Security Engineer at LiteLLM
San Francisco, CA
$200,000–$230,000
Jul 24, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A security engineering role focused on owning application-level and CI/CD security for an AI gateway platform. Day-to-day work involves hunting and remediating vulnerabilities, hardening the software supply chain, and embedding security practices across development and deployment pipelines. Best suited to someone with hands-on offensive or white-hat security experience, ideally from a startup environment, with a track record of security projects or CTF participation.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 3,450–17,600
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,021 (middle half $99,961–$167,095).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
Location is not specified anywhere in the posting; CBSA and state fields are left blank. The role appears fully remote given the absence of any office or location requirement.
No explicit years-of-experience requirement is stated at the role level.
The posting is notably light on named technologies. The concrete tools/platforms mentioned are limited to CI/CD (as a security domain), GitHub (as a place to showcase projects), and Python/LLMs (from the company description of their product stack) — none of these are stated as hard gates in a requirements section.
Application security, CI/CD security, offensive security, and vulnerability assessment are treated as hard gates based on the 'What We're Looking For' section, which uses firm language ('Strong background', 'Demonstrated experience').
CTF wins are listed as a signal of offensive security aptitude ('Evidence of winning past CTFs') but name no specific platform or tool, so no skill entry was created.
No compensation figures are provided beyond a mention of 'competitive salary and benefits.'
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