IAM Engineer salary
What identity and access management 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 | 9 | $149k–$288k/yr | $191k/yr |
| Senior, staff or principal | 43 | $193k–$304k/yr | $222k/yr |
| Lead or manager | 6 | $230k–$357k/yr | $246k/yr |
Workplace
Remote against on-site and hybrid
| Workplace | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | 16 | $183k–$302k/yr | $208k/yr |
| On-site or hybrid | 42 | $192k–$308k/yr | $228k/yr |
Kind of employer
Who pays more: vendors, banks, cloud companies or labs
| Employer kind | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software and internet companies | 14 | $227k–$330k/yr | $251k/yr |
| Cloud, data and infrastructure | 23 | $190k–$312k/yr | $226k/yr |
| Finance, payments and crypto | 7 | $159k–$299k/yr | $208k/yr |
| Security software companies | 8 | $158k–$282k/yr | $199k/yr |
| Security consultancies and managed services | 2 | too few ranges | |
| AI labs | 2 | too few ranges | |
| Defense, aerospace and hardware | 2 | too few ranges |
Employers
Best-paying employers for identity and access management 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Databricks | 5 | $226k–$307k/yr | $233k/yr |
| Palo Alto Networks | 3 | $211k–$283k/yr | $230k/yr |
Open now
The highest salaries stated in open postings
- Director, Customer Identity and Access Management · New York$230,000-$400,000 per year
- Principal Security Software Engineer, IAM · San Mateo, CA, United States$326,060-$385,050 per year
- Staff Security Software Engineer, IAM · San Francisco$231,000-$340,000 per year
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - IAM · Mountain View, California$232,000-$313,000 per year
- Security Software Engineer, IAM · Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City$208,000 - $312,000 per year
- Senior Security Software Engineer, IAM · San Mateo, CA, United States$251,090-$306,730 per year
- Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management · Remote - United States$217,000-$303,900 per year
- Senior Manager, Engineering - Identity & Access Management · United States$250,000-$300,000 per year
- Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management · New York, New York, United States$240,000 - $300,000 per year
- Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management Platform · San Mateo, CA United States$200,000-$300,000 per year
Every identity and access role with a salary, highest first.
Questions
IAM Engineer pay, answered from the postings
What salary do identity and access management engineers earn in 2026?
Open postings for identity and access management engineers state a typical $192k–$306k/yr, with the middle at $225k/yr. That rests on 54 distinct salary ranges from 40 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 identity and access roles pay less?
On today's postings remote roles state a middle of $208k/yr and on-site or hybrid roles $228k/yr, so on-site and hybrid seats pay more in the middle of the range. Both figures come from 58 open roles that state a salary.
Where do identity and access management engineers get the highest offers?
Of the employers with enough stated ranges to compare, Databricks has the highest middle, $233k/yr, followed by Palo Alto Networks ($230k/yr). The table on this page ranks every employer with a figure of its own.
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