Cyber Security Intern
Labelbox · San Francisco, CA
$83,200–$114,400
Jul 7, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A paid internship on the security engineering team, focused on hands-on work across cloud security, application security, and security operations. Day-to-day tasks include vulnerability triage, access control auditing, SIEM tuning, and helping integrate automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines. The role suits a student pursuing a degree in cybersecurity or a related field who has foundational cloud and database knowledge and wants mentored exposure to real-world enterprise security challenges.
Junior level · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Internship
Pay in the description: $40–$55
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 65 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 40–95
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 $165,879 (middle half $117,529–$206,125). 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 (7)
The compensation is quoted as '$40–$55 USD' with the label 'Annual base salary range' in the posting, but this is an hourly internship per the role description. The figures ($40–$55) are almost certainly an hourly rate, not an annual salary — the posting's own label appears to be a template error. The period has been left as Unspecified to reflect this ambiguity rather than guessing.
The role title is 'Security Engineering Intern' with no explicit seniority level in the title; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The actual scope is entry-level/intern, mapped to Junior.
Cloud platform experience (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and foundational database/SQL knowledge are listed under the 'What You Bring' requirements section and are treated as hard gates, though the 'or similar' framing means any one of the named cloud platforms satisfies the requirement.
The LLM/AI tools requirement ('integrate modern AI tools and local LLM agents such as Cursor or Claude Code') is listed under 'What You Bring' and treated as a hard gate; Cursor and Claude Code are named as examples rather than specific required tools.
CI/CD security, SIEM, IAM, and Vulnerability Management appear in the 'Your Impact' responsibilities section rather than the requirements block, so they are marked as preferred context rather than hard gates.
The alternative occupation code 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted as a runner-up because the intern role spans cloud security, AppSec, SecOps, and compliance — a broad mix that doesn't map cleanly to a single analyst occupation.
Posting is for a internship engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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