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Staff security engineer salary in the San Francisco Bay Area

The median posted base pay for staff security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area is $250K a year, from 84 open jobs at 44 companies. The middle half of the jobs is from $224K to $286K. One job in ten has posted pay above $363K.

Data of . This is posted base pay, not total pay. It does not include stock or a bonus.

Median posted base pay
$250K
Middle half of the jobs
$224K to $286K
10th to 90th percentile
$205K to $363K
Open jobs with posted pay
84
Companies
44

Security engineer pay by level in the San Francisco Bay Area

Posted base pay for security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, by the level in the job title. This page is about the staff level. A level needs 20 or more jobs with posted pay.

  • Level not stated215 jobs$210K$175K to $263K
  • Senior173 jobs$212K$190K to $243K
  • Staff84 jobs$250K$224K to $286K
Each band goes from the 10th to the 90th percentile. The darker part is the middle half of the jobs. The line is the median. This is posted base pay, not total pay.
Pay bands by level, security engineering, Bay Area. Posted base pay in US dollars for each year.
Level10th25thMedian75th90thJobs with pay
Level not stated$147K$175K$210K$263K$312K215
Senior$170K$190K$212K$243K$278K173
Staff$205K$224K$250K$286K$363K84

Top-paying companies for staff security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area

The companies with the highest median posted base pay for staff security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area. A company name opens its levels in the pay explorer.

  1. 1Anthropic$403K6 jobs
  2. 2Verkada$250K6 jobs
  3. 3Nscale$210K5 jobs
The median posted base pay of each company for staff security engineering jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area. We use the middle point of each posted range. A company needs 5 or more jobs with posted pay. This is posted base pay, not total pay.

Open jobs

Other levels in the San Francisco Bay Area

Other places

Other job types in the San Francisco Bay Area

How we compute these numbers

We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.

We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A role page needs 20 or more open jobs with posted pay. In the bar chart, a company needs 5 or more jobs with posted pay.

The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.