Cybersecurity Engineer Salary in San Francisco

Cybersecurity Engineer jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $293,904/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Sardine

sardine.ai
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sardine.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • FinTech • Cybersecurity • Fraud Detection
HQ: San Francisco, United States • FinTech • Cybersecurity • Fraud Detection
Top 25% payVerified live · 5 min ago 4 months ago

Deputy Chief Information Security Officer

$235k – $270k per year • Executive • 15+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Architect
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
IAM
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
GDPR
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
SOC 2
Threat Modeling
Zero Trust
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Docker

docker.com
Docker is a leading software platform that enables developers to build, share, and run applications inside lightweight, isolated containers. By packaging code together with all its dependencies, the technology ensures that applications run consistently across any computing environment - from local development machines to large-scale cloud infrastructure. The platform accelerates modern software development, simplifying microservices architecture, automated deployment pipelines, and cross-team collaboration.
docker.com • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Software • Information Technology • Virtualization • DevOps • Est. 2011
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Software • Information Technology • Virtualization • DevOps • Est. 2011
Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 months ago

Senior Supply Chain Security Engineer (East Coast Preferred)

$114k – $234k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote (United States, Canada) • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Java
JavaScript
Java
Gradle
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
npm
DevOps
Docker
Helm
Kubernetes
Debian
Fedora
GitHub
Cybersecurity
Sigstore
SLSA
Cosign
CVE
FedRAMP
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 5 months ago

Senior Security Engineer, Docker Desktop

$113k – $230k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Go
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
containerd
Docker
Cybersecurity
CVE
CVSS
Threat Modeling
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Udacity

udacity.com
Udacity is an online education company headquartered in Emeryville, California, and founded in 2011 by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky after a free Stanford artificial intelligence course. The company sells Nanodegree programs in areas such as programming, data science, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and autonomous systems, built together with industry partners. It shifted toward enterprise and government reskilling contracts and was acquired by Accenture in 2024.
udacity.com • HQ: Emeryville, United States • Corporate Training • Vocational Education • Education • EdTech Platforms • E-learning • Est. 2011
HQ: Emeryville, United States • Corporate Training • Vocational Education • Education • EdTech Platforms • E-learning • Est. 2011
$112k – $227k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (MENA, APAC, Europe, United States, Canada) • Visa sponsorship • Contractor • Senior
ISO 27001
Management
Slack
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DXC Technology

dxc.com
DXC Technology is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia. Formed in 2017 through the merger of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), it trades publicly on the NYSE under the ticker DXC.
dxc.com • HQ: Ashburn, United States • Information Technology • IT Outsourcing • IT Consulting • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2017
HQ: Ashburn, United States • Information Technology • IT Outsourcing • IT Consulting • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2017
Open 115 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 4 months ago

CyberLife Developer - US

$95k – $176k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expPlano • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior • Spanish
COBOL
COBOL
JCL
VSAM
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BrainCo

brainco.tech
BrainCo is a neurotechnology company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, and was founded in 2015. The company develops brain-computer interface technology, including wearable EEG headbands for cognitive training and advanced prosthetic limbs controlled by muscle signals. It operates internationally across the education, healthcare, and wellness sectors, providing specialized tools for focus enhancement, physical rehabilitation, and STEM learning.
brainco.tech • HQ: Somerville, United States • Health & Medical Electronics • Medical & Healthcare Robotics • Robotics • STEM Education • Education • Medical Devices • Health Care • Consumer Electronics • Est. 2015
HQ: Somerville, United States • Health & Medical Electronics • Medical & Healthcare Robotics • Robotics • STEM Education • Education • Medical Devices • Health Care • Consumer Electronics • Est. 2015
Open 116 daysVerified live · 8 hours ago 4 months ago

AI Application Security Engineer

$130k – $261k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Python
TypeScript
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
CI/CD
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
HIPAA
ISO 27001
OWASP Top 10
SOC 2
Threat Modeling
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Zimperium

zimperium.com
Zimperium is a mobile threat defense (MTD) and mobile application security enterprise headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 2010 by Itzhak "Zuk" Avraham and Elia Yehuda, the company was acquired in March 2022 for $525 million by Liberty Strategic Capital (led by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin), with SoftBank and Samsung Next maintaining minority stakes.
zimperium.com • HQ: Dallas, United States • Commerce • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Est. 2010
HQ: Dallas, United States • Commerce • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Est. 2010
Open 118 daysVerified live · 10 hours ago 4 months ago

