Security Jobs in United States
There are 35,878 open Security jobs in United States on freehire right now. 7,920 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are cloud, cybersecurity and ai.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | year | $138,600 | $170,000 | $205,000 | 2,589 |
| USD | hour | $19 | $24 | $36 | 216 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- cloud 22%
- cybersecurity 22%
- ai 15%
- automation 12%
- typescript 11%
- aws 10%
- python 9%
- azure 8%
How the work is done
- Onsite 2,530 · 7%
- Remote 2,263 · 6%
- Hybrid 1,997 · 6%
Visa sponsorship offered in 24% of the 4,090 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 6,083
- Lead 1,829
- Principal 918
- Middle 763
- Junior 641
- Staff 599
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 5,540
- 501-1000 employees 1,653
- 51-200 employees 428
- 11-50 employees 268
- 201-500 employees 64
- 1-10 employees 54
Cybersecurity Engineer
Cybersecurity Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise cybersecurity infrastructure—including firewalls, SIEM, EDR/XDR, and vulnerability management—protecting DoD mission-critical systems.
Senior Security Engineering Manager, Enterprise Security
Leads a team that builds and matures security programs across enterprise security, security operations, and detection engineering to protect corporate systems, cloud environments, and business applications at an AI-powered lending marketplace.
Physical Security Evaluator
Evaluates physical security at Vultr’s global data centers, documenting vulnerabilities and recommending mitigations to protect infrastructure and personnel.
Physical Security Project Manager
Manages physical security projects for Vultr’s global data centers, coordinating schedules, vendors, inspections, and documentation across builds/upgrades while ensuring compliance with security standards.
Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety & Security
4-month research fellowship building AI safety/security projects with public outputs, mentored by Anthropic researchers using open-source tools and compute budgets.
Information Systems Security Officer Level 1
Protects classified intelligence systems by enforcing security policies, maintaining compliance with NIST RMF, and assisting with certification and accreditation for a government contractor in Fort Meade, MD.
Information Systems Security Engineer Level 1
Designs and secures high-performance computing environments for intelligence missions, ensuring compliance with DoD security standards and mitigating vulnerabilities in systems running Red Hat, CentOS, and SUSE.
Director of Information Security
Leads Fetch’s end-to-end security program: AppSec, incident response, compliance, and AI governance while building a scalable, auditable security framework and managing a security engineering team.
Information System Security Officer
Information System Security Officer supporting cybersecurity compliance for a cloud-hosted federal enterprise digital services platform—monitoring security controls, maintaining documentation, conducting assessments, and collaborating with engineering teams.
Junior Cyber Security Analyst (R-00168)
Support system security assessments of cloud-based, NIST-regulated systems for U.S. Federal Government clients—writing security documentation, tracking remediation, and coordinating security activities within release/change management processes.
Cybersecurity Engineer
Cybersecurity Engineer implementing technical security controls for a cloud-hosted enterprise digital services platform, supporting vulnerability management, incident response, and DevSecOps integration for a military and family support services contractor.