Security Engineer Jobs in Seattle, USA

Looking for a security engineer job in Seattle? Choose from 34 open roles at 16 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.

34 Open roles
16 Companies hiring
โ€” Average salary

What do Security engineers in Seattle work on?

The titles on this page span a wide range of specialisations. Some roles focus on cloud infrastructure โ€” for example, the Sr Security Engineer, AWS Infrastructure Security at Amazon centres on identity and access management, network security architecture, and automation at scale across AWS. Others sit closer to the application layer, such as the Senior Application Security Engineer, AI and Machine Learning at Lightning AI, which involves threat modelling, code audits, architecture reviews, and building security tooling for AI and ML platforms. Beyond those two, the sample titles include roles in governance, risk and compliance, identity, network security, product security, and site reliability engineering with a security focus. Several postings carry staff-level expectations, suggesting responsibility for technical direction as well as hands-on engineering. A minority reference healthcare or defence contexts, which typically carry domain-specific compliance obligations not described further in these postings.

Skills and experience employers ask for

Skills counts reflect mentions in descriptions across these postings, not stated requirements, so a skill mentioned once counts alongside one mentioned repeatedly. With a sample of this size the pattern is indicative rather than definitive. Python and AWS appear in well over half the postings, Kubernetes and Azure in roughly a third each, and CI/CD and Terraform in a similar proportion. LLMs, GCP, and C++ are each referenced in about a quarter of postings, hinting at AI-adjacent and systems-level work alongside cloud infrastructure.

Python 65%
AWS 47%
CI/CD 41%
Kubernetes 32%
Azure 32%
LLMs 29%
GCP 29%
Terraform 29%
APIs 29%
Agents 26%
C\+\+ 26%
TypeScript 12%
Java 12%
Evaluation 9%

Security Engineer roles that state a salary

The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels โ€” not an average and not a market rate.

Seattle office, hybrid or remote?

The large majority of postings on this page are listed as onsite in Seattle. A smaller number are designated hybrid, and only one is fully remote. No postings have unknown work-mode information in this set. Candidates who need or prefer flexible arrangements should check individual listings carefully, as hybrid terms โ€” number of required days, which teams set the schedule โ€” are not standardised across employers and are not detailed further in these postings.

Make your application specific to the work

  1. Review the role scope Security engineering here spans infrastructure, application, identity, compliance, and AI-platform domains; identify which specialisation matches your background before applying, as responsibilities differ substantially between postings.
  2. Check seniority and levelling Many postings do not state a seniority level explicitly, while others specify senior, lead, or staff; confirm the expected scope and years of experience in each individual job description before submitting.
  3. Confirm pay and work mode Only one posting in this set advertises a salary range, so for most roles you will need to ask about compensation directly; similarly, verify hybrid or onsite expectations with the employer, as terms are not standardised.
  4. Apply through each employer These postings originate from multiple companies, each with its own application process; follow the link on each job page to the employer's own careers portal or application form.

Questions about Security Engineer jobs in Seattle

Only one posting in this set advertises a pay range: OpenAI lists $266,000โ€“$445,000 for a Security Engineer, Application Security role. The Amazon posting mentions $178,400โ€“$226,700. Most other postings on this page do not state compensation, so those figures should not be treated as representative of all roles here.

The employers represented in these postings include Anthropic, MongoDB, Amazon, Anduril Industries, Lightning AI, Scale AI, Stripe, and Adobe, among others. Anthropic accounts for the largest share of postings in this set.

One posting is listed as fully remote. The majority are onsite, with a smaller number designated hybrid. Work-mode terms for hybrid roles are not described in detail, so you would need to confirm specifics with each employer.

Python and AWS are mentioned in more than half the postings in this set. Kubernetes, Azure, CI/CD, and Terraform each appear in roughly a third or more. LLMs, GCP, C++, and APIs are each mentioned in about a quarter of postings. These are description mentions, not stated requirements.

Several postings reference LLMs and AI-related infrastructure, and at least one role โ€” the Senior Application Security Engineer at Lightning AI โ€” explicitly focuses on securing AI and ML platforms. Not all roles on this page involve AI systems; many are centred on cloud infrastructure, identity, or application security more broadly.

Jobs checked 2 hours ago. ยท Guide reviewed 14 September 2026.