SaaS Security Engineer

Salario mediano: $140,000 USD · BLS 2024Aproximadamente $2,450,000 MXN al tipo de cambio actual. Tu banco aplicará el tipo de cambio real al momento de cualquier transacción.

A SaaS security engineer governs the dozens to hundreds of third-party SaaS applications a typical enterprise actually runs. The category emerged after the 2023 wave of identity-driven breaches (Okta, MGM Resorts, Caesars, 23andMe) demonstrated that traditional perimeter and endpoint controls miss the most consequential attack paths. You inventory the SaaS sprawl with an SSPM (SaaS Security Posture Management) platform, you enforce SSO and conditional access on every onboarded application, you tune misconfigurations against the SaaS Cybersecurity Foundation Benchmarks, and you respond when a vendor itself gets compromised and your tenant data is at risk. The discipline is anchored by NIST SP 800-207 (zero trust), CSA's SaaS Security Capability Framework, and emerging guidance from the OWASP SaaS Security project. Most SaaS-security engineers work in cybersecurity-mature mid-market or enterprise firms; smaller orgs typically fold the work into IT operations.