Hiring and Interviewing as Security Engineers
summary
Distills hiring into three concrete interview tracks — product engineering, proactive infra/security engineering, and reactive/secops — and maps exact skills: CS + LeetCode practice for product; Yara, OWASP cheat sheets, OSQuery and contributing to open source for proactive; resilience, SQL, log parsing and large‑data hunting for reactive. Recommends a maintained skills and capabilities matrix, a shared evaluation rubric, targeted sourcing (conferences, geos), limiting job descriptions to 5–7 must‑haves, and a rule: don't hire unicorns.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:01Security career overview
- 3:43Security mind map
- 6:11Product security roles
- 8:24Proactive security roles
- 10:45Reactive security roles
- 13:14Hiring strategies
- 15:32Effective hiring tips
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