Salary for Senior-level / Expert Detection Engineer in United States during 2024

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Detection Engineer in United States during 2024 is USD 159,975

✏️ This salary info is based on 24 individual salaries reported during 2024

Submit your salary Download the data

Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Detection Engineer salary lies between USD 106,000 and USD 227,950 in the United States. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Detection Engineer
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
United States
Salary year
2024
Sample size
24
Top 10%
$ 260,000
Top 25%
$ 227,950
Median
$ 159,975
Bottom 25%
$ 106,000
Bottom 10%
$ 85,000

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

Last updated:

Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Detection Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Detection Engineer job listings are Cloud, Threat detection and Automation. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2024 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Cloud | 137 jobs Threat detection | 105 jobs Automation | 104 jobs Python | 104 jobs SIEM | 98 jobs Incident response | 92 jobs Scripting | 80 jobs Splunk | 78 jobs Threat intelligence | 69 jobs MITRE ATT&CK | 67 jobs Malware | 66 jobs Azure | 65 jobs SOC | 65 jobs Monitoring | 62 jobs Windows | 61 jobs XDR | 60 jobs AWS | 56 jobs EDR | 55 jobs Computer Science | 53 jobs Linux | 50 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Detection Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Detection Engineer job listings are Career development, Equity / stock options and Health care. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2024 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 134 jobs Equity / stock options | 107 jobs Health care | 95 jobs Flex hours | 92 jobs Team events | 85 jobs Flex vacation | 82 jobs Salary bonus | 79 jobs Parental leave | 74 jobs Medical leave | 70 jobs Insurance | 58 jobs Transparency | 50 jobs Wellness | 45 jobs Competitive pay | 40 jobs Home office stipend | 27 jobs Gear | 25 jobs Fitness / gym | 24 jobs Startup environment | 23 jobs 401(k) matching | 18 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 16 jobs Conferences | 15 jobs

Related salaries

Detection Engineer @ $ 143,000 (global) Details
Detection Engineer @ $ 159,975 (global) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Detection Engineer @ $ 101,000 (global) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Detection Engineer @ $ 143,000 (United States) Details
Detection Engineer @ $ 101,000 (United States) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details

Want to contribute?

📝 Submit your salary info

Enter your own salary data for the current or past work year. It's quite simple and doesn't take more than a minute to fill out.

Go to salary survey

📢 Share our salary survey

Share our "in-less-than-a-minute survey" with others working in the field of InfoSec / Cybersecurity. The more data we have the better for everyone.

💾 Download the data

All collected information will be updated into a public dataset regularly and provided as a download free for anyone to use.

Go to download page

🚀 Search for jobs & talent

If you're thinking about a career change or want to hire fresh talent quickly check out the jobs page.

Go to frontpage

About this project

We collect salary information anonymously from professionals and employers all over the world and make it publicly available for anyone to use, share and play around with.

Our goal is to have open salary data for everyone. So newbies, experienced pros, hiring managers, recruiters and also startup founders or people wanting to switch careers can make better decisions.