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Security Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 313 live Security Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
313
Employers
202
Remote
21%
Typical pay
$140k–286k
Verified live (7d)
297

Pay is advertised by 73% of these postings (227 of 313 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

ExperienceMedianPostings
3–5 years$157k95
6–9 years$180k36
10+ years$189k34

Skills in demand

Across 295 security engineer postings that named at least one skill

  • Amazon Web Services57%
  • Python55%
  • Google Cloud Platform31%
  • Terraform28%
  • Microsoft Azure26%
  • CISSP24%
  • Kubernetes24%
  • Large Language Models20%
  • Linux13%
  • TypeScript9.5%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 229 postings stated one

0–2 years
3.5%
3–5 years
55%
6–9 years
25%
10+ years
16%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 219 postings stated one

Remote
28%
Hybrid
40%
On-site
32%

Employers hiring for this

Currently open

All 313 open roles

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