Principal Security Engineer Salaries in California

15+ years in software engineering, security engineering, identity, distributed systems, or related areas, including significant hands-on technical leadership.

$240,000 - $379,500 a year

Contribute to technical requirements, architecture, and interface design documents. Extensive experience creating, presenting, and refining clear, compelling…

$295,500 - $375,100 a year

Drive systemic root cause analysis and partner with principal architects and engineering leaders to develop long-term remediations that eliminate entire classes…

$167,600 - $271,150 a year

8 days ago

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not…

$142,800 - $304,200 a year

13 days ago

Reporting to the senior Director of engineering, this technical leader architects and builds innovative solutions, mentors junior engineers, clearly…

$195,000 - $210,000 a year

This role spans the full Security Development Lifecycle, from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, testing, and certification.

$161,000 - $318,000 a year