This role pays more than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$151,475–$208,800
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$200k
versus about
$180k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Zip
Zip Co is a global buy-now, pay-later company offering flexible installment payment solutions to consumers and merchants, enabling interest-free purchases across retail, travel, and healthcare. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending
Zip currently has
19 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$165,000–$210,000
across 18 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Security Engineer on the Security team, you will protect the confidentiality and integrity of customer data by securing the cloud infrastructure supporting the enterprise procurement platform. You will be responsible for hardening the AWS environment, building foundational security guardrails, and managing core services including IAM, VPC networking, and KMS. Your daily work involves creating golden images, managing patch programs across EC2 and Kubernetes nodes, and codifying security into infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines. You will also lead initiatives in workload identity, secrets management, and vulnerability management while performing threat models and architecture reviews. To succeed, you must be proficient in Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS. This role addresses the technical challenge of securing a rapidly growing cloud footprint while balancing security requirements with business needs for new product features.
What does a Security Engineer earn in California?
Median $196000 from 31 postings across 16 companies.