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 |
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Design and implement secure bare-metal and private-cloud architectures (servers, storage, out-of-band management, BIOS/UEFI/BMC firmware posture).
Conduct in-depth code reviews and static analysis to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in financial applications. Design and implement secure coding guidelines and best practices for development teams.
AI is reshaping what product security can accomplish, both as a target and as a tool.
Serve as mentor to other Security Engineers, providing guidance and support. Ability and willingness to assist with Senior level responsibilities if needed. Support and consult with engineering and product teams around application security vulnerabilities.
The Proactive Threat team is responsible for identifying vulnerabilities and security weaknesses across Stripe's systems, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure — before adversaries do.
Partner with Affirm product teams to ensure that security is included in every phase of the product development lifecycle. Conduct threat modeling and architecture reviews to ensure threats are understood, documented, and mitigated.
As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $194,300 - $253,000+ 15% bonus target + equity + benefits determined by role, level, and location.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
Join a growing fintech security team as a hands-on application security leader. You will strengthen the security program and help protect AI-powered workflows in a regulated financial services environment.
You will shape how the firm identifies, protects, and governs sensitive data across workplace and cloud environments. You will have hands-on ownership of the control estate within Infrastructure Security, reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Security. Specifically, you will:
We’re hiring a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer to secure the foundation of ’s compute platform. You’ll own security below the application layer: the Linux kernel, the hypervisors and sandboxes that isolate workloads, GPU drivers and firmware, and the hosts that run them.
We’re hiring a Staff Security Engineer to set the technical direction for security across . You’ll work across our GPU compute fleet, multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments, inference APIs, and the AI systems our teams build and use.
Zone 5 Technologies is seeking a Software Cybersecurity Engineer to lead the design, development, and implementation of cybersecurity protections for advanced unmanned aircraft systems, embedded software, and mission-critical defense platforms.
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You will own endpoint protective controls across workstations, servers, virtual desktops, mobile devices, and browsers, helping keep our firm’s endpoint security posture measurable and resilient. Specifically, you will:
We’re hiring our first Security Engineer to own security at Interfere across our product, infrastructure, internal systems, and vendors. This is a new function, and you’ll own it from day one. This is a hands-on role.
Own identity and access across the company (SSO, MFA, passkeys, device trust, automated joiner, mover and leaver flows) so that who has access to what is provable at any moment.
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Security Engineer to help us build, maintain, and continuously improve the security posture of our rapidly growing ML infrastructure platform.
The Security Engineering team is responsible for protecting our robots, infrastructure, cloud environments, and internal platforms that power 1X.
As a Staff Enterprise Security Engineer at SoFi, you will serve as the subject matter expert for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) while driving engineering across broader enterprise security domains—including email security, endpoint protection, network defense, and phishing…
Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to work with government and industry customers to develop a multi-cloud solution.
The application window is expected to close on: 11/16/2026. NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
The Security team protects Komodo Health's data, platform and people. We run application and cloud security, vulnerability management, detection and response, and our SOC 2 program. We partner with engineering teams so the secure path is also the fastest one.
We are looking for a Principal Security and Privacy Compliance Architect to join our team. This is a Hybrid (3 days/week, Santa Clara HQ) role, reporting to the Director, Technology Risk & Compliance in the Compliance Architect department.
Own software engineering projects end-to-end on a highly autonomous, horizontally integrated team with a lot of leverage. This is a code-forward role!
Deepgram is looking for a Security Engineer to build and automate the technical controls behind our security program.
We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for our security function. This role is critical for leading technical design reviews and ensuring our security posture scales alongside our rapid customer growth.
Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding our AI-powered capabilities into the final frontier, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners.
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CoreWeave is seeking an experienced Senior Network Security Engineer for our network security initiatives to help protect our rapidly scaling cloud infrastructure hosting high-performance AI workloads.
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Developing and implementing advanced threat detection capabilities to proactively identify and mitigate cyber threats. Crafting precise and efficient custom detection logic tailored to evolving threat landscapes.
Our team partners with engineering, product teams, and partners to build secure network solutions that protect critical infrastructure and continuously improve the security posture to meet the needs of our customers.
Lead our adoption of AI agents in security, finding manual workflows and reinventing them. Take proven agentic workflows through development and into production, drive adoption across engineering teams.
Corporate Security at Ramp owns the identity and access layer for the company: Okta, Google Workspace, the SaaS applications behind them, and the governance that decides who holds what.
This is a hands-on Principal Infrastructure Security opportunity within the DevSecOps practice that strengthens security across our primarily AWS-based infrastructure and software delivery. Partner with AppSec and InfoSec to prevent issues and respond effectively when they arise.
We're looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to own the security of that infrastructure. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role: you will own how our production and cloud environments are hardened, isolated, and monitored.
Build and implement network protection frameworks, including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, VPNs and other security technologies.
As a Senior Product Security Engineer (Platform), you'll pair deep GCP and AWS infrastructure experience with AI coding agents to turn threat models into concrete Terraform, Kubernetes, and pipeline fixes, then work directly with platform teams to get those fixes merged.
Every day, Confido processes remittances, deductions, retailer disputes, and trade spend for some of the fastest-growing brands in CPG. Our customers trust us with their bank data, ERP credentials, and retailer portal logins.
We're seeking a mid-senior level product security engineer to own security for assigned products in your technical domain, provide expert consultation on security architectures, guide implementation of security features, develop solutions engineering for complex security…
As a staff security engineer, applications at WRITER, you'll be building the security foundations that protect the AI systems powering some of the world's most recognizable brands.
Build and maintain security services, tools, and automation using Python or Go. Design and implement security controls for AWS and Kubernetes environments using infrastructure-as-code. Create reusable libraries, frameworks, and platforms that enable secure-by-default patterns.
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The Senior Principal Cyber Security Engineer/Specialist is the highest-level technical and strategic leader, responsible for shaping the organization's global cybersecurity vision and influencing the broader cybersecurity industry.
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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