Ashney Market Intelligence · Market report · 31 August 2026 Weekly

Security Engineer

in the United States

Who is hiring, how senior the roles are, and how fast they fill.

The read

Posting is up 35% from the month before, at 1,030 new roles. The median role is filled within 25 days.

01 — The numbers

By the numbers

2,339Open roles
1,030 ↑35% vs prior Posted / 30 days
25Median days open
15%Explicitly remote
02 — Who is hiring

The companies with the most open roles

These 2,339 roles are spread across 1,031 companies. The eight below post the most; together they are 9% of the total, so hiring here is fragmented, no single employer dominates. The rest sit at hundreds of companies with a handful of openings each.

Top 8 of 1,031 companies hiring
35
29
29
27
25
22
22
21
GDITLive NationMicrosoftNGCCaciAndurilAnthropicBrightvisiontechnologies
03 — Seniority

Where these roles sit on the ladder

By title, across the 2,339 open roles. Seniority is inferred from the job title, so read it as a shape, not a precise count.

Principal 22%Lead 6%Senior 23%Mid / unspecified 47%Junior 2%
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How we count

Ashney reads companies' own applicant-tracking systems directly, hourly, not job boards. These counts are for Security Engineer roles in the United States, deduplicated across reposts and staffing-agency listings. Seniority is inferred from the job title. This report refreshes weekly; the Ashney app scores new roles for members hourly. Figures as of 31 August 2026.

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