Sr. Cloud Security Engineer - FedRamp

$121k – $224k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
CloudFormation
GCP
Kubernetes
Shift-Left
Terraform
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
Google SecOps
HashiCorp Vault
ISO 27001
Prisma Cloud
Shift-Left Security
SOC 2
Threat Modeling
Cryptography
Vault
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DuckDuckGo

duckduckgo.com
DuckDuckGo is an independent American software company headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania. The company is private held with a team of passionate people from over 15 counties.
duckduckgo.com • Singapore • Search Engines • Est. 2008
Singapore • Search Engines • Est. 2008
Verified live · 2 days ago 4 months ago

Senior Web Security Engineer, Browser Platform

$179k per year • Equity • Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote (United States, United Kingdom, Canada) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
C#
Kotlin
Perl
Swift
AI/ML
ChatGPT
Claude
AI Agents
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Crogl

crogl.com
About Crogl: founded in 2023, building autonomous AI agents for enterprise security operations. Meet the team, mission, and values.
crogl.com • AI Agents • Cybersecurity • Security Operations • 51-200 employees • Est. 2023
AI Agents • Cybersecurity • Security Operations • 51-200 employees • Est. 2023
Open 121 dayVerified live · 9 hours ago 4 months ago

Applied Security Researcher (Product Engineering)

$110k – $243k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
DevOps
AWS
GitHub
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Hadrian

hadrianautomation.com
Hadrian is an advanced manufacturing technology company that designs and operates highly automated, software-driven factories for the aerospace and defense sectors. Powered by proprietary AI platforms and automated CNC machining workflows, the company produces mission-critical, high-precision metal components - such as parts for rockets, satellites, aircraft, and defense hardware - at significantly faster speeds and lower costs than traditional machine shops.
hadrianautomation.com • Mesa • Los Angeles • Washington • San Francisco • Dallas • Defense Manufacturing • Manufacturing • Aerospace Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees
Mesa • Los Angeles • Washington • San Francisco • Dallas • Defense Manufacturing • Manufacturing • Aerospace Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 5 months ago

Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

$193k – $274k per year • Staff+ • 12+ years expIn office (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
Go
Python
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
IAM
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
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Juicebox

juicebox.ai
Find, verify, and email perfect-fit candidates in one prompt. Search 800M+ profiles across 30+ sources and hire faster with AI.
juicebox.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Technology
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Technology
Open 132 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Security Engineer

$160k – $250k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
LLM
DevOps
AWS
GitOps
Platform Engineering
Terraform
IAM
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
Wiz
Management
Notion
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Immersive Labs

immersivelabs.com
We empower organizations to increase, measure and demonstrate human capabilities in every part of their cybersecurity. Immersive Labs enables you to evidence your cyber capability, risk and resilience across technical and non-technical teams for the first time. Our platform gives you the ability to measure real-time cyber efficacy as it relates to cyber teams, developers, engineers and executives.
immersivelabs.com • Boston • Bristol • Penetration Testing • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Information Technology • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017
Boston • Bristol • Penetration Testing • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Information Technology • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017
Open 136 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Cyber Resilience Advisor

$106k – $145k per year • Equity • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Red Teaming
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Mercor

mercor.com
Mercor is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2023. The company operates a platform that connects a global network of domain experts, including physicians, lawyers, and engineers, with AI labs to provide high-quality data for reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and model evaluation. It develops specialized benchmarks like APEX to measure model performance on economically valuable tasks and provides enterprises with tools to monetize their workflow data for AI training.
mercor.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Professional Services • Data Collection • Data & Analytics • Reinforcement Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2023
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Professional Services • Data Collection • Data & Analytics • Reinforcement Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2023
Open 137 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

$130k – $400k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Senior
Snowflake
AI/ML
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
AWS
CloudFormation
Kubernetes
Pulumi
Terraform
IAM
Cybersecurity
Prisma Cloud
Wiz
Least Privilege
Falco
FedRAMP
ISO 27001
SentinelOne
SOC 2
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Decagon

decagonhq.com
Decagon is an enterprise AI company that builds autonomous customer service agents. Founded by Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform leverages large language models (LLMs) and advanced AI orchestration to automate complex customer support workflows end-to-end.
decagonhq.com • Douglas • San Francisco • Toronto • New York • London • Software • Professional Services • Human Resources
Douglas • San Francisco • Toronto • New York • London • Software • Professional Services • Human Resources
Top 25% payVerified live · 7 hours ago 5 months ago

