Security engineer salary in the San Francisco Bay Area
The median posted base pay for security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area is $223K a year, from 592 open jobs at 214 companies. The middle half of the jobs is from $195K to $263K. One job in ten has posted pay above $310K.
- Median posted base pay
- $223K
- Middle half of the jobs
- $195K to $263K
- 10th to 90th percentile
- $160K to $310K
- Open jobs with posted pay
- 592
- Companies
- 214
Security engineer pay by level in the San Francisco Bay Area
Posted base pay for security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, by the level in the job title. A level needs 20 or more jobs with posted pay.
- Level not stated244 jobs$215K$179K to $263K
- Senior207 jobs$216K$197K to $244K
- Staff95 jobs$250K$224K to $278K
- Principal28 jobs$268K$239K to $318K
| Level | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level not stated | $149K | $179K | $215K | $263K | $310K | 244 |
| Senior | $175K | $197K | $216K | $244K | $278K | 207 |
| Staff | $205K | $224K | $250K | $278K | $346K | 95 |
| Principal | $213K | $239K | $268K | $318K | $356K | 28 |
Top-paying companies for security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area
The companies with the highest median posted base pay for security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area. A company name opens its levels in the pay explorer.
- 1Anthropic$363K19 jobs
- 2Lambda$331K5 jobs
- 3OpenAI$309K19 jobs
- 4Roblox$298K17 jobs
- 5Harvey$275K5 jobs
- 6NVIDIA$270K19 jobs
- 7Crusoe$268K5 jobs
- 8Verkada$250K7 jobs
- 9Snap$246K7 jobs
- 10Snowflake$244K6 jobs
- 11Adobe$230K7 jobs
- 12ServiceNow$229K5 jobs
- 13Salesforce$223K22 jobs
- 14Meta$221K20 jobs
- 15SpaceX$220K14 jobs
- 16Google$213K20 jobs
- 17Fluidstack$206K9 jobs
- 18CoreWeave$204K12 jobs
- 19Zscaler$203K6 jobs
- 20Nscale$200K7 jobs
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How we compute these numbers
We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.
We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A role page needs 20 or more open jobs with posted pay. In the bar chart, a company needs 5 or more jobs with posted pay.
The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.