

• Must already possess legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada; 1Password does not provide work authorization, relocation assistance, or visa sponsorship/transfers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate enrollment in 1Password's benefits program.

• Health benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• 401(k) for roles based in the USA.

• RRSP for roles based in Canada.

• Generous paid time off.

• Equity grant.

• Participation in applicable incentive programs.

• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.

• Competitive health benefits.

• Generous PTO policy.

• RSU program for the majority of employees.

• Retirement matching program.

• Free 1Password account.

• Paid volunteer days.

• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly.

• Remote-first work environment.

• Opportunities for in-person engagement, including department-wide offsites, team meetings, and customer/industry events.