Cybersecurity Engineer

Jane Street Jane Street · Quant · Hong Kong · Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Engineer role focused on firm-wide defenses, providing expertise, leading awareness efforts, and handling incident response. Requires strong technical foundation, automation skills, threat modeling understanding, and good personal cybersecurity hygiene.

What you'd actually do

  1. help protect our company's people, data, and infrastructure from the wilds of the internet
  2. work on firm-wide defenses
  3. provide expertise and advice to other groups
  4. lead employee cybersecurity awareness efforts
  5. handle some of the event analysis and incident response responsibilities of the firm

Skills

Required

  • scripting or programming
  • version control
  • threat modeling
  • personal cybersecurity hygiene
  • understanding of cybersecurity developments

Nice to have

  • automation in a real programming language
  • knowledge of your editor

What the JD emphasized

  • strong technical foundation
  • not afraid to build something themselves
  • reason about and explain the “why” behind security practices
  • strong scripting or programming, and surrounding practices
  • manage your code and configs in version control
  • measured responder
  • discuss trade-offs when it comes to cybersecurity
  • understand what threat modeling is
  • understand and practice good personal cybersecurity hygiene
  • tapped into cybersecurity developments
  • tell the difference between the latest cool hack by security researchers and what actually matters in your day-to-day