Senior Security Engineer
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This role pays more than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $153,675–$213,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $193k versus about $183k for comparable roles.
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.
Anduril Industries currently has 1697 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $146,000–$194,000 across 1504 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Security Engineer, Identity, you will join the Security Engineering team to build and maintain defensive controls protecting internal systems used to develop advanced defense technology products. You will be responsible for building an identity engine, creating applications to enforce the company's identity framework, and developing integrations across various IdPs, cloud providers, SaaS tools, and internal systems. Your daily work involves automating identity lifecycle operations such as provisioning, access reviews, and offboarding while collaborating on architecture designs. The role requires proficiency in general-purpose languages like Go or Rust, infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or AWS CDK, and knowledge of protocols including SAML, OIDC, SCIM, and OAuth. You will work within cloud platforms using CI/CD pipelines to solve complex identity issues across distributed systems while potentially utilizing RBAC, ABAC, or policy-as-code frameworks.
What does a Security Engineer earn in California?
Median $196000 from 31 postings across 16 companies.
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