These 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).
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).