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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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741–760 of 964 jobs
Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response
4 months agoVercel · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridSenior$208K – $312K a yearSecurityWe are looking for a Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response, to build the telemetry, logging, and response systems for our Detection & Response team. This is a builder role, not a queue-triage role. You will build detection and response as software across a…
Security Engineer
4 months agoLENS Inc. · Los Angeles, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSecurityAs a Security Engineer at LENS, you seek transformational change. You do not accept the status quo that accidents are an accepted inevitability, or that they just happen. Instead, you believe when the root cause of an accident can be known in advance, the accident can and…
Nscale · New York, United States +2
Senior$160K – $190K a yearSecurityWe are hiring Detection & Response Engineers to decide what we detect, command the response when something is real, and automate everything in between, across enterprise, cloud, production, data centre, and operational technology environments.
Software Engineer, Codex Cyber
4 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-time$266K – $445K a yearSecurityCodex is OpenAI's software engineering agent. Codex Security extends that work into one of the most important product areas in AI: helping organizations find, validate, prioritize, and fix real vulnerabilities in the software they build and depend on.
Principal Security Field Engineer
4 months agoDatabricks · California, United States
RemoteLead / staff$270.3K – $371.7K a yearSecurityWhile candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other US locations will be considered.
Marksman Security LLC · San Ramon, California, United States
Part-timeFrom $24.00 an hourSecurityMaintain site access control and visitor logs.; Monitor entry points, verify credentials, and manage visitor check‑ins.; Maintain a professional presence while enforcing corporate security policies.; Conduct patrols and safety checks.; Respond to alarms, emergencies, and…
Software Engineer - AI Security Product
4 months agoObsidian Security · Palo Alto, California, United States
Entry level$155K – $180K a yearSecurityAI is the fastest-moving attack surface in the enterprise. Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini, Claude, and a wave of agentic tools are being wired into corporate SaaS faster than security teams can keep up — with broad OAuth scopes, opaque data flows, and non-human identities…
Software Engineer - Security
4 months agoVast.ai · Los Angeles, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$165K – $260K a yearSecurityWe are seeking a skilled Security Engineer to join our dynamic team. We hire people with broad skill sets who also exhibit deep expertise. The ideal candidate will have experience in both offensive and defensive security, strong software development skills, and deep knowledge…
GRC Analyst
4 months agoVercel · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridMid level$134K – $202K a yearSecurityWe are looking for a Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Analyst who wants to build GRC with AI, and you do not need to be an engineer to do it. We encourage and equip you to use AI tooling to build automations for audit evidence and customer security questionnaires,…
Lead Incident Responder
4 months agoFluidstack · San Francisco, California, United States +4
RemoteFull-timeLead / staff$172K – $258K a yearSecurityYou're securing the frontier of AI. The model weights training on our infrastructure are the most valuable and most targeted artifacts in technology, and we're standing up the compute to hold them faster than anyone ever has. A breach isn't a leak, it's the frontier walking out…
KlearNow.ai · California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$140K – $165K a yearSecurityOwn the design and governance of CI/CD pipelines — including automated testing, SAST/DAST scanning, dependency checks, and secrets detection. Lead infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration practices, and drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort and…
Lead Security & Infrastructure Engineer
4 months agoNewLimit · South San Francisco, California, United States
Lead / staff$160K – $220K a yearSecurityWe're hiring our first dedicated IT lead to own the systems, infrastructure, and security that keep NewLimit running as we grow from to more than 100 people over the next two years. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with broad ownership: you’ll set technical…
Gavin de Becker & Associates · Palo Alto, California, United States
Full-time$185K – $225K a yearSecurityThreat and risk assessment: Continuously evaluating potential threats and vulnerabilities to develop mitigation strategies.; Advance planning: Conducting reconnaissance of locations, planning secure travel routes, and preparing emergency plans before the client arrives.; Close…
Security Engineer
4 months agoNooks · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-time$200K – $315K a yearSecurityNooks is the Agent Workspace for Sales, where reps and AI agents execute and decide next moves together across 1M+ interactions per day. As our second security engineer, you'll help secure a fast-growing, AI-native platform and the customer data that flows through it — across a…
Senior Product Security Engineer
4 months agoAirwallex · San Francisco, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeSenior$160K – $250K a yearSecurityAirwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry,…
Engineering Manager, Enterprise Security
4 months agoRoblox · San Mateo, California, United States
HybridFull-timeManager$293.8K – $343.3K a yearSecurityEvery day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
Senior Platform Engineer, Security
4 months agoDoxel · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeSenior$175K – $220K a yearSecurityAs a Senior Platform Engineer, with an emphasis on Security, your main mission is to build out Doxel's internal platform and define the golden paths that engineers rely on, replacing today's hand-rolled infra. Own cloud security posture on GCP, bake security into CI/CD and the…
Security Engineer (Blue Team)
4 months agoSpaceX · Hawthorne, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid level$130K – $155K a yearSecurityBuild and improve existing security detection mechanisms and automation frameworks that directly drive what the Security Operations Center detects.; Engage with relevant owners of high-risk systems and services to identify and prioritize detection gaps.; Investigate anomalous…
Head of Security & Compliance
4 months agoCasca · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeDirector$200K – $300K a yearSecurityBuild security tooling & processes that engineers actually use. Create internal mechanisms for appsec, identity and access management, and threat detection that naturally integrate into how the team ships.; Manage, mentor, and grow our team of application security engineers.…
Product Security Engineer
4 months agoVercel · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridSenior$208K – $312K a yearSecurityWe are looking for a Product Security Engineer to build the systems that triage and validate bug bounty and other externally reported security findings, not to work the queue. This role suits a software engineer moving into security or a security engineer with a strong…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.