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Fly.io
About Fly.io
Fly.io operates a public cloud on bare-metal servers it owns in data centers around the world. Customers hand over containers, and Fly.io runs each one as a hardware-isolated micro-VM with its own kernel, a growing share of them AI agents and inference workloads. Of its two posted jobs, one is a Platform Security Engineer. No country is attached to the remote listing.
From its own postings
, CyberJobs.cc shows 1 security opening at Fly.io.
Fly.io security openings
Read 12 Nov 2026, 22:26 UTCComparable openings elsewhere
The same specialty at other employers.
Application Security Engineer – CVE & Vulnerability Research (shows the role here)
Anyone AI · Offensive Security · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$65/hr
Backend Security Engineer (shows the role here)
micro1 · Security Engineering · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$30–$100/hr- $40–$80/hr
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- $180,000–$225,000/yr
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Responsible AI / Security Specialist (shows the role here)
Mercor · Offensive Security · Remote· 3d agoDetails
$90–$140/hr
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Working at Fly.io
A Y Combinator company from the winter 2020 batch, Fly.io was started in 2017 by Kurt Mackey, Jerome Gravel-Niquet and Michael Dwan; it is privately held and based in Chicago. Its security postings state Stated per posting (from its own postings).
1 security role open at the last read1 open role at Fly.io, confirmed on its careers system 12 Nov 2026.
Remote salaried engineering job with no country limit stated.
Fly.io lists the platform security engineer as remote without limiting it to any country.
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Salaries at Fly.io
From its own postings · as of 2026-11-11Recorded salary note, from its own postings, dated 2026-11-11
Fly.io states $180,000 to $225,000 a year for this role (12 Nov 2026).
1 of its 1 open roles give a salary, not enough to call any figure typical of Fly.io, so the note above stands. By specialty:
| Kind of work | Open roles | Rates stated | Highest rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security Engineering | 1 | $180k–$225k/yr1 rate | $225k/yr |
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Fly.io: common questions
What salary does Fly.io offer security staff?
Stated per posting. Fly.io states $180,000 to $225,000 a year for this role (12 Nov 2026).
What sort of company is Fly.io?
A Y Combinator company from the winter 2020 batch, Fly.io was started in 2017 by Kurt Mackey, Jerome Gravel-Niquet and Michael Dwan; it is privately held and based in Chicago.
What is it like to work in security at Fly.io?
Its security postings state Stated per posting (from its own postings). As a cloud and data company, its security work runs at infrastructure scale, with heavy cloud and identity focus.
What kind of employment are Fly.io's security roles?
Remote salaried engineering job with no country limit stated.
Where are Fly.io's security jobs based?
Fly.io lists the platform security engineer as remote without limiting it to any country.
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