Senior Security Engineer, Detection and Response

Summary

Join 1Password's Detection and Response team as a Senior Security Engineer and contribute to the development and implementation of strategies to detect and respond to security threats. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to enhance our security posture. This remote position, available in Canada and the US, offers the opportunity to significantly impact our security by safeguarding systems and data against cyber threats. The role involves developing threat detections, leading incident responses, automating security processes, and mentoring team members. Competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package are offered.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical engineering role, at least 3 of those years in a security role with a focus on Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Digital Forensics and/or Threat Intelligence
• A high level of comfort with incident response frameworks, and experience calmly, and blamelessly leading complex security incidents
• Proficient in leveraging security logs and/or a SIEM to detect, investigate, and respond to security events
• Experience developing SOAR solutions for enhancing behavior analytics and security response automations
• Experience with Detection-as-Code to automate detection engineering workflows
• Knowledge of threat actor TTPs and current threat landscape to develop threat-based detections
• Experience with runtime security, EDR, and forensic analysis tools on various operating systems
• Proficient in threat hunting and log analysis across multiple environments
• Knowledge of cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP) including security best practices for deployment of cloud services
• Experience in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for data analysis, automation and tool development
• Experience with software development lifecycle, project management, Terraform, and CI/CD in GitLab or GitHub
• Strong problem-solving skills with minimal supervision and takes ownership of responsibilities, identifying and addressing challenges proactively
• Excellent communication skills with a drive for collaboration and leveling up team members
• Passion for fostering psychological safety and stability in high-stress environments

Responsibilities

• Develop threat detections and response plans across 1Password’s infrastructure, products, internal tools and corporate environments
• Own individual and team projects from scoping to planning, ensuring deliverables are met and in alignment with Security OKRs
• Build strong relationships with partner and stakeholder teams in order to advise on improvements that enable detection capabilities and response procedures
• Design and build systems to automate security processes and workflows to improve efficiency and scalability
• Partner with developers, engineers and other departments to improve security logging and address security issues for the product
• Lead response to potential security incidents, and help design and implement remediations
• Participate in an on-call rotation with potential for work on nights or weekends in the event a significant security issue is identified
• Standardize, write response playbooks that can be utilized by all members of the team
• Mentor and train team members to uphold a high team standard
• Participate in security audits, vendor assessments and security tabletop exercises
• Be a subject matter expert on the team’s security tooling, processes and procedures

Benefits

• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• Wellness spending allowance
• Generous PTO policy
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
• Wellness Coach membership
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Company equity 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
• USA-based roles only: The Annual base salary for this role is between $156,000 USD and $210,000 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 $143,000 CAD and $193,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs