Security Engineer jobs

Right now there are 1,686 security engineer openings on our board, and 305 of them arrived in the last seven days. 531 of them are fully remote (remote security engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

607 of the 1,686 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $124k to $187k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the security engineer salary page.

The three skills security engineer postings name most often are Cybersecurity (77% of postings), Python (36%) and AWS (34%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 1 measured routes lead into security engineer work. The closest is from penetration tester: a typical penetration tester profile already covers 51% of what security engineer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.