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Security jobs in California, United States
964 open roles read nightly from companies’ own hiring pages. Each one links to the original ad.
Security jobs in California at a glance
- Open roles
- 964
- Remote
- 10%
- Posted in the last 30 days
- 290
- Advertised pay, middle half
- $196K – $300Kmedian $242K
From the 873 security jobs here that state yearly pay in USD: the top of each advertised range. Updated nightly.
Hiring most here
- Anthropic 63
- OpenAI 33
- SpaceX 25
- Roblox 19
- Anduril Industries 19
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561–580 of 964 jobs
Enterprise Security Engineer
2 months agoApplied Intuition · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$140K – $180K a yearSecurityWe are looking for someone to lead enterprise security operations within our security team. You will be responsible for ensuring the security of systems and data used by our global workforce. You will work to ensure adequate security controls to manage risk across the…
Cyber Evaluations Engineer
2 months agoAnthropic · United States +2
On-site$300K – $405K a yearSecurityWe're hiring Cyber Evaluations Engineers to build and run the evaluations that measure cyber-relevant capabilities and safeguard robustness in our models. You'll design new evals, run per-release robustness testing, and dig into data on jailbreaks and prompt bypasses to…
Security Operations Analyst II
2 months agoPrometheus Real Estate Group · San Mateo, California, United States
HybridMid level$105K – $135K a yearSecurityOur IT Team is looking for a Security Operations Analyst II based in San Mateo responsible for leading in-depth investigations and incident response to escalated events and be involved in security-based projects as well as manage security solutions/systems. This role correlates…
OpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States +3
HybridFull-time$216K – $240K a yearSecurityGovernance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is foundational to Security delivering mission outcomes at OpenAI. The GRC team provides security assurances and builds compliance for OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but operational in how we…
California State University · San Marcos, California, United States
Temporary$5,507.00 – $6,677.00 a monthSecurityThe Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at California State University San Marcos accepts applications on an on-going basis for our pool of part-time lecturers for Masters in Cybersecurity Program.
AI Security & Control Researcher
2 months agoApollo Research · London, England, United Kingdom +1
On-siteFull-time$204K – $385K a yearSecurityApollo Research works with most frontier AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Thinking Machines and others) to test their models before deployment and collaborate on fundamental scheming research. Our coding agent security product, Watcher, is deployed in production…
AI Agent Security Architect
2 months agoReplit · Foster City, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staffSecurityWe are looking for an AI Agent Security Architect to function as the primary technical authority for Replit’s autonomous and AI agent security blueprint. In this critical role, you will design, implement, and maintain the runtime defense systems, guardrail frameworks, and…
Cyber Operations Lead, Critical Harm Operations
2 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$252K – $335K a yearSecurityCritical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for the most severe user-safety risks—including Frontier Risk and Material Harm—that are accurate, fast, defensible, and scalable. The Cyber vertical turns policy into reviewer…
Head of Security
2 months agoVerse Medical · New York, United States +1
HybridFull-timeDirector$270K – $320K a yearSecurityWe're hiring a Head of Security to own our security program. This is a high-ownership, hands-on role: you'll be responsible for identifying the highest leverage ways to improve the company’s security posture and then build and personally execute that roadmap. You'll run the…
Security Engineer, Corporate Security
2 months agoFlexport · San Francisco, California, United States
Mid level$165.4K – $202.1K a yearSecurityIdentity & access; Advance our identity posture: SSO coverage, phishing-resistant MFA rollout, SCIM lifecycle automation, and least-privilege access across the SaaS and cloud estate.; Build the detections and guardrails that catch account takeover, MFA fatigue attacks, and…
Valon Tech · New York, United States +1
RemoteFull-timeSenior$180K – $230K a yearSecurityValon is the leading AI platform for mortgage servicing, building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance.
Staff+ Software Engineer, Security
2 months agoVerkada · San Mateo, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staff$200K – $300K a yearSecurityThe Verkada Security Team is a software engineering team at its core- we build the right way to do software security. In this role, you will scale Verkada’s security in the SDLC through automation, libraries, tools and frameworks. The role’s broad scope means you will be…
Rocket Lab Corporation · Long Beach, California, United States
Full-timeDirector$187K – $280K a yearSecurityRocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible…
Staff Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 months agoRidgeline · Reno, Nevada, United States +1
Lead / staff$138K – $173K a yearSecurityAs a Staff Identity and Access Management Engineer, you will play a crucial role in refining our organization's approach to managing user access and permissions. You'll be responsible for creating a comprehensive inventory of accounts and permissions across our tools, all while…
California State University · San Diego, California, United States
Full-timeFrom $5,797.00 a monthSecuritySan Diego State University is seeking a highly organized and technically skilled Access Control and Security Specialist to oversee electronic access control, CCTV security, and mechanical key operations for university housing. This role provides strategic and technical…
Senior Security Engineer
2 months agoApollo Research · London, England, United Kingdom +1
On-siteFull-timeSenior$214K – $280K a yearSecurityApollo Research works with most frontier AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Thinking Machines and others) to test their models before deployment and collaborate on fundamental scheming research. Our coding agent security product, Watcher, is deployed in production…
AI Security Researcher
2 months agoApollo Research · London, England, United Kingdom +1
On-siteFull-timeSenior$214K – $280K a yearSecurityApollo Research works with most frontier AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Thinking Machines and others) to test their models before deployment and collaborate on fundamental scheming research. Our coding agent security product, Watcher, is deployed in production…
Protective Services Associate
2 months agoDoorDash USA · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeEntry level$80.2K – $118K a yearSecurityThe Global Safety and Security team advances DoorDash by protecting people, property, operations, brand, and reputation. Within that team, Protective Services safeguards executives and residences through executive protection, intelligence collection, threat monitoring,…
Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security
2 months agoAnthropic · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteManager$485K – $625K a yearSecurityPlatform Security Engineering (PSE) sits within Data Center Security Engineering (DCSE). As Anthropic expands beyond traditional cloud providers into owned facilities, colocation, and partner sites, we take on the security responsibilities that cloud providers used to abstract…
Senior Network Security Engineer
2 months agoMuon Space · San Jose, California, United States
On-siteSenior$193K – $218K a yearSecurityMuon seeks a Senior Network Security Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate is a seasoned network security professional who will design, secure, and operate the networks and cloud environments that power our fast-growing company. In this role you will own network…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.