Senior Privacy Engineer

Summary

Join 1Password's Security Team as an experienced Privacy Engineer and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build infrastructure, technical controls, and programs that strengthen our security and privacy practices. This remote opportunity (Canada/US) requires a minimum of 7 years of experience in privacy or security, expertise in core technical privacy concepts, and strong collaboration skills. You will drive privacy initiatives, translate legal requirements into engineering execution, and advise on privacy technologies. The role involves close partnership with legal counsel and driving the development of company-wide privacy policies. Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits (health, dental, retirement, paid time off), equity grants, and incentive programs are offered.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience driving privacy initiatives end-to-end and designing/implementing technical solutions for complex privacy challenges
• Minimum of 7 years of combined experience in the privacy or security space
• Proven ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory requirements into engineering and operational execution
• Deep subject matter expertise in core technical privacy concepts such as anonymization and data protection, as well as familiarity with global privacy regulations (e.g.,CCPA/CPRA, GDPR)
• Exceptional collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Strong ability to influence without authority, negotiate to positive outcomes, and gain buy-in from partner teams on large-scale initiatives
• Ability to thoughtfully evaluate and find an appropriate balance between privacy excellence goals, legal and compliance requirements, technical capabilities/limitations, and business needs
• Willingness to take full ownership and skillfully manage competing priorities, anticipate issues, and proactively drive resolution

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across the company to ensure that privacy is built into our infrastructure, products, services, and processes by design
• Build strong relationships with partner and stakeholder teams in order to advise on product launches and collaboratively develop technical solutions to privacy challenges
• Develop and implement scalable programs, processes, tools, and infrastructure to make achieving privacy excellence easy and fast for teams
• Advise on the technical design and application of novel privacy technologies and solutions, such as data tagging taxonomies, differential privacy implementations, anonymization/pseudonymization methodologies, etc
• Dive deep into product tech stack, review engineering design specs and code, and conduct privacy assessments of the highest risk areas of the business to develop nuanced technical proposals to solve privacy issues
• Partner closely with legal counsel to understand privacy risk and develop technical solutions that ensure compliance with state and international privacy laws
• Drive development and adoption of company-wide internal privacy policies and guidelines that reinforce 1Password’s strong culture of privacy and security

Preferred Qualifications

CIPP/US, CIPP/EU, CIPM, or CIPT privacy certification

Benefits

• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• Wellness spending account
• Generous PTO policy
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
• Wellness Coach membership
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Employee stock option program for all full-time employees
• Retirement matching program
• Training budget, 1Password University access, and learning sessions
• Free 1Password account (and friends and family discount!)
• Paid volunteer days
• Employee-led DEIB programs and ERGs and ECGs
• Fully remote environment
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
• Health, dental, 401k and many others
• Utilization of our generous paid time off
• An equity grant
• Participation in our incentive programs
• Health, dental, RRSP and many others