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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Puls Security | Lead Software Engineer (Distributed Systems Security) — strong Juniors also welcome | Full-time | REMOTE (within Germany) We are a mid-sized company based in Germany. We build secure distributed systems from the ground up. What we do: - Building services in Go…
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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.).
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Security and cryptography roles across the hiring threads.
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