# Security Engineer Salary Lead: $214k median (2026)

> lead security engineer salary - based on 304 live postings across 30+ ATS sources.

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## Salary

- **Median:** $214k
- **25th-75th percentile:** $178k - $239k
- **Based on:** 169 disclosed salaries from live postings

## Hiring across industries (ISIC Rev.4)

- Computer programming, consultancy and related activities (division 62, 88 open)
- Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding (division 64, 60 open)
- Employment activities (division 78, 18 open)
- Manufacture of other transport equipment (division 30, 15 open)
- Scientific research and development (division 72, 15 open)
- Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products (division 26, 13 open)

## Top companies hiring

- JPMorganChase (11 open)
- Okta (10 open)
- Raytheon (8 open)
- Anthropic (8 open)
- Ladders (6 open)
- TENEX.AI (6 open)
- Mastercard (5 open)
- hackajob (4 open)

## Sample live roles

- [Staff Application Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/staff-application-security-engineer-at-datadog-4397324428) - Datadog - New York, NY - $244,000—$305,000
- [Staff Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/staff-security-engineer-at-assured-4388103499) - Assured - Palo Alto, CA - $220K - $240K
- [Staff Cybersecurity Engineer - Aircraft Power Systems](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/staff-cybersecurity-engineer-aircraft-power-systems-at-protingent-4322645041) - Protingent - Kirkland, WA - $132,983 - $199,474
- [Staff AI Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/staff-ai-security-engineer-at-coreweave-4406758334) - CoreWeave - Sunnyvale, CA - $188,000 to $275,000
- [Staff Corporate Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/staff-corporate-security-engineer-at-airwallex-4360562060) - Airwallex - San Francisco, CA - $175K - $270K
- [Staff Product Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/staff-product-security-engineer-at-harvey-4407973728) - Harvey - New York - $220,000 - $330,000
- [Cyber Security Engineer-Principal](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/cyber-security-engineer-principal-at-constellation-west-4233261315) - Constellation West - Offutt Air Force Base, NE
- [Lead Security Engineer
United States](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/lead-security-engineer%0Aunited-states-at-micerate-4445609602) - MiceRate - United States
- [Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/principal-security-engineer-infrastructure-security-at-openai-4417165194) - OpenAI - United States - $347K - $490K
- [Lead Associate Principal, Security Engineering](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/lead-associate-principal-security-engineering-at-the-options-clearing-corporation-occ-4427694362) - The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) - Greater Chicago Area - $145,200.00 - $236,700.00
- [Principal Software Security Engineer - S3E](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/principal-software-security-engineer-s3e-at-raytheon-4399226155) - Raytheon - Tucson, AZ
- [Member of Technical Staff - Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/member-of-technical-staff-security-engineer-at-reflection-4407646047) - Reflection - San Francisco, CA

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