IT Security Engineer
Jane Street
Salary undisclosed
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Description
About the Position
We are looking for an IT Security Engineer with a strong Windows engineering background and practical exposure to modern platform security controls to join a global team dedicated to securing Jane Street’s IT platforms. In this role, you will help secure our internal IT and remote working platforms through a combination of hands-on technical work, consultancy, and security influence to the wider IT team.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong judgment and discerning taste in prioritizing potentially complex and extensive remediation efforts. We’ll lean on you to suggest where to focus our mitigation efforts, and to provide both technical advice and decision making on behalf of the group where needed. This role will encompass a range of responsibilities, including:
- Proactively proposing, designing, testing, implementing, and documenting strategic security controls
- Coordinating and delivering security solutions across our IT platforms while identifying opportunities to further automate intelligent workflows
- Building security controls that scale, investigating emerging threats, developing new security tooling, and driving vulnerability management initiatives
This position sits within our IT Engineering group, a highly dedicated team of engineers who monitor and manage our environment across a physical/virtual computing landscape spanning three continents. Your analytical thinking and expertise will be invaluable as we support the daily work of our colleagues and keep our systems operating at the highest standard.
About You
- Proficient in securing Windows OS platforms and resolving complex technical issues in a fast-moving environment
- Have hands-on experience utilizing integrated security technologies for safeguarding Windows operating systems, including application control, host-based firewalls, auditing and event monitoring, and disk encryption
- Skilled in the administration of endpoint security and vulnerability management solutions, including antivirus, anti-malware, EDR, vulnerability scanning, and patch management
- Knowledgeable about security best practices, including operating system hardening, privileged access management, and vulnerability mitigation
- Have an understanding of common threat tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and effective countermeasures
- Well-versed in Windows core infrastructure services (AD/EntraID, PKI)
- Eager to produce scalable and repeatable security practices through automation
- Have an understanding of security tooling and APIs
- Take a flexible, reliable, and highly collaborative approach to your work
- An ability to script in PowerShell or other languages is strongly desired
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.
About this role
Jane Street's IT Security Engineering team is looking for someone to take ownership of Windows platform security across their global infrastructure. You'd be hands-on from day one—designing and implementing security controls, managing endpoint protection and vulnerability programs, and making judgment calls on where remediation efforts should focus. The role spans technical execution, consultation to the wider IT team, and strategic influence, so you'd need to balance deep technical work with the ability to advise others and prioritize complex, competing demands.
The ideal candidate has solid Windows administration experience and practical familiarity with modern security tools: application control, host-based firewalls, EDR, patch management, and privileged access management. You should understand Windows infrastructure (Active Directory, PKI), common threat tactics and defenses, and security hardening principles. Scripting ability in PowerShell or similar languages is strongly desired, as is a mindset oriented toward automation and scalability. This is a role for someone who can think analytically, work reliably in a fast-moving environment, and collaborate effectively across a dedicated engineering team supporting systems across three continents.
Typical pay for this role
$140,000
Typical range: $120,000 to $140,000
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