Remote Security Engineer Salary

Remote Security Engineers earn a median of $130,000 per year, with most postings between $102,164 and $164,000. From 304 job postings that disclosed pay, across 99 companies, August 2026.

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

What Remote Security Engineers earn

10th $70K 25th $102K median $130K 75th $164K 90th $209K
$52K $232K

Each bar is a pay band; height is how many employers post in it.

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Remote Security Engineer vs adjacent roles

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

  • software engineer
  • security engineer

Pay by experience level

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

Mid
$100,000 25
Senior
$126,000 88
Lead / Manager
$164,043 30
Principal / Staff
$174,100 52

Pay by location

Metros with at least three salaried postings.

Remote, US
$139,650 27
Tucson, AZ
$126,000 23
Aurora, CO
$156,000 17
Andover, MA
$100,000 13
Tewksbury, MA
$126,000 9
Cedar Rapids, IA
$126,000 9
East Hartford, CT
$156,000 9
Washington, DC
$150,026 8
Reston, VA
$164,650 8
Austin, TX
$140,000 6
McKinney, TX
$141,000 6
Woburn, MA
$126,000 5

Who is hiring Remote Security Engineers

15 companies with open postings in this sample.

GitHub
$256,350 3
SAIC
$220,000 5
First Citizens Bank
$184,500 5
Rippling
$180,000 8
Workday
$164,275 4
Oddball
$162,500 4
Pratt & Whitney
$156,000 12
Booz Allen Hamilton
$144,400 8
Quantum Sky
$138,000 4
General Dynamics Information Technology
$137,500 10

Also hiring: Raytheon, Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Rippling, General Dynamics Information Technology, Booz Allen Hamilton, NTT DATA, OnBoard, First Citizens Bank, Alpaca, SAIC, 540.

What Remote Security Engineer postings actually ask for

Ranked by how many of the 399 posting descriptions mention them.

U.S. Citizenship 40%
Research and Development 26%
Systems Engineering 16%
Department of Defense 13%
Design Development 10%
Operating Systems 10%
Artificial Intelligence 9%
Electrical Engineering 8%
CI/CD Pipelines 8%
Infrastructure as Code 8%
Configuration Management 8%
Root Cause Analysis 8%
Code reviews 7%
Microsoft Office 7%
Machine Learning 7%
Product Development 7%
System Integration 6%
Incident Response 6%

Where this data comes from

  • 399 live postings analysed
  • 304 (76%) published a salary range
  • 399 (100%) were remote-eligible
  • 140 distinct employers
  • Requirements read from 399 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