Security Engineer jobs in California

Assort Health

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $160,000 – $185,000 · Remote

This role builds detection and incident response capabilities for a rapidly growing healthcare AI company, suitable for someone with 2–4 years of security experience who wants hands-on ownership of monitoring, triage, and automation in a startup environment.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $240,000

A security-focused role building detection systems and leading incident response across Anyscale's cloud and production environments. This suits experienced security engineers who can design detection pipelines, own incident coordination, and partner with infrastructure teams to close security gaps.

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Sentry

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $155,000 – $400,000 · Remote

This role combines detection engineering, incident response, and identity management to protect Sentry's platform and customers. It suits someone who enjoys cross-functional security work, thrives with autonomy on a small team, and reaches for automation and systematic solutions rather than reactive firefighting.

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Front

Contract · San Francisco, CA · $187,000 – $250,000

This contract-to-hire role builds and runs the internal platform that powers Front's AI agents and automation tools for their GTM teams. You'll define standards, own infrastructure, secure the estate, and keep engineers unblocked as the company scales its internal systems across Salesforce, Snowflake, and AI tooling.

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Cognition AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $260,000 – $300,000

This role secures AI-powered developer tools that execute untrusted code and handle sensitive credentials at scale. It suits security engineers who want hands-on work across product, infrastructure, and detection systems while helping define security practices for a new category of AI-native applications.

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Labelbox

Internship · San Francisco, CA · $40 – $55

Security Engineering Intern role at Labelbox involves hands-on work across vulnerability management, cloud security, access controls, and security operations. This position suits students pursuing cybersecurity or computer science degrees who want practical experience in modern security practices while receiving direct mentorship from an active security team.

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Sigma Computing

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $175,000 – $220,000

A hands-on engineering role building security infrastructure from scratch for a cloud-native SaaS platform, with heavy emphasis on AI security and automation. Ideal for someone who wants to solve complex security problems across multiple domains using code and modern tooling rather than relying primarily on commercial products.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $130,000 – $215,000

This role bridges software engineering and security at a satellite communications company, requiring someone who can write secure code while also reviewing others' work for vulnerabilities and guiding teams on security practices. It suits engineers with software development experience who want to deepen their security expertise and influence security standards across an organization.

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Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $155,000 – $400,000 · Remote

This role pairs application and platform security work with the chance to shape secure development practices across a fast-growing engineering organization. It suits security practitioners who enjoy cross-functional influence, hands-on vulnerability work, and building scalable solutions to security problems in a developer-focused culture.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $210,000

This role partners engineering on building security into a distributed computing platform, owning everything from threat modeling and secure design review through vulnerability tracking and resolution. It suits someone with deep product security experience at high-growth companies who can scale security practices without slowing engineering.

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Sigma Computing

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $175,000 – $220,000

A senior-level security engineering role focused on building and maintaining data protection platforms across cloud, SaaS, and endpoint environments. This position suits experienced security engineers who prefer hands-on architecture and automation over purely tool-based approaches, with a particular emphasis on modern data platforms and AI-driven security solutions.

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Assort Health

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $190,000 – $225,000 · Remote

Assort Health is hiring a Security Engineer to build cloud and product security programs as the company scales from a $1.2B healthcare AI startup. This role suits mid-career security professionals who want hands-on ownership of infrastructure hardening, code review, and detection systems in a fast-moving environment.

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