Senior Security Engineer at Muon Space
San Jose, CA
$184,000–$208,000from the description
Jul 30, 2026
San Jose, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on security engineering role at a satellite systems company, responsible for owning and advancing security across endpoints, cloud (AWS), identity, and network infrastructure. The position spans vulnerability management, SIEM-based detection engineering, IAM administration, and CMMC/NIST 800-171 compliance. It suits an experienced security generalist who can operate independently across multiple domains and support incident response end-to-end.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 430 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 180–940
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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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 Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is hybrid (3 days/week on-site in San Jose, CA) OR fully remote from an approved U.S. location — remote=true reflects the fully-remote option being explicitly offered.
No formal degree is mentioned anywhere in the posting.
No security clearance is required, though the role involves ITAR/EAR-controlled information; applicants must be U.S. persons or otherwise eligible — this is an export-control citizenship gate, not a government clearance gate.
CrowdStrike and SentinelOne are listed as interchangeable EDR/XDR options under required qualifications; one or the other satisfies the requirement.
Tenable, Qualys, and Rapid7 are listed as interchangeable vulnerability scanning tools under required qualifications.
Okta and Azure AD are listed as interchangeable IAM administration options under required qualifications.
Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Elastic are listed as interchangeable SIEM options under required qualifications.
Terraform and CloudFormation appear only under 'Nice-to-Have Skills', as does CISSP/GIAC/CEH certification.
CMMC Level 2 and SOC 2/ISO 27001 are mentioned as compliance frameworks but are framed as 'familiarity with' rather than hard gates; NIST 800-171 is the most prominently required compliance framework and is captured as a required skill.
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