Confidence: A willingness to take on new challenges, and see them through to completion.
Humility: You're not afraid to ask "stupid" questions and make mistakes (as long as you learn from them).
Curiosity: You look for better ways of doing things, even if everyone seems happy with how they are.
Teamwork: We work together, and succeed as a team!
Bonus points for:
Experience working with standards bodies (e.g. FIDO, W3C, ISO, NIST, OIDF)
Experience with emerging industry standards and technologies (e.g. Passkeys and/or Post Quantum Algorithms)
Experience with Rust and/or Golang, or a demonstrated ability to pick up new languages quickly.
Additional Information
1Password is growing. We've surpassed $400M in ARR and we're continuing to accelerate, earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four years in a row and teaming up with iconic partners like Oracle Red Bull Racing.
About 1Password
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 Unified 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.
If you're excited about the opportunity to contribute to the digital safety of millions, to work alongside a team of curious, driven individuals, and to solve hard problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, then we want to hear from you. Come join us and help shape a safer, simpler digital future.
As part of the Data Security Team, you will be partially responsible for the underlying cryptography across our products. You'll help build cryptographic libraries and implement the latest algorithms directly into our client applications with security, performance and usability in mind. You'll develop proof-of-concepts and implement new industry specifications into code. You'll also conduct code and design reviews to ensure good cryptographic hygiene and standards across our codebase.
This is a remote opportunity within Canada or the US. This position will be for 4 months - September to December 2026.
What you can expect:
You have a passion for using modern cryptographic algorithms and want to learn how to apply them in real world situations.
You work well in a team environment with positive communications amongst a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders
Comfortable to work within a small team of security developers who are specialists in Rust and Golang Security
Develop cryptographic or other security libraries to share common security-critical code across our applications
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