[Hiring] Senior Privacy Engineer @1Password

Role Description

We are excited to welcome a Senior Privacy Engineer to join 1Password. Our mission is to build products people trust—and privacy is a core part of that trust. In this role, you’ll bring strong data engineering / big data systems experience to help us build and operate privacy-preserving data practices at scale, especially across data ingestion, governance, and pipeline processing in a modern SaaS environment.

As part of the Privacy Engineering group (within GRC and Security, and in close partnership with Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal/Privacy), you’ll help shape how we collect, process, store, access, and delete data across services, telemetry, analytics, support tooling, third-party integrations, and emerging AI/ML solutions—translating privacy requirements into durable engineering controls.

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or data analytics at SaaS companies, with a strong emphasis on data ingestion, governance, and pipeline processing
• Demonstrated expertise building and operating production systems at meaningful scale, including debugging, reliability, and operational ownership
• Experience implementing data access control and data obfuscation layers on top of data lakes or large analytics environments, including policy-based access, row/column-level controls, tokenization/masking, and privacy-aware query patterns
• Experience implementing these controls via commodity governance/authorization offerings (e.g., Databricks Unity Catalog, Okera, Privacera, or similar technologies), including integration into real-world data workflows and enforcement paths
• Experience performing analytics and investigations using Python and SQL (e.g., validating data minimization, measuring collection changes, auditing datasets, and supporting privacy reviews)
• Experience building or supporting privacy-safe controls, infrastructure, and analysis for AI/ML solutions (e.g., data provenance and curation, access controls around training/evaluation datasets, inference telemetry hygiene, retention/deletion alignment, and practical mitigations for leakage risk)
• Familiarity with DLP-style controls and privacy-aware analytics patterns
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, TypeScript) and a track record of delivering production-quality code
• Practical privacy engineering experience implementing controls such as minimization, access controls, encryption, retention/deletion, and privacy-safe analytics/telemetry
• Ability to translate privacy requirements (GDPR / CCPA / CPRA concepts) into engineering work without relying on “paper compliance”
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort partnering with Product, Legal/Privacy, Security, Data, and Engineering teams

Requirements

• Experience building data governance platforms (classification, catalogs, automated retention/deletion, policy enforcement)
• Experience with distributed systems and their operational tradeoffs (availability, performance, observability, rollout safety)
• Security company experience or familiarity with threat modeling and secure development practices
• Familiarity with compliance/security frameworks and audits (e.g., ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2) in ways that translate into real engineering controls

Benefits

• USA-based roles: 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: 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 time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

Company Description

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 Extended 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.