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>It is an extremely lucrative time to be working in security. Is it though? The average salary of a security engineer seems to be lower than that of a software
by liviu- 11y ago
>It is an extremely lucrative time to be working in security.
Is it though? The average salary of a security engineer seems to be lower than that of a software engineer, and there seem to be considerably fewer positions available. Those very high paid positions seem few and far between.
- sliverstorm 11y agoI wonder if the high power security positions just aren't publicly listed. That seems like the sort of job you fill exclusively by recommendation or pursuit of candidates, rather than a job listing on LinkedIn.
- dsacco 11y agoBingo. I'm not talking about "cybersecurity" positions. I'm talking about people doing advanced work in exploitation, reverse engineering and cryptography on a consulting basis or those who work in boutique shops. I pass the $300k mark annually through AppSec consulting, and this is not at maximum utilization, nor is it a particularly "hard" discipline in security.
- devonkim 11y agoThese are probably at least half the software engineer positions that pay more than $150k+ in the DC area. Most of the software jobs among start-ups and even commercial software development pretty much capped out a fair bit below that. I know I was dropped from several interviews just asking for a base of only $130k and not being very good exactly. There's a demand for people that are actually serious security professionals in the engineering sense just as much as there is a massive demand for the bureaucratic "security" folks (that focus upon certificates and such to get their feet in the door of some random defense contractor).