Cloud Security Engineer salary
What cloud security engineers are offered right now, taken from the salary ranges employers print in their own open postings rather than from self-reported surveys. The headline band is for every level together; the tables below separate first jobs from senior seats, remote from on-site, and one employer from another.
Typical means the span from the 25th percentile of range midpoints to the 90th percentile of range tops, every figure taken as a full-time year (an hourly rate times 2,080 hours). A group below needs enough distinct ranges for a figure of its own; where it has fewer, the table says so instead of guessing. The methodology explains how postings are read.
By seniority
Pay at each rung, from intern to manager
Titles are grouped by the level they name. A title with no level word is usually a mid-level seat.
| Level | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| No level in the title | 11 | $150k–$312k/yr | $180k/yr |
| Senior, staff or principal | 20 | $177k–$256k/yr | $185k/yr |
Workplace
Remote against on-site and hybrid
| Workplace | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | 6 | $163k–$303k/yr | $239k/yr |
| On-site or hybrid | 25 | $165k–$241k/yr | $182k/yr |
Kind of employer
Who pays more: vendors, banks, cloud companies or labs
| Employer kind | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software and internet companies | 4 | $167k–$329k/yr | $235k/yr |
| Cloud, data and infrastructure | 7 | $176k–$302k/yr | $204k/yr |
| Security software companies | 14 | $159k–$235k/yr | $183k/yr |
| Security consultancies and managed services | 1 | too few ranges | |
| AI labs | 1 | too few ranges | |
| Finance, payments and crypto | 2 | too few ranges | |
| Defense, aerospace and hardware | 2 | too few ranges |
Employers
Best-paying employers for cloud security engineers
Only employers with enough stated ranges in this specialty for a figure of their own, highest middle first.
| Employer | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illumio | 7 | $169k–$235k/yr | $185k/yr |
| CrowdStrike | 3 | $145k–$212k/yr | $150k/yr |
Open now
The highest salaries stated in open postings
- Security Engineer, Cloud · New York City$270,000-$330,000 per year
- Senior Cloud Security Engineer · San Mateo, CA, United States$251,090-$326,060 per year
- Security Engineer, Cloud · Remote - United States$208,000.00 - $312,000.00 per year
- Senior Staff Linux Security Engineer · Sunnyvale, CA - USup to $250,000 - $300,000 per year
- Cloud Security Architect · United States$174,200 - $293,702.00 per year
- Security Engineer, Cloud · New York, NY (HQ)$211,400-$290,600 per year
- Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security · US-CA-Menlo Park$200,000-$287,500 per year
- Staff Kernel Security Engineer · San Francisco, CA - USup to $215,000 -$260,000 per year
- Senior Security Engineer II, Cloud Security · Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$165,000 to $242,000 per year
- Staff Engineer - Container Security · Sunnyvale, California - HQ$196,000-$235,000 per year
Every cloud security role with a salary, highest first.
Questions
Cloud Security Engineer pay, answered from the postings
What salary do cloud security engineers earn in 2026?
Open postings for cloud security engineers state a typical $154k–$297k/yr, with the middle at $185k/yr. That rests on 29 distinct salary ranges from 21 employers, read 11 Nov 2026. All figures are full-time yearly salaries in US dollars: an hourly, weekly or monthly rate in a posting is multiplied by 2,080, 52 or 12 (40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year).
Do remote cloud security roles pay less?
On today's postings remote roles state a middle of $239k/yr and on-site or hybrid roles $182k/yr, so working remotely costs nothing here: remote seats pay at least as much. Both figures come from 31 open roles that state a salary.
Where do cloud security engineers get the highest offers?
Of the employers with enough stated ranges to compare, Illumio has the highest middle, $185k/yr, followed by CrowdStrike ($150k/yr). The table on this page ranks every employer with a figure of its own.
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