Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 1Password builds cybersecurity and unified access management solutions that help organizations secure identities, applications, and devices. The Staff Security Engineer will provide senior technical leadership for security incident response, lead complex incidents, build AI-assisted response systems, and advance readiness, threat hunting, and insider risk capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as incident manager and technical escalation point for complex, high-severity events, bringing structure, sound judgement, and clear decision-making under pressure
- Design and build AI-assisted and automated systems that improve how quickly and consistently the team can triage, investigate, and contain incidents
- Establish appropriate safety controls, approval gates, auditability, and rollback mechanisms for automated and AI-assisted actions, ensuring high-impact decisions remain appropriately human-controlled
- Own the team's readiness programs, including tabletop exercises and incident gamedays, from scenario design and execution through debriefing and translating finishes into concrete (or measurable) improvements
- Advance the team's threat hunting and insider risk capabilities by identifying opportunities, defining priorities, and delivering roadmap work that improves investigative depth and coverage
- Plan, sequence, and deliver multi-quarter initiatives that mature the team's capabilities, bringing project management discipline to work that doesn't fit neatly into a sprint
- Mentor and provide technical leadership to other engineers, strengthening engineering rigor and investigative judgement across the team
- Partner with Security Operations, Product Security, and Engineering teams to close gaps surfaced through investigations, hunting, and simulations
- Foster psychological safety and blameless learning across incident retrospectives, gamedays, and tabletop debriefs
- Extend strong incident response practices beyond the immediate team by building reusable systems, tooling, and operating patterns that strengthen response capabilities across areas such as PSIRT, Privacy, and Engineering
Skills
- Significant experience leading complex, high-severity security incidents across multiple environments, including serving as an incident commander or equivalent technical lead
- Experience designing and building AI-assisted or agentic automation for security operations (triage, investigation, containment), with sound judgment about where automation should and shouldn't hold decision authority
- Strong software engineering skills, and experience building production tooling, automation, or systems rather than only operating existing security platforms
- Experience owning a security program or capability roadmap end to end, including planning, sequencing, and delivering multi-quarter work
- Strong understanding of cloud-native, SaaS, and identity-driven attack techniques and response approaches
- Experience designing and running tabletop exercises, gamedays, or comparable readiness programs and translating findings into improvements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to represent technical tradeoffs to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience mentoring engineers or otherwise raising the technical and investigative capabilities of a team
- This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US
- Travel for in-person engagement is a part of almost all roles, and we require our employees to be ready and willing to take part
- Remote work at 1Password does mean working from your home country
Benefits
- Immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program, including health and dental benefits and a 401k (USA-based roles only)
- Immediate participation in 1Password's generous benefits program, including health and dental benefits and an RRSP (Canada-based roles only)
- Generous paid time off
- An equity grant
- Participation in incentive programs, where applicable
- Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
- Competitive health benefits
- Generous PTO policy
- RSU program for most employees
- Retirement matching program
- Free 1Password account
- Paid volunteer days
- Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
- Remote-first work environment
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