Remote Security Engineer Skills and Job Description (September 2026)

Python is asked for by 34% of Remote Security Engineer employers, the most common requirement across 300 live postings read in September 2026. Then AWS, Azure, SQL.

Median posted pay is $131,441, most postings between $100,402 and $171,000 — from 242 postings that disclosed it, across 78 companies.

Posted pay is up 5.0% since 2026-09-07 ($125,194 → $131,441).

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These are ranges employers published in their own job postings — not salaries people typed into a form years ago.

What Remote Security Engineer postings actually ask for

Ranked by how many of the 300 posting descriptions mention them.

Python 34%
AWS 23%
Azure 22%
SQL 20%
Java 17%
Docker 15%
Terraform 14%
PowerShell 14%
Kubernetes 13%
Git 13%
CI/CD 13%
Software Engineering 13%
Ansible 12%
Technical Documentation 12%
Security Clearance 11%
DevOps 11%
Active Directory 10%
Entra ID 10%
NIST 10%
JavaScript 10%
RESTful Services 10%
Scrum 10%
GCP 10%
SIEM 10%

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These are the requirements Remote Security Engineer postings list. Paste one of those postings and your résumé — FitToHire checks you against every requirement and shows the evidence behind each verdict.

15 companies in this sample have Remote Security Engineer postings open right now.

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What Remote Security Engineers earn

10th $65K 25th $100K median $131K 75th $171K 90th $210K
$58K $252K

Each bar is a pay band. Height is how many of the 78 employers who published a salary fall in it, counted once each.

Pay bands in numbers
Employer median pay by band
Pay band Employers
$57,500–$76,900 12
$76,900–$96,300 5
$96,300–$115,700 10
$115,700–$135,100 14
$135,100–$154,500 7
$154,500–$173,900 12
$173,900–$193,300 8
$193,300–$212,700 3
$212,700–$232,100 1
$232,100–$251,500 6
Total 78

Remote Security Engineer vs adjacent roles

Roles people compare this one against, taken from what they search.

Who is hiring Remote Security Engineers

15 companies with open postings in this sample.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HPE
$244,500 9
NinjaOne
$180,000 18
Booz Allen Hamilton
$142,400 7
Humana
$140,250 22
SAIC
$140,000 13
SRS Distribution
$133,200 4
Serco
$130,382 3
Raytheon
$126,000 13
Eaton
$120,000 32
BV Teck
$112,500 11

Also hiring: Collins Aerospace, VetsEZ, Via Logic LLC, Egis Group, Saint-Gobain.

Pay by experience level

Level is taken from the posting title, so only postings that state one are counted.

Senior
$153,500 61
Lead / Manager
$120,000 56
Principal / Staff
$163,500 16
Intern
$59,500 15

Pay by location

Metros with at least three salaried postings.

Remote, US
$180,000 35
Cedar Rapids, IA
$59,500 10
US
$150,000 7
McKinney, TX
$133,200 7
Washington, DC
$130,000 7
New York, NY
$179,250 7
Chicago, IL
$126,950 5
Springfield, VA
$140,000 5
Columbus, OH
$96,250 4
Nashville, TN
$123,475 4
Louisville, KY
$123,475 4
Charlotte, NC
$135,975 4

Where this data comes from

  • 300 live postings analysed
  • 242 (81%) published a salary range
  • 300 (100%) were remote-eligible
  • 105 distinct employers
  • Requirements read from 300 full posting descriptions
  • Each employer gets one vote in the median, so a company running a large hiring campaign cannot move it
  • Ranges are converted to annual figures; hourly and contract postings are normalised before comparison

How the requirements were read

Requirements are not keyword counts. Each posting is read by our extraction engine, which works out what the employer is actually asking for and separates a requirement from a section heading or a line of boilerplate. Two postings asking for the same thing in different words are counted once, because our skills graph knows which phrasings mean the same thing and which imply others.

The share beside each requirement is the percentage of distinct EMPLOYERS in that sample who asked for it, counted one vote per company so a firm posting the same role many times cannot inflate its own requirements. Measured, not estimated, and read from the posting text rather than counted as keywords.

Because every reading is dated, the movement figures above are real month-over-month change. Sites built on self-reported salaries cannot produce that number: their data has no posting date.