Security Engineer Salary

Based on 240 Security listings with published compensation (561 total jobs)

$244k
Average
$32k
Low Posted
240
With Salary
$850k
High Posted

Security engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $32k to $850k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Security features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 240 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 561 total open Security roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

lead
198 jobs
$282k avg
senior
183 jobs
$218k avg
mid
120 jobs
$163k avg
principal
42 jobs
$316k avg
junior
18 jobs
$182k avg

Top Paying Companies for Security

Security Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
129 jobs
$307k avg
Remote (US)
87 jobs
$210k avg
New York, NY
42 jobs
$264k avg
London, UK
30 jobs
—
United States
24 jobs
$184k avg
Remote
18 jobs
$192k avg
Bangalore, India
15 jobs
—
Tel Aviv, Israel
13 jobs
—
Palo Alto, CA
10 jobs
$192k avg
Washington, DC
10 jobs
$256k avg

How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. Average salary uses the midpoint of each published range. Experience-level and city-level figures use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level and location fields on each listing.

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