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What Is a Security Engineer?

A Security Engineer protects a company’s systems, data, and customers from threats. At an AI startup this includes application and cloud security, secure handling of sensitive training data, and increasingly the security of model and ML pipelines themselves.

255Open roles now
152Companies hiring
$207,750Median salary
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Typical responsibilities

  • Identify, triage, and remediate security vulnerabilities
  • Harden cloud infrastructure, services, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Run threat modeling and security reviews of new features
  • Build detection, monitoring, and incident-response capabilities
  • Drive compliance and secure handling of sensitive data
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Security Engineer salary range

Based on 100 Security Engineer postings in our database that disclose a salary, the range runs from $110,210 to $405,000, with a median of $207,750. These are aggregate figures across disclosing postings only — individual offers vary by company, stage, and location.

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Open Security Engineer roles

RoleCompanyLocationPosted
Security EngineerCognition AISan FranciscoJun 16, 2026
Staff Cloud Security EngineerAddeparPolandJun 16, 2026
Senior Application Security EngineerMoonPayNew York - HybridJun 16, 2026
Staff Application Security EngineerThe Nuclear CompanyWashington, DCJun 16, 2026
Staff Cloud Security EngineerThe Nuclear CompanyWashingto, DCJun 16, 2026
Staff Software Security EngineerAndurilWashington, DC (999)Jun 15, 2026
Staff Software Security EngineerAndurilSeattle, Washington, United StatesJun 15, 2026
Staff Software Security EngineerAndurilWashington, District of Columbia, United StatesJun 15, 2026
Staff Software Security EngineerAndurilCosta Mesa, California, United StatesJun 15, 2026
Senior Product Security EngineerDatabricksUnited StatesJun 15, 2026
Senior Security Engineer, Incident ResponseDatabricksAmsterdam, NetherlandsJun 15, 2026
Sr. Enterprise Security EngineerDatabricksRemote (California)Jun 15, 2026
Staff Product Security EngineerDatabricksUnited StatesJun 15, 2026
Security EngineerLambdaSan Francisco Office (Fremont St)Jun 15, 2026
Senior Product Security EngineerMach IndustriesHuntington Beach, CAJun 15, 2026
Lead Cloud Security/AppSec EngineerFlagship PioneeringCambridge, MA USAJun 15, 2026
Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer-L3 (Palo Alto & Cloud Operations)GruveMumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaJun 15, 2026
Cloud Security EngineerMeshEuropeJun 15, 2026
Senior Security EngineerNablaParis officeJun 15, 2026
Security Engineer - IAMNetradyneBengaluruJun 15, 2026
Lead Security EngineerLiberateBostonJun 14, 2026
Manager, Enterprise Security EngineeringAndurilSeattle, WAJun 12, 2026
Manager, Enterprise Security EngineeringAndurilWashington, District of Columbia, United StatesJun 12, 2026
Manager, Enterprise Security EngineeringAndurilSeattle, Washington, United StatesJun 12, 2026
Manager, Enterprise Security EngineeringAndurilCosta Mesa, California, United StatesJun 12, 2026
Senior Product Security EngineerChainguardCanada - RemoteJun 12, 2026
Senior Product Security EngineerChainguardUnited States - RemoteJun 12, 2026
Senior Product Security EngineerChainguardUnited Kingdom - RemoteJun 12, 2026
Senior Security Engineer (AI Platform)ChainguardCanada - RemoteJun 12, 2026
Senior Security Engineer (AI Platform)ChainguardUnited States - RemoteJun 12, 2026
Senior Security Engineer (Cyber Resiliency)ChainguardUnited States - RemoteJun 12, 2026
Senior Security Engineer (Cyber Resiliency)ChainguardCanada - RemoteJun 12, 2026
Senior Security EngineerEngineUS RemoteJun 12, 2026
Staff Cloud Security EngineerEngineUS RemoteJun 12, 2026
Security EngineerFireworks AISan Mateo, CAJun 12, 2026
Senior/Staff Security Engineer, Threat IntelligenceAnthropicZürich, CHJun 11, 2026
WebApp Offensive Security EngineerHorizon3AIUS RemoteJun 11, 2026
Co-Op, Lab IT/OT Security EngineerLila SciencesCambridge, MA USAJun 11, 2026
Security Engineer, Detection and ResponseServalSan FranciscoJun 11, 2026
Senior Offensive Security Engineer (AppSec)WebAIAustin, TXJun 11, 2026
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