Who Is Hiring? Search › Security vs Cryptography vs Penetration testing
Security hiring on Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts: general security engineering, applied cryptography and penetration testing, charted by share of postings since 2011.
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Security work spans three overlapping specialties, and the chart sizes each. General security engineering dominates the postings, while applied cryptography and offensive penetration testing hold smaller, focused niches. The relative bands show how the mix moves over time. Read the sample postings to see the kinds of teams hiring for each - product-security roles at scale-ups, crypto roles at infrastructure and fintech shops, pentest roles at security consultancies.
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…Intel, and Adobe, across industries Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Security. Team is 41 full-time, full-remote from 20+ countries. We're growing, profitable, employee-owned, no dependence on outside funding. Applicants from all geographies and backgrounds are welcome. We are…
…* Implement rigorous data quality checks, monitoring, and security measures across all data assets. * 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong grasp of data warehousing, ETL ELT principles, and data modeling. * Experience with BigQuery (, Redshift, Snowflake,…
…doing interesting things (consensus algorithms, distributed systems, cryptography), but on the other hand that means it’s immature and often not easy to operate and monitor. Often we have to build custom tools, and dive into the source code of the project. We contribute patches…
…in a technically demanding area. Classic fits: distributed systems, cryptography, networking. Equally welcome: compilers, OS internals, formal verification, database internals — or any other field where you have real depth. - Solid engineering skills in Go, Python and or Rust -…
…and secure messaging network built to last forever We’re hiring a cryptography-minded Rust engineer, a design-minded React Native engineer, and a blockchain-minded distributed systems engineer. All Staff Level roles. We operate like owners, and believe that our passion combined…
Black Hills Information Security | Senior DevOps Engineer | REMOTE Role focuses on developing and maintaining automation for penetration testing service infrastructure (C2, remote access, phishing, etc.).
…seeking Information Security Analyst, Cyber Security Analyst, Penetration Tester, or SOC Analyst roles. Location: Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka, India Open to: Remote IST overlap Willing to relocate: Within India for strong opportunities Cybersecurity graduate with hands-on…
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Security and cryptography roles across the hiring threads.
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