What is the average Cloud Security Engineer salary?

$182K a year on average and $182K at the median, across 83 open Cloud Security Engineer postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.

What is the typical range?

The middle half of the postings offer $153K to $211K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.

Which companies advertise the highest Cloud Security Engineer pay?

Illumio ($185K), Accenture Federal Services ($156K), Dark Wolf Solutions ($155K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).

Is a cloud security engineer a high-paying job?

The median Cloud Security Engineer posting advertises $182K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 5% above the middle of the market.

How much can you earn as a cloud security engineer?

A tenth of the postings offer $230K a year or more; the highest open Cloud Security Engineer role advertises up to $326K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.

What is the Cloud Security Engineer salary per hour and per month?

The median of $182K a year is about $88 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,208 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $74 to $101 an hour.

Which skills pay more for Cloud Security Engineer roles?

Postings that ask for Threat modeling (+$56K, 8 postings), TypeScript (+$26K, 8 postings), Vulnerability management (+$24K, 16 postings) advertise more than the $182K median of all Cloud Security Engineer postings with pay.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.

Cloud Security Engineer Salary: $182K Average, $182K Median

Cloud Security Engineer salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $205K, 11% more than senior roles ($185K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

Level	Median salary	Middle half	Roles
Senior	$185K	$168K–$212K	27
Lead and above	$205K	$178K–$216K	19
No level in the title	$155K	$145K–$185K	36

Cloud Security Engineer salary by location

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area	$206K	20
🇺🇸California	$185K	27
🇺🇸United States	$185K	76

Skills that pay more for Cloud Security Engineer roles

Skill	Median with it	Above the median	Postings
Threat modeling	$238K	+$56K	8
TypeScript	$208K	+$26K	8
Vulnerability management	$206K	+$24K	16
IAM	$206K	+$23K	22
NIST	$205K	+$22K	8

Top-paying companies

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
Illumio	$185K	9
Accenture Federal Services	$156K	13
Dark Wolf Solutions	$155K	8

Highest-paying open Cloud Security Engineer roles

All cloud security engineer jobs

Senior Cloud Security EngineerRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$251K - $326KSeniorGoPythonC#5mo
Cloud Security LeadReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $325KHybridLead and abovePythonTerraformGCP5w
Staff Platform Product Manager, Platform & Cloud SecurityRubrik · 🇺🇸Remote - Washington DC$190K - $317KRemoteLead and aboveKubernetesCISSPCCSK11mo
Staff Engineer, Cloud SecurityToast · 🇺🇸Remote, US$151K - $309KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform3w
Security Engineer – DevSecOps and Security ArchitectPhysicsX · 🇺🇸New York, New York$200K - $300KGoPythonCI/CD9mo
Cloud Security EngineerHex · 🇺🇸Remote - US$199K - $295KRemotePythonTypeScriptReact9mo
Software Engineer, Security, CloudRamp · 🇺🇸New York, NY (HQ)$211K - $291KHybridPythonTerraformGCP7mo
AWS Security Architect, GovCloud / IL5Swarmaero · D.C.$200K - $290KRemoteAWSIncident responseIAM6w
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud SecuritySnowflake · 🇺🇸US-CA-Menlo Park$200K - $288KHybridSeniorGoPythonJava2mo
Senior/Staff DevSecOps EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$159K - $263KLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript6w
Senior/Staff DevSecOps EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸New York, NY$159K - $263KLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript6w
Senior Cloud Security EngineerScopely · 🇺🇸US - Bellevue, United States$170K - $253KSeniorGoPythonJava9mo
Mid-Level DevSecOps EngineerGRVTY · 🇺🇸Herndon, Virginia, United States$150K - $250KGoPythonJava6w
Senior DevSecOps EngineerAshby · 🇺🇸Remote - US$178K - $250KRemoteSeniorGoPythonTypeScript2d
Infrastructure Engineer, Agentic DevSecOpsDistyl · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $250KHybridPythonJavaScriptGCP4w
Cloud Security EngineerAccenture Federal Services · 🇺🇸Chantilly, VA$124K - $246KGCPAzureCI/CD6d
Senior Cloud Security EngineerAccenture Federal Services · 🇺🇸Charlottesville, VA; Springfield, VA$124K - $246KSeniorPythonAzureLinux10d
Senior Security Engineer II, Cloud SecurityCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$165K - $242KSeniorGoPythonTerraform5mo
Senior DevSecOps EngineerJustworks · 🇺🇸New York, New York$188K - $242KSeniorGoPythonRuby5w
Senior Cloud Security EngineerAnyscale · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $240KSeniorGCPAzureMachine Learning12d

Questions about Cloud Security Engineer pay

What is the average Cloud Security Engineer salary?: $182K a year on average and $182K at the median, across 83 open Cloud Security Engineer postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
What is the typical range?: The middle half of the postings offer $153K to $211K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest Cloud Security Engineer pay?: Illumio ($185K), Accenture Federal Services ($156K), Dark Wolf Solutions ($155K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a cloud security engineer a high-paying job?: The median Cloud Security Engineer posting advertises $182K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 5% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a cloud security engineer?: A tenth of the postings offer $230K a year or more; the highest open Cloud Security Engineer role advertises up to $326K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the Cloud Security Engineer salary per hour and per month?: The median of $182K a year is about $88 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,208 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $74 to $101 an hour.
Which skills pay more for Cloud Security Engineer roles?: Postings that ask for Threat modeling (+$56K, 8 postings), TypeScript (+$26K, 8 postings), Vulnerability management (+$24K, 16 postings) advertise more than the $182K median of all Cloud Security Engineer postings with pay.
Where do these figures come from?: From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.

Cloud Security Engineer salary: $182K median