Staff Security Engineer salary

Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile.

Skills and pay

Skills linked to higher Staff Security Engineer pay

How much higher or lower the median is for job posts that mention a skill. It shows an association, not a guarantee: better-paid jobs often bundle several scarce skills with senior scope. Skills with fewer than 8 salaries are left out.

Pay listed by employers

Latest Staff Security Engineer jobs that show their pay

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• Staff+ Security Engineer, IT and Corporate SecurityVerkada · Senior level · posted 23 Oct 2026$200,000 – $300,000
• Staff Security Engineer, Risk EngineeringAnthropic · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$320,000 – $405,000
• Staff+ Security Engineer, Developer ToolsVerkada · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$200,000 – $300,000
• Staff+ Security Engineer, Core CommandVerkada · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$200,000 – $300,000
• Staff Security Engineer, DoorDash Labs - AirDoorDash USA · Senior level · posted 16 Oct 2026$193,800 – $285,000

Related roles

Roles close to Staff Security Engineer

Roles that hire from the same employers, in the same currency. Each has its own median and sample, so the difference compares two separate groups.

• Product Managermedian $211,465 · 490 salaries▼ down −11.7%
• Marketing Managermedian $160,000 · 291 salaries▼ down −33.2%
• Software Engineermedian $225,000 · 1716 salaries▼ down −6.0%
• Engineering Managermedian $250,000 · 407 salaries▲ up +4.4%
• Machine Learning Engineermedian $243,290 · 171 salaries▲ up +1.6%
• Operations Managermedian $151,767 · 198 salaries▼ down −36.6%

Evidence

Where these numbers come from

13 salaries from 8 employers, posted between 7 Nov 2025 and 7 Nov 2026. Last updated 7 Nov 2026. Every figure on this page comes from this one group of salaries; the median is the middle value, not the average.

• Employer hiring-system feeds 85%
• Other sources 15%