Cybersecurity Engineer

The role

Cybersecurity Engineers develop and use monitoring tools to protect employees, data, and infrastructure. They handle incident response and remediation when a threat is found.

What you will do

• Develop and use monitoring tools to guard the firm
• Handle incident response and remediation when a threat is found
• Perform unstructured investigations to locate and repair the source of a security issue
• Act as an ambassador of best practices to the rest of the firm

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
• An avid follower of cybersecurity news
• A strong programmer who can demonstrate high potential and an aptitude for learning
• Comfortable and interested in managing code and configs in version control
• Knowledge of your editor
• Familiar with threat modeling
• Able to clearly communicate understanding of tradeoffs to internal stakeholders
• Able to explain cybersecurity decisions made in your own life
• Able to adapt to changing scenarios and make challenging decisions under pressure
• Humble attitude about what you know and don’t know
• Curious problem solver with a positive, collaborative attitude
• Fluent in English

About the company

Jane Street's Cybersecurity team is a group of programmers and security experts dedicated to keeping the firm safe.