Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

📋 Job Overview

1Password is growing. We’ve surpassed $400M 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. 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. At 1Password, security isn’t just a feature – it’s our foundation. The Security Operations team’s mission is to protect the business by securing the systems, tools, and processes that power how we work. Our mission is to keep 1Password productive, resilient, and safe through proactive monitoring, rapid response, and continuous improvement of preventative and detective controls. As a Senior Security Engineer on the Incident Response team, you will lead complex security investigations while also building the systems and automation that make response faster, more reliable, and more scalable. This role blends deep investigative expertise, hands-on engineering, and structured incident coordination. You will drive incidents end-to-end, build automation and workflows that reduce response friction, and contribute to a culture of learning and psychological safety during high-pressure situations. This is a high-impact role with meaningful ownership across both incident execution and operational engineering. This role reports to the Manager of Security Incident Response.

🏢 About 1Password

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.

🎯 The Role

This role blends deep investigative expertise, hands-on engineering, and structured incident coordination. You will drive incidents end-to-end, build automation and workflows that reduce response friction, and contribute to a culture of learning and psychological safety during high-pressure situations. This is a high-impact role with meaningful ownership across both incident execution and operational engineering.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead and execute security incidents end-to-end, from initial signal through containment, recovery, and post-incident review
• Assess severity, declare incidents, and drive structured coordination and decision-making during active response
• Perform hands-on investigations and threat hunting to determine root cause, attacker behavior, scope, and impact
• Design and build automation to reduce triage, investigation, and response time
• Develop scalable systems and workflows that improve incident response and incident management
• Identify recurring pain points and detection/response gaps, and implement durable engineering solutions
• Improve incident response playbooks, case management, and orchestration tooling
• Apply AI-assisted tooling to enhance triage, enrichment, and investigative workflows while maintaining accuracy

📌 Required Qualifications

• An experienced incident lead who can independently drive complex investigations and coordinate diverse stakeholders
• A builder who enjoys improving systems, automation, and workflows – not just responding to alerts
• Calm and decisive under pressure, with strong judgment in ambiguous or high-severity situations
• Structured and organized, with strong project management skills to own complex projects
• A clear communicator who can translate technical findings into actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical audiences
• A collaborative teammate who values blameless learning and psychological safety
• 5+ years of experience in security incident response roles, with 3+ years focused on security engineering and automation
• Proven experience leading complex security incidents in cloud-native or SaaS environments
• Experience building automation or internal tooling to improve security operations
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) and working with APIs or orchestration platforms
• Familiarity with applying AI/ML-assisted workflows to operational security use cases
• Strong understanding of modern attacker techniques and incident response methodologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-facing summaries

🎁 Benefits

USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $153,000 USD and $214,000 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 $144,000 CAD and $202,000 CAD plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid