Staff Security Engineer, Security Incident Response

1PasswordNorth AmericaLead4+ years experienceSecurity

Specialty

Security

The role

1Password is hiring a Staff Security Engineer for its Security Incident Response team. The role combines leading complex incidents with building AI-assisted response tooling and running readiness programs. Open to candidates in Canada and the US.

What you will do

  • Act as incident manager and technical escalation point for complex, high-severity events
  • Design and build AI-assisted and automated systems to triage, investigate and contain incidents
  • Set safety controls, approval gates, auditability and rollback for automated actions
  • Own readiness programs such as tabletop exercises and gamedays
  • Advance threat hunting and insider risk capabilities

What they ask for

  • Significant experience leading high-severity security incidents, as incident commander or equivalent lead
  • Experience building AI-assisted or agentic automation for security operations
  • Strong software engineering skills and experience building production tooling
  • Experience owning a security capability roadmap end to end over multiple quarters
  • Understanding of cloud-native, SaaS and identity-driven attacks and response
  • Experience running tabletop exercises or gamedays
  • Strong written and verbal communication with senior leadership
  • Located in Canada or the US

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on 1Password's careers page behind the apply button.

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