Security Engineer, GRC

As a Security Engineer on the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team, you'll help build and scale programs that support commercial audits, federal compliance, security risk management, vendor risk, policy management, and customer trust. You'll turn complex requirements into practical controls, reliable workflows, and measurable improvements while partnering across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and other teams. You'll be expected to identify opportunities where AI can improve GRC workflows and turn useful experiments into practical, reliable solutions. Your work will help 1Password protect the people, businesses, and digital experiences that depend on secure access every day. How we're using AI today Our Engineering, Product, and Design teams are thoughtfully integrating AI across the full software and product development lifecycle to move faster without sacrificing quality or security. In practice, that looks like engineers using AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate reviews and catch bugs earlier, product managers synthesizing user research at scale, and designers rapidly prototyping and iterating with AI-generated mockups. We approach AI the same way we approach security: with clear principles, human accountability at every consequential decision point, and rigorous evaluation before anything ships to customers. This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US. What we're looking for: • Bring three or more years of experience in security, compliance, risk, audit, GRC, program management, or a related technical discipline. • Manage moderately complex, cross-functional compliance or security initiatives with a high degree of organization, ownership, and follow-through. • Apply one or more security or compliance frameworks, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, CMMC, FedRAMP, PCI DSS, or similar standards. • Support FedRAMP or comparable federal compliance programs, ideally in a program management, project management, or cross-functional coordination capacity. Familiarity with authorization boundaries, assessment preparation, Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), continuous monitoring, Third-Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) coordination, or remediation is valuable. • Translate framework requirements into clear control activities, policies, procedures, test cases, evidence requirements, and operational workflows. • Work with GRC platforms such as Drata, Tines, Vanta, ServiceNow, Archer, LogicGate, Secureframe, or comparable tools, and use automation techniques such as APIs, scripts, webhooks, ticketing workflows, and cloud or identity integrations. • Actively use AI in day-to-day work and show a clear trajectory toward building with it, including experimenting with or configuring AI-assisted workflows for GRC, security, risk, or compliance tasks. Understand the need for validation, human judgment, reliable controls, and appropriate review before relying on AI-generated outputs. What you can expect: • Manage GRC initiatives spanning commercial compliance, federal compliance, security risk, vendor risk, policy management, and customer trust. • Support planning, assessment preparation, remediation, and continuous monitoring activities for FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-53, and related programs. • Partner with control owners, Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, auditors, assessors, and business stakeholders to gather evidence, track actions, and resolve gaps. • Define and improve how evidence is generated, validated, mapped to requirements, stored, and traced to its source. • Monitor control health, evidence freshness, configuration drift, exceptions, and remediation progress. • Build or configure automated and AI-assisted workflows that reduce manual effort and improve the reliability of compliance and risk processes. • Maintain project plans, action trackers, risk logs, documentation, and status updates while contributing to repeatable team practices and knowledge sharing. USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $123,000 USD and $172,000 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 $111,000 CAD and $155,000 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. At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set. This posting is for an existing vacancy.