Security Engineer II at Mapbox
Washington, DC
$161,500–$218,500from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Washington, DC
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior security engineering role focused on cloud and application security within a platform serving millions of developers. Day-to-day work involves reviewing AWS environments for security gaps, building and maintaining threat detection and scanning systems, assessing risks from new vendor integrations and product launches, and collaborating with development teams to embed secure design practices early in the build process. Suited to engineers with 5+ years in product or application security and hands-on AWS experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 2,350–8,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (4)
The role sits at the intersection of security analysis (threat detection, risk assessments, cloud security reviews, bug bounty) and software engineering (building scanning/detection tools, custom security bots, secure-by-default automation). 15-1212 Information Security Analysts is the primary classification because security analysis and review is the dominant day-to-day work, but 15-1252 Software Developers is a genuine runner-up given the significant tool-building component.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or similar' but does not explicitly exclude equivalent experience, so the degree requirement is set to None (not a hard gate).
The compensation range of $161,500–$218,500/year is stated as applicable to 'most US locations,' with a 5–10% premium for higher cost-of-labor US locations. No single metro is specified; the role is tagged #LI-Remote.
The AWS services listed (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, S3, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS) all appear in the requirements section and are captured as individual required skills. The programming language requirement names Python, JavaScript, Node.js, and TypeScript as interchangeable options; Python is listed as the primary with the others as alternatives.
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