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Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$150 - $190/hr

Security Engineering @ Clay We're building a modern security organization from the ground up. We're hiring senior or staff-level security engineers who are strong software engineers first, with deep ...

At Gamma, we believe security engineering must evolve to meet this moment. That means closing patch gaps faster, scanning our own code with the same frontier models an attacker would use, designing ...

Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$266K - $395K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

As a Security Engineer at Lambda, you'll touch many areas across the security program such as building detections, hardening infrastructure, reviewing designs, automating toil, and responding to ...

Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180 - $310/hr

At Gamma, we believe security engineering must evolve to meet this moment. That means closing patch gaps faster, scanning our own code with the same frontier models an attacker would use, designing ...

Security Engineer

San Mateo, CA · On-site

$160 - $210/hr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

As a Security Engineer on Skydio's Security team, you'll build the automation and internal tooling that keep our multi-tenant cloud and corporate environments secure and audit-ready. You'll write ...

Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $330K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

About the Team The Security Engineering team at Decagon protects the platform that powers the most advanced conversational AI agents for enterprise customers across voice, chat, email and SMS. We ...

Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$170 - $210/hr

engineering San Francisco, CA | Hybrid full-time We are seeking a highly skilled Security Engineer to join our Series A team as we scale from early product traction to broader customer adoption. You ...

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Security Engineer

San Mateo, CA · On-site

$160 - $210/hr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

As a Security Engineer on Skydio's Security team, you'll build the automation and internal tooling that keep our multi-tenant cloud and corporate environments secure and audit-ready. You'll write ...

Meta's Cross-Meta Security organization is seeking a distinguished Security Engineer to operate at the highest level of technical leadership across the

Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120 - $160/hr

We're hiring a hands‑on (Senior) Product Security Engineer to design, build, and harden the secure architecture at the core of the product, working as a technical partner to our Core engineering ...

Position Summary As a Security Engineer at HeyGen, you will own the security posture of one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world. You will partner directly with engineering teams to ship ...

Security Engineer

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$181.10 - $318.40/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Retirement

Join our Apple Pay Security Engineering team and help us deliver the safest and best user experience. We work on Payments, Transit, Access, and Identity across hardware, software, and servers. If you ...

Security Engineer

Oakland, CA · On-site

$159 - $201/hr

  • Medical

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  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Reporting to the Manager, Security Engineering, you will be a member of the technical security operations team at the company. Security is one of the main strategic pillars at Everlaw, and we are ...

Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$260K - $300K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

About the Role Security Engineers at Cognition own one of the most interesting security surfaces in the industry. Devin executes arbitrary code on behalf of users across millions of sandboxed ...

Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120 - $150/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

THE ROLE We are seeking an experienced and proactive Security Engineer to help us build, maintain, and continuously improve the security posture of our rapidly growing ML infrastructure platform. As ...

Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

  • Medical

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  • Vision

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  • PTO

As a Security Engineer you will identify and drive impactful projects to improve the security of Figma's product, platform, and IT systems. We are hiring for multiple teams within Security ...

Security Engineer

Yuba City, CA · On-site

$120K - $145K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

The Security Engineer is responsible for implementing and maintaining the Credit Union ... This range includes base salary (or hourly wages) and does not include possible overtime for non ...

Security Engineer

Yuba City, CA

$120K - $145K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

The Security Engineer is responsible for implementing and maintaining the Credit Union ... This range includes base salary (or hourly wages) and does not include possible overtime for non ...

Security Engineer

Yuba City, CA · On-site

$120K - $145K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

The Security Engineer is responsible for implementing and maintaining the Credit Union ... This range includes base salary (or hourly wages) and does not include possible overtime for non ...

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Hourly Security Engineer information

What is the difference between Hourly Security Engineer vs Cybersecurity Analyst?

AspectHourly Security EngineerCybersecurity Analyst
CertificationsCompTIA Security+, CISSP (preferred)CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CEH
Work EnvironmentOn-site or remote security system setup, monitoring, and incident responseAnalyzing security threats, monitoring networks, and developing security protocols
Employer & Industry UsageIT security firms, corporate security teams, government agenciesIT departments, security consulting firms, government agencies

Hourly Security Engineers focus on implementing and maintaining security systems on an hourly basis, often working directly with security infrastructure. Cybersecurity Analysts analyze security data, monitor threats, and develop security strategies. While both roles require similar certifications and work in security environments, their daily tasks differ, with engineers more hands-on and analysts more analytical.

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Security Engineer

Clay

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$150 - $190/hr

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Posted 7 days ago


Job description

Security Engineering @ Clay

We're building a modern security organization from the ground up. We're hiring senior or staff-level security engineers who are strong software engineers first, with deep expertise in either Cloud Security or Application Security and working knowledge across both.

This is a hands‑on role. You'll spend significant time writing production code—security tooling, detection systems, remediation pipelines, and frameworks that make secure defaults the easiest path. You'll also help define how we leverage modern automation, including frontier AI models (e.g. Mythos), to scale security operations: autonomously discovering vulnerabilities, reviewing AI‑generated code, and building detection systems that understand context and intent.

What You'll Do
  • Build security primitives, tooling, and automation that scale with the product and engineering org

  • Define and implement our strategy for modern security workflows: AI‑assisted vulnerability discovery, automated code review, threat detection, and remediation

  • Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product Engineering to make secure defaults the easiest path

  • Own projects end to end: design, implementation, rollout, and measurement

Cloud Security
  • Secure our cloud environment (IAM, network policies, container security, secrets management, and misconfiguration prevention).

  • Define and enforce least‑privilege access patterns across services and humans.

  • Improve cloud visibility and control using infrastructure‑as‑code and cloud security tooling (we currently use Terraform, AWS Config, and AWS Security Hub).

  • Develop preventative controls and safe deployment patterns that reduce the probability and blast radius of incidents.

Application Security
  • Lead secure design and secure coding practices, and prevent common vulnerability classes.

  • Perform architecture reviews and code‑level security reviews, and work hands‑on with engineers to ship fixes.

  • Own the vulnerability discovery and validation lifecycle: static and dynamic analysis, dependency checks, pen tests, and bug bounties. Integrate modern automated detection systems (including Claude Mythos‑class models) to find vulnerabilities at scale.

  • Build and deploy security agents and automated workflows that can scan codebases, propose fixes, and in some cases autonomously deploy security patches.

  • Build frameworks and reusable components for authentication, authorization, and secure‑by‑default patterns.

  • Define practical policies and controls for code generation tools and coding agent changes, so they can be used safely and consistently.

What You'll Bring
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems

  • Deep expertise in either cloud security or application security, with the ability to flex into the adjacent domain

  • Ability to build, not just advise: You translate risk into concrete engineering work and ship solutions

  • Comfort with ambiguity: You thrive when building from first principles and defining what good looks like

  • Forward‑thinking about tooling: Interest in leveraging modern automation and AI to scale security operations while maintaining engineering rigor

Out of Scope

This is not an IT helpdesk or general operations role. We partner with other teams and vendors for routine operational work so you can stay focused on building scalable security foundations.

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