Jane Street
Cybersecurity Engineer
About this role
Join our New York office as a Cybersecurity Engineer to build and maintain firm-wide security defenses, respond to incidents, and guide employees on cyber best practices. You'll combine strong technical skills with the ability to explain security trade-offs and collaborate across teams to protect people, data, and infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain firm-wide security defenses and infrastructure protections
- Perform incident analysis and response for security events
- Provide cybersecurity expertise and guidance to other teams
- Lead employee cybersecurity awareness and training initiatives
- Automate security processes and tools using programming
- Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments
What they're looking for
- Programming or scripting in production languages
- Version control and code management practices
- Threat modeling and risk analysis
- Incident response and event analysis
- Personal cybersecurity hygiene and best practices
- Security awareness and communication
- Knowledge of current cybersecurity landscape
- Ability to evaluate security trade-offs
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Jane Street
Jane Street builds high-performance trading systems and critical infrastructure using primarily OCaml and Python to support distributed trading operations. The company is hiring software engineers, network engineers, and operations engineers at both intern and full-time levels to work on real production projects including trading systems, infrastructure optimization, routing protocols, and internal tooling.
- Website
- janestreet.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you automated a security task or process using scripting or programming. Walk us through your approach, how you managed the code, and what you'd do differently today.
- Describe your personal cybersecurity practices—how do you manage passwords, and what trade-offs have you made in your own security hygiene? Why did you make those choices?