Software Engineering
Security
You'll architect systems that never break and build teams that sleep soundly at night. This path creates CTOs who think like attackers but lead like defenders—paranoid enough to prevent disasters, calm enough to scale through them.
Career Progression
Rotational Tours · L1–L3
Build the craft. Prove you can wield the tools of Software Engineering.
Transformational Tours · L4–L7
Deliver outcomes. Each tour has a defined mission and success criteria.
Foundational Tours · L8–L10
Shape the organization. Build institutions, not just products.
What Hiring Managers Look For
L1-L3: You've shipped code that handles authentication, encryption, or vulnerability remediation under senior guidance.
L4-L6: You've architected zero-trust systems, led incident response for breaches, or built security tooling that other teams actually use.
L7+: You've defined enterprise security strategy that survived board scrutiny and regulatory audits while enabling business growth.
Common Career Transitions
Security → Platform Engineering at L5-L6 for infrastructure-wide impact
Security → Product Engineering at L4-L5 leveraging threat modeling skills
Security → DevOps/SRE at L4-L6 through compliance and infrastructure hardening experience