Security Engineer

$200k – $330k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
Terraform
Cybersecurity
CodeQL
GDPR
ISO 27001
Semgrep
SOC 2
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Prosper Marketplace

prosper.com
Prosper Marketplace operates a peer-to-peer lending platform for personal loans. Borrowers apply online while individual and institutional investors fund the notes. The company also offers home equity products and a consumer credit card.
prosper.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Lending • Banking • Financial Services • Est. 2005
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Lending • Banking • Financial Services • Est. 2005
Open 145 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Sr. Manager, Application Security

$226k – $270k per year • Senior • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
CI/CD
GCP
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
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Fal

fal.ai
Fal is a generative media AI infrastructure platform headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2021 by former Coinbase and Amazon engineers Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, the enterprise is backed by prominent venture investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer Venture Partners, and Salesforce Ventures.
fal.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Generative Video • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Generative Video • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
Open 146 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Staff Security Engineer, Infrastructure

$180k – $250k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Go
Python
AI/ML
Edge AI
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Pulumi
Shift-Left
Terraform
Service Mesh
Cybersecurity
Shift-Left Security
Threat Modeling
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Cryptography
Vault
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Perplexity AI

perplexity.ai
Perplexity AI is an American company that builds an answer engine combining live web search with large language models to return sourced, conversational responses instead of a list of links. Its products span a consumer assistant on web and mobile, the Comet browser, enterprise search over internal documents and the Sonar developer API that exposes the same grounded retrieval stack. Founded in 2022 in San Francisco by former researchers and engineers from OpenAI, Meta and Databricks, the company is backed by NVIDIA, IVP, New Enterprise Associates and SoftBank.
perplexity.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Internet Services • Artificial Intelligence • Search Engines • LLM & Generative AI • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Internet Services • Artificial Intelligence • Search Engines • LLM & Generative AI • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2022
Open 150 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer)

$220k – $405k per year • Staff+ • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States, London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
LLM
Perplexity
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
Red Teaming
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
BloodHound
Burp Suite
Cobalt Strike
CVE
Metasploit
Mythic
Nuclei
Sliver
Threat Modeling
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Baseten

baseten.co
Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform designed to help developers and machine learning teams deploy, serve, and scale open-source and custom AI models. The platform provides performant, low-latency inference infrastructure alongside developer tools like Truss, an open-source model packaging framework. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Baseten enables companies to run state-of-the-art models in production seamlessly without managing underlying cloud infrastructure.
baseten.co • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Hardware • Machine Learning • AI Infrastructure • Artificial Intelligence
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Hardware • Machine Learning • AI Infrastructure • Artificial Intelligence
Top 25% payVerified live · 6 hours ago 5 months ago

Security Engineer

$150k – $250k per year • Middle • 3+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States, Toronto, Montreal, Canada) • Full-Time • Middle
Cursor
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
GCP
IAM
Cybersecurity
GDPR
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Management
Notion
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Retool

retool.com
Retool lets developers assemble internal tools from prebuilt components and data connections. Teams build admin panels, dashboards and operational apps in a fraction of the usual time. The platform also supports workflows and hosted database resources.
retool.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Audit • LLM & Generative AI • Est. 2017
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Audit • LLM & Generative AI • Est. 2017
Open 162 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago

Application Security Engineer

$232k – $318k per year • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
TypeScript
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
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Overland

overland.ai
Pioneering off-road autonomy for defense. We’re not talking commercial trucks and taxis on dirt roads. We’re talking no roads, no GPS, going cross country.
overland.ai • Seattle • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Military • Autonomous Driving
Seattle • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Military • Autonomous Driving
Open 167 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago

Product Security Engineer

$170k – $200k per year • Equity • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
DevOps
CI/CD
NixOS
Ubuntu
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
OWASP ASVS
SBOM
Least Privilege
Robotics
ROS
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Saviynt

saviynt.com
We're building revolutionary identity and security solutions to help the world's largest companies migrate to the cloud and solve the toughest security challenges in record time. What's our secret? Our people. We're a global group of innovators wh...
saviynt.com • San Francisco • Bengaluru • Milpitas • Delhi • Atlanta • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Identity Management • 501-1000 employees
San Francisco • Bengaluru • Milpitas • Delhi • Atlanta • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Identity Management • 501-1000 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 7 hours ago 6 months ago

Senior /Principal Federal Security Engineer

$160k – $200k per year • Lead • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Principal
AWS
Azure
GCP
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
GDPR
HIPAA
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Cybersecurity Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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What salary do Cybersecurity Engineer jobs in San Francisco pay?
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