600 live roles · 234 fully remote · freshest first

Security Engineer jobs

Live security engineer openings from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source. What the role pays, across markets and seniority: security engineer salary.

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What 600 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 84 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 37 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	4	1	—
Untagged (mid)	337	79	$120k–$260k
Senior / lead	259	104	$172k–$229k

Seniority is read from posting titles; roles with no level in the title are counted as mid. Bands cover only postings that state pay, and only where five or more do.

Skills named most

Share of postings naming each skill, from the posting text itself.

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Routes into security engineer

The measured pivots that lead here, ranked by how much of the destination a typical origin profile already covers.

Penetration Tester → Security Engineer47% readiness

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Quick answers

How many security engineer jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 600 security engineer openings on our board, and 84 of them arrived in the last seven days. 234 of them are fully remote (remote security engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do security engineer jobs pay?

184 of the 600 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $145k to $236k 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.

What skills do security engineer postings ask for?

The three skills security engineer postings name most often are Cybersecurity (66% of postings), Python (42%) and AWS (40%). 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.

Can I move into security engineer work from an adjacent role?

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 47% of what security engineer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.

Listings backfilled from re-displayable sources (company career pages, remote-job boards, and public-sector postings), freshest first, refreshed with the nightly scrape. Each links out to apply at the original posting; PivotHop does not host applications. Salary shown where the posting states it.