Senior Security Incident Response Engineer

Cyber StrategiX; United States; Remote; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Equity grant

Generous PTO

Job summary

1Password is seeking a Staff Security Engineer for Security Incident Response to lead high-severity incidents and architect AI-assisted production tooling. You’ll own end-to-end readiness, including tabletop exercises and gamedays, while guiding engineers and cross-functional partners.

The role emphasizes scalable security operations and strategic impact across the organization. REMOTE opportunity for USA/Canada, with potential in-person meetings; compensation ranges from USD 192k to 278k per

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex, high-severity security incidents across multiple environments (incident commander or technical lead).
• Experience designing and building AI-assisted automation for security operations with appropriate decision authority.
• Strong software engineering skills with production tooling or automation experience.
• Experience owning a security program or capability roadmap end-to-end, with multi-quarter delivery.
• Understanding of cloud-native, SaaS, and identity-driven attack techniques and response approaches.
• Experience designing and running tabletop exercises, gamedays, or readiness programs and translating findings into improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including communicating tradeoffs to leadership and stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising investigative capabilities across a team.

Responsibilities

• Serve as incident manager and technical escalation point for complex, high-severity events.
• Design and build AI-assisted and automated systems to improve triage, investigation, and containment.
• Establish safety controls, auditability, and rollback mechanisms for automated actions with human oversight when needed.
• Own the team’s readiness programs, including tabletop exercises and gamedays, from scenario design to debriefs.
• Advance threat hunting and insider risk capabilities through roadmap-led initiatives.
• Plan, sequence, and deliver multi-quarter initiatives maturing the team’s capabilities.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers across the team.
• Partner with Security Operations, Product Security, and Engineering to close gaps from investigations and simulations.
• Foster blameless learning and psychological safety across incident retrospectives and debriefs.
• Build reusable systems and patterns that strengthen response capabilities across PSIRT, Privacy, and Engineering.

Skills

Incident leadership

AI automation for security

Software engineering

Security program ownership

Cloud-native/SaaS security

Tabletop exercises

Communication

Mentoring engineers

Job description

1Password is seeking a Staff Security Engineer for Security Incident Response to lead high-severity incidents and architect AI-assisted production tooling. You’ll own end-to-end readiness, including tabletop exercises and gamedays, while guiding engineers and cross-functional partners.

The role emphasizes scalable security operations and strategic impact across the organization. REMOTE opportunity for USA/Canada, with potential in-person meetings; compensation ranges from USD 192k to 278k per