[Hiring] Privacy Engineer @1Password

Role Description

As a Privacy Engineer on 1Password’s Privacy Engineering team within the Security organization, you’ll build technical controls, automation, and tooling that help protect personal data across our products and systems.

• Combine software engineering with AI-assisted approaches to improve privacy reviews, data handling, retention, deletion, and telemetry practices at scale.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal and Privacy partners to make privacy by design practical, consistent, and durable across a cloud-based product environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping production software in a Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud, or similarly complex engineering environment.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language, such as Python, TypeScript, or Go, along with strong fundamentals in testing, debugging, version control, and maintainable software design.
• Experience building with large language model (LLM) systems or comparable AI frameworks, including agents, tool-use pipelines, or multi-step orchestration workflows.
• Experience integrating software with external systems through application programming interfaces (APIs), databases, ticketing systems, CI/CD pipelines, or data platforms.
• Practical experience with privacy or data-handling concepts such as data minimization, access controls, retention and deletion, consent, or privacy-conscious telemetry.
• Ability to take ownership of well-defined projects or workstreams from implementation through delivery and collaborate effectively with Security, Engineering, Product, Data, and Legal and Privacy partners.

Requirements

• Experience with privacy regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
• Knowledge of data subject rights workflows, data inventories, third-party integrations, threat modeling, privacy reviews, prompt design, LLM output validation, reliability patterns, or privacy safeguards for AI-assisted features.

Benefits

• USA-based roles: Annual base salary between $123,000 USD and $172,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k, and many others).
• Canada-based roles: Annual base salary between $111,000 CAD and $155,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP, and many others).
• Generous paid time off, equity grant, and participation in incentive programs where applicable.
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.
• Competitive health benefits.
• Retirement matching program.
• Free 1Password account.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly.
• Remote-first work environment.