Cybersecurity Engineer

About the Position

Jane Street is looking to add a full-time, passionate Cybersecurity Engineer to our New York office to help protect our company's people, data, and infrastructure from the wilds of the internet. Our Cybersecurity Engineers work on firm-wide defenses, provide expertise and advice to other groups, lead employee cybersecurity awareness efforts, and handle some of the event analysis and incident response responsibilities of the firm.

We're looking for someone who has a strong technical foundation, who is not afraid to build something themselves, who brings good taste to solving security problems, and who can reason about and explain the “why” behind security practices.

About You

• Strong scripting or programming, and surrounding practices: An interest and ability to automate in a real programming language, ability and desire to manage code and configs in version control, and knowledge of your editor.
• A measured responder: Ability to discuss trade-offs when it comes to cybersecurity, think about context, and understand threat modeling.
• Good personal cybersecurity hygiene: Understand and practice strong cybersecurity hygiene, and walk others through the tradeoffs (e.g., password manager usage).
• Tapped into cybersecurity developments: Follow cybersecurity news and discern between researcher findings and what matters in day-to-day operations.
• Positive and collaborative attitude: Understand that a key component of cybersecurity is bringing others along on the journey.