Security Engineer, GRC

📋 Job Overview

1Password is growing. We’ve surpassed $500M 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. 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.

🏢 About 1Password

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.

🎯 The Role

As a Security Engineer on the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team, you’ll help build and scale programs that support commercial audits, federal compliance, security risk management, vendor risk, policy management, and customer trust. You’ll turn complex requirements into practical controls, reliable workflows, and measurable improvements while partnering across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and other teams. You’ll be expected to identify opportunities where AI can improve GRC workflows and turn useful experiments into practical, reliable solutions. Your work will help 1Password protect the people, businesses, and digital experiences that depend on secure access every day.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Manage GRC initiatives spanning commercial compliance, federal compliance, security risk, vendor risk, policy management, and customer trust.
• Support planning, assessment preparation, remediation, and continuous monitoring activities for FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-53, and related programs.
• Partner with control owners, Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, auditors, assessors, and business stakeholders to gather evidence, track actions, and resolve gaps.
• Define and improve how evidence is generated, validated, mapped to requirements, stored, and traced to its source.
• Monitor control health, evidence freshness, configuration drift, exceptions, and remediation progress.
• Build or configure automated and AI-assisted workflows that reduce manual effort and improve the reliability of compliance and risk processes.
• Maintain project plans, action trackers, risk logs, documentation, and status updates while contributing to repeatable team practices and knowledge sharing.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bring three or more years of experience in security, compliance, risk, audit, GRC, program management, or a related technical discipline.
• Manage moderately complex, cross-functional compliance or security initiatives with a high degree of organization, ownership, and follow-through.
• Apply one or more security or compliance frameworks, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, CMMC, FedRAMP, PCI DSS, or similar standards.
• Support FedRAMP or comparable federal compliance programs, ideally in a program management, project management, or cross-functional coordination capacity. Familiarity with authorization boundaries, assessment preparation, Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), continuous monitoring, Third-Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) coordination, or remediation is valuable.
• Translate framework requirements into clear control activities, policies, procedures, test cases, evidence requirements, and operational workflows.
• Work with GRC platforms such as Drata, Tines, Vanta, ServiceNow, Archer, LogicGate, Secureframe, or comparable tools, and use automation techniques such as APIs, scripts, webhooks, ticketing workflows, and cloud or identity integrations.
• Actively use AI in day-to-day work and show a clear trajectory toward building with it, including experimenting with or configuring AI-assisted workflows for GRC, security, risk, or compliance tasks. Understand the need for validation, human judgment, reliable controls, and appropriate review before relying on AI-generated outputs.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with AI-assisted GRC tools and workflows.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and practices.
• Experience working with international compliance standards and regulations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

🎁 Benefits

USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $123,000 USD and $172,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs. Canada-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $111,000 CAD and $155,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US. Candidates must be authorized to work in the respective country.