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 |
Join WRITER's security team as a staff detection and response engineer and help protect the AI infrastructure that's transforming how the world works.
Samsara Security is looking for a Senior Threat Detection Engineer. This is a hands-on engineering role: you will build and operate the signals, pipelines, and tooling that power how we discover threats against Samsara and our customers.
Own the security architecture and roadmap for Snap’s Lens runtime, including threat models, trust boundaries, JavaScript engine strategy, and hardening of the script-to-native boundary.
As a Network Security Engineer, you will design, implement, and operate security controls across Zoox's enterprise, OT networks, and cloud infrastructure spanning on-premises data centers and public cloud environments (AWS, GCP), partnering closely with Network Engineering, IT,…
Policies and standards. Own the end-to-end lifecycle of GitLab's security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines: drafting, stakeholder review, approval, publication, annual review, and retirement.
Partner with engineering and product leadership across GitLab, developing enough context in their domains to anticipate security problems rather than react to them.
Lead the security architecture of GitLab's endpoint fleet and related infrastructure, with a primary focus on macOS. Design and support automation for secure endpoint deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management using code-based workflows.
Provide subject matter expertise on network security, firewalls, zero-trust architectures, and industry best practices, with primary focus on modern remote access VPN technologies.
We are looking for a Security Architect / Security Engineer to join our team. This is a Remote-USA role, reporting to the VP, Information Security Engineering in the Exposure Management & Security Operations department.
Applies current systems security engineering methods, practices and technologies to the architecture, design, development, evaluation and integration of systems and networks to maintain system security.
Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. Our Bot & Traffic Defence function owns how Faire holds up against automated traffic: scraping, credential abuse, and application-layer DDoS, from the edge through to detection and scoring.
The Enterprise Security team at Databricks is responsible for securing the corporate environment, including the SaaS platforms, internal tools, integrations, automation workflows, and AI-adjacent systems that Databricks employees and operations depend on.
Job Description Job Description Senior Cloud Security Architect Company: AgileEdge Defense LLC Location: Bedford / Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts Employment Type: Full-Time, W-2 Compensation: $210,000–$230,000 annually Work Arrangement: Hybrid, approximately 50% onsite Security…
This role is our hands-on owner of detection engineering and security operations.
Review projects our development teams build. This will mean putting eyes on code through secure code reviews as well as working with the teams to understand the broad architecture of systems being built.
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We are seeking a Product Security Engineer to help define the future of AI-native security engineering.
Run and improve security operations: triage and investigate alerts across endpoint, identity, network, email, and cloud, and lead incident response from detection through root cause and remediation.
There is no MSSP and no tier-1 queue here. Detection & Response engineers own their detections end to end: you write them, you tune them, and your team is paged when they fire.
The Threat Detection and Response team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer who is passionate about solving the business’s toughest technical-security challenges; you will work within a Security Engineering team that partners with R&D Engineering and R&D Business teams to…
As a Staff Enterprise Security Engineer, you will be a technical leader within the EntSec team, responsible for the foundational security posture of our organization.
As a Senior Security Engineer focused on Data Security , you will play a critical role in defining, building, and leading Upstart’s data security program. This is a highly impactful role that combines deep hands-on technical execution.
As a member of our Security Operations Team, you will collaborate with a global team of engineers to monitor and respond to security events, lead security incidents as Incident Commander, and lead digital forensic investigations in support of Employee Relations, Legal,…
As a member of our Security Operations Team, you will collaborate with a global team of engineers to monitor and respond to security events, lead security incidents as Incident Commander, and lead digital forensic investigations in support of Employee Relations, Legal,…
Analyze large datasets to understand attacker behavior and identify opportunities to strengthen our defenses. Design and build tools and detection systems that identify malicious activity across Riot’s ecosystem.
As Principal Security Engineer with Imagine Pediatrics, you will set the technical vision for how we protect our systems, our data, and the children and families who trust us with their care.
We’re hiring a Staff Security Engineer, Threat Intelligence to build and scale Nscale’s threat intelligence capability and turn adversary insight into actionable security outcomes.
Build and operate the Security Observability & Data Platform (tens of TB/month and growing). This covers ingestion, normalization and retention, plus the query and detection layer on top. Detections are code: tested, reviewed, and measured for precision.
Build and run continuous monitoring of the Sui DeFi ecosystem for security and economic risk: oracle issues, misconfigurations/bad economic parameters, solvency and bad-debt exposure under price shocks, liquidation capacity against on-chain liquidity depth,…
Build and operate security controls and telemetry for EDA compute, storage, and networking - design, ship to production, then own them. Engineer around hard constraints. Protect multi-day, high-value compute jobs without degrading them.
Collaborate across the company to guide the direction of platform security and develop a long-term roadmap for a flexible HW Root of Trust solution that will be integrated into our products, working with hardware, software, research and marketing teams.
As an engineer in NVIDIA's Hardware IP Security team you will play a vital role in protecting our intellectual property from malicious and accidental misuse by helping engineering teams build secure-by-default workflows and environments, crafting training materials,…
Lead security engineering for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies across design, implementation, review, and verification.
You'll discover and evaluate vulnerabilities on both source code and binaries, focusing on low-level technologies such as OS kernels, Hypervisor, boot ROMs, firmware, and hardware. More than just bug finding, you'll develop and build automation to scale your work.
Collaborate across the company to guide the direction of platform security and develop a long-term security roadmap for our products, working with hardware, software, research and marketing teams.
Our partner is looking for a Lead Security Engineer based in Brazil. We are looking for a hands-on Lead Security Engineer to define and drive security strategy within a fully remote, globally distributed technology organization.
We're hiring a hands-on security engineer to be the tech lead for Buffer's Security team. You'll work alongside Adnan , who has carried security at Buffer for years.
We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
We’re looking for thoughtful problem-solvers and builders who want to make a meaningful contribution. We operate with high standards, clear accountability, and a strong focus on security and ethics in everything we build!
In August, Dagster and Prefect became one company. Behind the scenes, that left us with two of nearly everything: two SOC 2 programs, two ways of managing laptops, overlapping tools and accounts, and a long list of tools that each need one clear owner.
Design, implement, and maintain security solutions to harden Coinbase's macOS, Chromebook, and mobile endpoints, focusing on secure configurations, compliance, threat detection, and user experience.
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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