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Security Operations & Incident Response

$145k–$314k/yrtypical paylive median $177k/yr offer it

Computed from 128 different pay ranges employers posted, by 68 employers, each counted as a year's pay (an hourly rate times 2,080 hours). 180 of the 310 open roles in this set give no salary.

Live SecOps & IR roles

Read 11 Nov 2026, 15:57 UTC

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Watch an organization's alerts around the clock and act on what is real: triage in the SIEM and EDR consoles, investigate suspicious logins and processes, hunt for attackers who slipped past the controls, contain incidents and write up what happened. Titles include SOC analyst (tiers 1 to 3), detection and response engineer, incident responder, DFIR analyst and threat hunter. The most common way into the field.

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In short

Security Operations & Incident Response. Watch an organization's alerts around the clock and act on what is real: triage in the SIEM and EDR consoles, investigate suspicious logins and processes, hunt for attackers who slipped past the controls, contain incidents and write up what happened. Its postings usually state $145k–$314k/yr, and the middle salary today is $177k/yr. have posted it, for example Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab, OpenAI.

Who recruits for SecOps & IR

EmployerOpeningsSalary in this specialty
Anthropic logoAnthropic4$340k–$405k/yr
Thinking Machines Lab logoThinking Machines Lab1Not stated in its postings
OpenAI logoOpenAI1Stated per posting
Roblox logoRoblox2Stated per posting
Block logoBlock1Stated per posting
Serval logoServal1Stated per posting
Vercel logoVercel1Stated per posting
Ripple logoRipple1Stated per posting
Apollo.io logoApollo.io1Stated per posting
Cohere logoCohere1Stated per posting
Lila Sciences logoLila Sciences1Stated per posting
DoorDash logoDoorDash2Stated per posting
Figure AI logoFigure AI1Stated per posting
Snowflake logoSnowflake1Stated per posting
Brain Co. logoBrain Co.1Not stated in its postings
Veeam logoVeeam2Stated per posting
Pinterest logoPinterest3$214k–$356k/yr
Databricks logoDatabricks2Stated per posting
Liftoff logoLiftoff1Stated per posting
Brex logoBrex2Stated per posting
Notion logoNotion2Not stated in its postings
fal logofal1Stated per posting
Tanium logoTanium1Stated per posting
Legora logoLegora1Stated per posting
Censys logoCensys1Stated per posting
CoreWeave logoCoreWeave4$157k–$265k/yr
Robinhood logoRobinhood1Stated per posting
Huntress logoHuntress11$186k–$240k/yr
Anduril Industries logoAnduril Industries2Stated per posting
Pure Storage logoPure Storage3Stated per posting
Airbnb logoAirbnb1Stated per posting
Forus logoForus1Stated per posting
Second Front logoSecond Front1Stated per posting
Proofpoint logoProofpoint1Not stated in its postings
BitGo logoBitGo1Stated per posting
Zscaler logoZscaler6Stated per posting
Headway logoHeadway1Stated per posting
Palo Alto Networks logoPalo Alto Networks20$184k–$262k/yr
Wiz logoWiz4Stated per posting
Nscale logoNscale2Stated per posting
Fastly logoFastly3Stated per posting
Writer logoWriter2Stated per posting
Arctic Wolf logoArctic Wolf3Not stated in its postings
Abnormal Security logoAbnormal Security0Stated per posting
Ridgeline logoRidgeline1Stated per posting
Anaplan logoAnaplan1Stated per posting
SentinelOne logoSentinelOne6Stated per posting
Stripe logoStripe2Stated per posting
Flexport logoFlexport3Stated per posting
Agoda logoAgoda2Not stated in its postings
Aidoc logoAidoc1Not stated in its postings
Asana logoAsana1Stated per posting
BeyondTrust logoBeyondTrust1Not stated in its postings
Bitdefender logoBitdefender4Not stated in its postings
BJAK logoBJAK1Not stated in its postings
Canonical logoCanonical2Not stated in its postings
Cato Networks logoCato Networks2Not stated in its postings
Check Point logoCheck Point2Not stated in its postings
Checkout.com logoCheckout.com2Not stated in its postings
ClickHouse logoClickHouse1Stated per posting
Coupa logoCoupa1Not stated in its postings
Cyderes logoCyderes1Not stated in its postings
DataDome logoDataDome1Not stated in its postings
Deliveroo logoDeliveroo1Not stated in its postings
ESET logoESET5Not stated in its postings
Eye Security logoEye Security3Not stated in its postings
Island logoIsland1Not stated in its postings
Marqeta logoMarqeta1Not stated in its postings
OKX logoOKX1Not stated in its postings
OpenLoop Health logoOpenLoop Health1Not stated in its postings
Pico logoPico1Not stated in its postings
Salesloft logoSalesloft1Not stated in its postings
Saviynt logoSaviynt2Stated per posting
Sezzle logoSezzle1Not stated in its postings
Solidgate logoSolidgate1Not stated in its postings
Talkdesk logoTalkdesk1Not stated in its postings
TENEX.AI logoTENEX.AI2Not stated in its postings
Thales logoThales8Not stated in its postings
Tide logoTide1Not stated in its postings
Tines logoTines1Not stated in its postings
Wrike logoWrike2Not stated in its postings
Trend Micro logoTrend Micro4Not stated in its postings
Trace3 logoTrace31Stated per posting
GuidePoint Security logoGuidePoint Security7Not stated in its postings
Nebius logoNebius8Stated per posting
ClickUp logoClickUp1Stated per posting
Coupang logoCoupang4Not stated in its postings
Axon logoAxon3Stated per posting
Mozilla logoMozilla1Stated per posting
Two Six Technologies logoTwo Six Technologies1Stated per posting
Trellix logoTrellix2Stated per posting
Samsara logoSamsara6$129k–$235k/yr
Qualtrics logoQualtrics3Stated per posting
Sentry logoSentry2Stated per posting
Klaviyo logoKlaviyo2Stated per posting
Darktrace logoDarktrace2Stated per posting
Gong logoGong1Stated per posting
Sophos logoSophos8Not stated in its postings
Elastic logoElastic4Stated per posting
Box logoBox0Stated per posting
Apex logoApex1Stated per posting
CLEAR logoCLEAR2Stated per posting
Dragos logoDragos4Not stated in its postings
Gen Digital logoGen Digital1Stated per posting
Flexential logoFlexential2Stated per posting
KnowBe4 logoKnowBe42Stated per posting
Twilio logoTwilio2Stated per posting
AlphaSense logoAlphaSense1Stated per posting
Coalition logoCoalition2Not stated in its postings
Palantir logoPalantir1Stated per posting
CrowdStrike logoCrowdStrike28$148k–$235k/yr
Cribl logoCribl1Stated per posting
SpaceX logoSpaceX8$105k–$198k/yr
7AI logo7AI3Stated per posting
WHOOP logoWHOOP3$120k–$170k/yr
Geotab logoGeotab1Not stated in its postings
iCapital logoiCapital1Stated per posting
1Password logo1Password1Not stated in its postings
Appian logoAppian1Stated per posting
Tenable logoTenable1Stated per posting
SpecterOps logoSpecterOps1Stated per posting
Saronic Technologies logoSaronic Technologies1Not stated in its postings
Expel logoExpel2Stated per posting
Esri logoEsri1Stated per posting
Rocket Lab logoRocket Lab6$39.5k–$52k/yr

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