# Security Engineer Salary San Francisco: $235k median (2026)

> security engineer salary San Francisco - based on 134 live postings across 30+ ATS sources.

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## Salary

- **Median:** $235k
- **25th-75th percentile:** $200k - $265k
- **Based on:** 99 disclosed salaries from live postings

## Hiring across industries (ISIC Rev.4)

- Computer programming, consultancy and related activities (division 62, 45 open)
- Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding (division 64, 17 open)
- Employment activities (division 78, 9 open)
- Human health activities (division 86, 7 open)
- Scientific research and development (division 72, 7 open)
- Information service activities (division 63, 4 open)

## Top companies hiring

- Serval (3 open)
- Anthropic (3 open)
- CandidHealth (2 open)
- Haakon Storm, Inc. (2 open)
- OpenAI (2 open)
- SheScans (2 open)
- Bertha Club DAO (2 open)
- Block (2 open)

## Sample live roles

- [Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-at-baseten-4445986943) - Baseten - San Francisco Bay Area - $150K - $250K
- [Security Engineer, Detection and Response, San Francisco](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-detection-and-response-san-francisco-at-corissa-nunn-consulting-4442890353) - Corissa Nunn Consulting - San Francisco, CA - $230,000 - $260,000
- [Security Engineer, Corporate Security](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-corporate-security-at-dot-dot-innovation-4445916711) - DOT_DOT Innovation - San Francisco, CA - $200,000 - $220,000
- [Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-at-decagon-4400354381) - Decagon - San Francisco, CA - $200K – $330K
- [Security Engineer, Agent Security](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-agent-security-at-openai-4417168188) - OpenAI - San Francisco, CA - $234.4K - $385K
- [Security Engineer, Infrastructure](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-infrastructure-at-fluidstack-4379607997) - Fluidstack - San Francisco, CA - $182K - $210K
- [Security Engineer, Corporate Security](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-corporate-security-at-banking-top-4444844378) - banking.TOP - San Francisco, CA - $200,000 - $220,000
- [Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-at-hackajob-4426966561) - hackajob - San Francisco, CA
- [Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-at-cognition-4407202328) - Cognition - San Francisco, CA - $260,000 - $300,000
- [Staff Corporate Security Engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/staff-corporate-security-engineer-at-airwallex-4360562060) - Airwallex - San Francisco, CA - $175K - $270K
- [Security Engineer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/LiteLLM/731931b0-1073-4ff9-901e-a9cf8a02cb56) - LiteLLM - San Francisco, California
- [Security Engineer, Application Security](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-engineer-application-security-at-openai-4426628374) - OpenAI - San Francisco Bay Area - $234.4K - $385K

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