I'm curious what do you people think about security engineers vs software engineers? How does the TC stack up also what are opportunities like I'm security, do you think there will be a good future someone whonis currently a swe wanting to make the switch to security let me know your thoughts. I'm currently a swe but I'm considering making the change if the TC stacks up and there will be good opportunities. Current tc: 180k nyc
Most "security engineers" are people with associate degree and some security cert. Maybe slightly above the help desk. If you are really interested in security, reverse engineering you just need to be a really good software engineer. You need to understand OS inside and out,low level programming languages, assembly language and hardware.
Security engineers get paid more than SWE. If you are a dev, and you also specialize in security, you can make higher TC.
Security engineers don't really get appreciated when they are doing good jobs and no security breach happens. If there were a security breach, they would be the first one to get blamed and fired.