Security Engineer salaries in San Francisco.
What Security Engineer roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$230,500
per year · annualized USD
Typical range
$192.5k – $300k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
52.4%
977 of 1,864 roles
Live roles
1,864
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
Research Engineer, Safeguards Labs
Product Manager, Developer Productivity
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering
Workload Porting & Performance Engineer
Software Engineer, Inference – AMD GPU Enablement
Software Engineer, Foundations Search
Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity
Software Engineer, Inference - Performance Optimization
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
OpenAI
|
$307,500 | 236 |
Astranis
|
$155,000 | 59 |
Databricks
|
$226,000 | 48 |
|
Anthropic
|
$362,500 | 34 |
Okta
|
$230,650 | 28 |
| SA Scale AI | $270,375 | 17 |
Harvey
|
$241,700 | 17 |
Kodiak
|
$210,000 | 17 |
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How much do Security Engineer roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for Security Engineer roles in San Francisco is $230,500 per year. Most pay falls between $192,500 (25th percentile) and $300,000 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $155,000 to $347,500.
These figures are computed live from 1,864 active Security Engineer roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 977 (52.4%) publish a salary range. Pay is normalized to annualized USD so roles can be compared on equal terms; the highest-paying roles listed above show their original posted currency. Numbers refresh every few hours as new roles are posted and older ones close.
Employers currently hiring well-paid Security Engineer roles in San Francisco include Anthropic and OpenAI.
Salary transparency varies by employer and region, so the disclosing share above reflects only roles that publish pay — not every open position. Use it as a directional benchmark rather than an exact offer.