Staff Security Engineer, Security Incident Response

The role

You will serve as a senior technical leader and builder for the Security Incident Response team. You will design AI-assisted systems, lead complex incident responses, and own readiness programs like tabletop exercises.

What you will do

• Serve as incident manager and technical escalation point for complex, high-severity events.
• Design and build AI-assisted and automated systems for triage, investigation, and containment.
• Establish safety controls, approval gates, and auditability for automated actions.
• Own readiness programs including tabletop exercises and incident gamedays.
• Advance threat hunting and insider risk capabilities.
• Plan, sequence, and deliver multi-quarter initiatives.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to other engineers.
• Partner with Security Operations, Product Security, and Engineering teams.
• Foster psychological safety and blameless learning during retrospectives.
• Build reusable systems and tooling to strengthen response capabilities across PSIRT, Privacy, and Engineering.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex, high-severity security incidents as an incident commander or technical lead.
• Experience designing and building AI-assisted or agentic automation for security operations.
• Strong software engineering skills.
• Experience building production tooling, automation, or systems.
• Experience owning a security program or capability roadmap end to end.
• 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.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers or raising technical and investigative capabilities of a team.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Dental
• 401k (USA) or RRSP (Canada)
• Generous paid time off
• Equity grant / RSU program
• Incentive programs
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• Free 1Password account
• Paid volunteer days
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly

Before you apply

• Must be able to work from your home country.
• Join live interviews without using AI tools.
• Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check including employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, social media, or credit history.

About the company

1Password builds the foundation for a safe, productive digital future through enterprise password management and Unified Access Management. The company serves over 180,000 businesses, including Fortune 100 leaders.