Hire vetted offshoreSecurity Engineers.
Application and cloud security engineers across Asia — screened on real findings, remediation work and compliance programmes they've actually run.
- Full-time, dedicated, employed by Sprint Labs
- Named shortlist in 5–10 business days
- One flat monthly seat cost, no placement fee
Recorded intros, prior work and references.
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Named, vetted candidates with recordings and rates. No account, no call required.
How much does an offshore security engineer cost, and how does hiring one work?
Offshore security engineers cost USD 2,800–4,200 per month all-in at mid-level, USD 4,200–6,200 senior. Most demand is triggered by a first enterprise deal or a SOC 2 / ISO 27001 requirement.
Embedded in teams across six markets
How fast can I get a candidate started?
Tell us the role
Two minutes, no account. Seniority, start date, anything specific.
We recruit and vet
Skills tests, a working session and reference checks against your brief.
You meet a shortlist
Named candidates with recordings, prior work and a flat monthly seat cost.
They start, we employ them
Contracts, local payroll, HR and retention sit with Sprint Labs.
Same role. A fraction of the cost.
Fully-loaded annual seat cost compared with hiring the same role locally.
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Employed and payrolled by Sprint Labs — included
- Replacement at no extra cost — included
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Employed and payrolled for you — not included
- Replacement at no extra cost — not included
Onshore ranges derived from the Hays Salary Guide (Australia) and Robert Half Salary Guide (United States), 2025 editions, converted to USD and loaded with employer on-costs. Sprint Labs figures are our own 2025 pricing.
What does a strong security engineer change?
Most companies hire their first security engineer reactively — a customer sends a 200-line security questionnaire and nobody can answer it. That role is genuinely fillable offshore, because the work is documentation, hardening and process as much as it is exploitation. Sprint Labs screens for both sides.
What they own
- Run vulnerability scanning and drive remediation
- Harden cloud IAM, network boundaries and secrets handling
- Own security questionnaires and compliance evidence
- Threat-model new features with the engineering team
- Build and rehearse incident-response runbooks
What skills should a security engineer have?
- Application security / OWASP
- Cloud security (AWS, Azure)
- IAM & least privilege
- SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness
- Vulnerability management
- Penetration testing
- SIEM & log analysis
- Secrets management
- Threat modelling
- Incident response
Security Engineer seat cost, USD per month.
Indicative fully-loaded seat cost including salary, statutory benefits, local payroll, hardware, HR support and Sprint Labs' employer overhead. There is no separate recruitment fee — your exact quote is generated in-app. Benchmarks in USD, reviewed .
- Entry
- $1,850 – $2,750
- Mid
- $3,000 – $4,200
- Senior
- $4,300 – $6,000
- Entry
- $1,800 – $2,650
- Mid
- $2,900 – $4,000
- Senior
- $4,100 – $5,800
- Entry
- $1,750 – $2,600
- Mid
- $2,800 – $3,900
- Senior
- $4,000 – $5,500
- Entry
- $1,850 – $2,750
- Mid
- $3,000 – $4,400
- Senior
- $4,400 – $6,200
Entry-level covers capable candidates with 1–3 years' experience, best where the work is well defined and supervised.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Interviewing a security engineer.
Findings, not tools
Anyone can run a scanner. Ask for the most interesting vulnerability they personally found and how they got it fixed — the second half matters more.
Compliance realism
If SOC 2 is your driver, ask what evidence they've collected before and which controls caused the most friction. Vague answers mean they've only read about it.
Ability to influence engineers
Security work is mostly persuasion. Ask how they've handled a team that refused to fix something.
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Real-time neutralisation
Accent is softened live on the call, with latency low enough that the conversation still feels natural.
Their voice, preserved
Tone, pace, warmth and intent stay theirs. It is your actual team member on the line, just easier to follow.
Your existing phone system
Layers over the softphone or dialler you already run. No porting, no new platform, nothing to retrain.
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Questions about hiring an offshore security engineer.
Is it safe to hire security staff offshore?
Yes, with the same controls you'd apply to any privileged hire. Every Sprint Labs employee signs a direct employment contract with confidentiality and IP clauses; we run background and reference checks; and you scope access through your own IAM. Many customers start the engagement with read-only and audit access and expand it as trust builds.
Can an offshore security engineer get us SOC 2 ready?
They can do the bulk of the work — control implementation, evidence collection, policy drafting, remediation — but you'll still need an accredited auditor and an internal accountable owner. The offshore hire makes the process affordable; it doesn't replace the audit.
Do I need a local entity to hire a security engineer offshore?
No. Sprint Labs is the legal employer in-market. We contract the security engineer, run local-currency payroll, handle statutory benefits and compliance, and bill you one flat monthly seat cost in your own currency. You direct the work day-to-day exactly as you would an in-house hire.
How long does it take to hire a security engineer through Sprint Labs?
Most briefs produce a named, vetted shortlist within 5–10 business days. From there you interview, choose, and we handle the offer, contract and onboarding — typical brief-to-start is three to five weeks depending on the candidate's notice period.
What happens if the hire is not the right fit?
Tell us within the first 30 days and we replace them at our cost. After that, engagements carry a 60-day cancellation notice, which protects the employee and gives you time to hand over work — but if you want to swap rather than terminate, we run a replacement search in parallel at no additional recruitment cost.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
What other roles are often hired alongside?
Brief the role. See a shortlist within 5–10 business days.
Named, vetted candidates with recordings, prior work and references — plus a flat monthly seat cost in your own currency.
