Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $177,000 |
| Median | $205,000 |
| 75th percentile | $253,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $537,000 |
| Listings counted | 382 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 127 | $201,000 |
| Lead | 12 | $197,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 325 | $207,000 | $175,000 to $255,000 |
| Canada | USD | 7 | $190,000 | $181,000 to $198,000 |
Be the point of contact and subject matter expert for all highly regulated Public Sector initiatives across the company. Lead and define the technical vision for the highly regulated products and services.
The Samsara Application Security team protects this vast footprint end-to-end, spanning cloud services, internal systems, and firmware running on IoT hardware in the field.
The Security Engineering team helps make Ramp the most secure place for our customers to collect, manage, and put to work their business’ financial information.
Drive the AI Security technical strategy and roadmap, defining how Ripple secures its AI systems, governs agentic workflows, and embeds security controls into the AI development lifecycle from day one.
You will lead and continuously improve Affirm's enterprise AI security review process evaluating the architecture, data flows, permissions, and design of internal AI tools, agentic/MCP-based systems, and AI features — and embed security requirements into the design phase.
This role is a hands-on engineering position inside Information Security, focused on designing and shipping core CIAM capabilities that protect customers and support growth.
Security Engineers at Dropbox safeguard our digital ecosystem alongside a diverse team of professionals dedicated to protecting our products and users.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world.
MongoDB · 10mo ago
Design and build core security primitives and services that protect MongoDB Atlas compute, networking, and identity across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Join our dynamic team as a Staff Application Security Engineer , where you'll play a pivotal role in securing the Temporal development pipeline, product, and customer execution environment.
As Security Engineer at Linear, you'll be operating in a high-autonomy role with real scope, doing hands-on security work across the product and infrastructure we build.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Security team at Harvey, you will have the opportunity to build security directly into the product.
Coupang is seeking a Staff AI Security Governance Engineer to join our AI GRC (AI Governance, Risk Management, & Compliance) team.
We're hiring our first Security Engineer to own security from every angle: a wearable camera fleet and the jobsite networks it runs on, petabyte-scale video and ML systems, the cloud they live in, the platform our customers log into, and the AI agents our engineers now build…
Design, implement, and manage security controls for containerized workload solutions. Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflows, ensuring compliance with RMF, NIST SP 800-53, ICD 503, and FedRAMP.
We are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Platform Engineer to engage in the design, implementation, and optimization of complex software and network infrastructures.
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.
As a Staff Detection & Response Engineer & Team Lead at CoreWeave, you will drive the strategic vision, technical architecture, and execution of our threat detection and response capabilities across cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
Lead secure design efforts. Partner with engineering teams on secure design and code reviews. Identify and prioritize risks early in the product lifecycle. Build secure by default systems.
The Senior Application Security Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for strengthening Apollo’s secure software development lifecycle and reducing application risk across product, platform, and AI-powered features.
You'll partner closely with Network Engineering, IT, Product Security, Hardware, and Software Engineering, and you'll influence far more systems than you personally operate.
Research, design, develop and implement architecture solutions meeting internal and external security requirements and standards. Apply innovative security primitives to enable next generation secure platforms.
Architecture & strategy. Define security architecture for Flexport's products and services , and set the patterns and reference implementations that make secure-by-default the path of least resistance.
Architecture & strategy. Define security architecture for Flexport's products and services , and set the patterns and reference implementations that make secure-by-default the path of least resistance.
Modernize PAM, secure infrastructure access, and NHI services for NVIDIA’s agentic era, covering privileged users, service accounts, AI/coding/service agents, and autonomous workflows.
Develop shift-left solutions that embed security standards directly into AI-generated code, ensuring constraints, scaffolds, rules, and guardrails are applied during the coding process rather than post-shipment.
Square Financial Services, Inc. (SFS) is Block’s bank. We opened in March 2021 and provide lending and FDIC-insured deposit products to individuals and small businesses on a nationwide basis.
We’re looking for an Infrastructure Security Engineer to design and secure the core systems that power our platform.
Roblox · 6mo ago
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations (US based) will be considered.
This role sits at the intersection of enterprise architecture, security engineering, and business enablement.
Execute on milestones for end-to-end SecOps & Threat initiatives in accordance with the Security roadmap.
Lead security initiatives across the SDLC and improve development practices through scalable automation. Conduct and guide threat modeling and security requirements early in design phases.
The Calix platform enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) of all sizes to transform and future-proof their businesses.
The Samsara Application Security team protects this vast footprint end-to-end, spanning cloud services, internal systems, and firmware running on IoT hardware in the field.
As a Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security at PayPal, you'll help protect 439M active accounts and $1.8T in annual payment volume by leading Product Security engineering across three areas: securing AI-assisted software development, protecting AI-enabled products…
This team's priority is to be prepared for immediate response to any active threat against our systems. Implement Starshield's cyber defense strategy. Continually assess the landscape of cyber threats and develop specific countermeasures for the Starshield systems.
We are hiring a Staff Security Engineer to act as the primary security partner for the Walrus team, providing deep architectural guidance and embedding security practices throughout the development lifecycle, starting from the design phase.
Our team partners closely with platform, infrastructure, SRE, product engineering, risk, and compliance teams to reduce risk in areas such as cloud IAM, Kubernetes and container security, network controls, secrets management, infrastructure-as-code, production vulnerability…
Lead security architecture and design reviews for high-priority Plaid products, working directly with engineering and product teams from early development through launch.
Security Engineers at Dropbox safeguard our digital ecosystem alongside a diverse team of professionals dedicated to protecting our products and users.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world.
We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Your work matters here. At Workday Government, we focus on outcomes that serve a larger mission.
The Network Security team delivers innovative solutions to sophisticated challenges, serving as a critical component of the Workday Security organization's mission to ensure the security and safety of Workday customers, users, and their data.
The Enterprise Identity team sits within Workday's Cyber Security function as a key part of Enterprise Security.
The median Security Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $205,000 a year, based on 382 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $177,000 to $253,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Security Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Security Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $537,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $177,000 and the 75th percentile is $253,000.
Median pay by level in our $100k+ listings: senior $201,000 (127 listings), lead $197,000 (12 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Security Engineer listings are NVIDIA (18 listings, median $204,000), Anthropic (16 listings, median $363,000), Jobgether (14 listings, median $189,000), Samsara (12 listings, median $198,000) and Roblox (9 listings, median $298,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 12, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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