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title: 'IT Security Specialist at Jane Street'
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# IT Security Specialist at Jane Street

- **Company:** Jane Street
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/apply/8857690002?gh_jid=8857690002

## Job description

## About the position

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and technologically curious individual with a Windows security focus to join Jane Street's IT Security team. Our team is dedicated to securing the firm's Windows and macOS computing platforms, which you will contribute to through a combination of technical hands-on work, cross-team collaboration and creative problem-solving.  Responsibilities of this role will include:

- Deploying, documenting and supporting our security controls at scale
- Acting as a key contributor to our vulnerability management programme, ensuring vulnerabilities are rigorously detected and mitigated
- Providing security guidance and support to the broader IT department as well as our IT Operations Team as security incidents arise
- Developing both technical and non-technical solutions in collaboration with engineering teams that address security concerns
- Contributing to the development of our team’s operational playbooks, procedures, guidelines and technical security standards

We’re looking for someone who fully enjoys working with and being around people, takes pleasure in triaging complex problems and is able to delegate and escalate tasks effectively. This role is anything but siloed; we’ll rely on you to be a key liaison between the IT Security team and other internal technology groups to distill and communicate pertinent information. While we’re open to individuals from a range of backgrounds, someone who’s worked in a code-driven environment and has hands-on experience with security incident response is preferred.

## About you

- Have 5+ years of experience as a security or operations engineer, with a technical background rooted in Windows
- Experienced with maintaining, supporting and administering Windows platforms at scale, including Active Directory and Group Policy
- Solidly understand common attack scenarios targeting the Windows platform, as well as the protection technologies designed to mitigate them
- Strong troubleshooter, comfortable triaging security incidents and production issues; familiar with trend and log analysis, with hands-on experience using system monitoring and alerting tools to identify production disruptions
- Have hands-on experience deploying and implementing endpoint security controls at scale (anti-malware, EDR, application control, log aggregation, host-based firewalls, disk encryption, etc.)
- Comfortable with PowerShell, including experience scripting or building tooling to automate security tasks
- Knowledge of macOS and mobile device security fundamentals is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communicator; able to explain processes clearly to colleagues across the firm
- Comfortable working in an environment with shifting priorities
- Collaborative and approachable; eager to be a team player
- Fluent in English

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com

## About Jane Street

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jane Street is a global quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider that uses sophisticated technology, machine learning, and deep market expertise to trade financial products across equities, bonds, options, and ETFs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (not publicly traded)
- **Headquarters**: New York, USA (with offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam)
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed as a single founder group; the firm was founded by a team of quantitative traders and technologists.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Quantitative finance / Proprietary trading / Market making
- **Target customers**: Institutional clients (asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies, hedge funds) and global exchanges; the firm acts as a liquidity provider on over 200 electronic exchanges.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Solving the puzzle of global markets” — a research-driven approach to trading, blending human intuition with cutting-edge quantitative analysis.

## Products & Services
- **Market Making**: Jane Street provides continuous, two-sided quotes on equities, ETFs, bonds, options, and other instruments, helping keep prices consistent and reliable across global markets.
- **Proprietary Trading**: The firm trades its own capital across a wide range of asset classes, using sophisticated models and automated strategies.
- **Institutional Sales & Trading**: Partners with asset managers, pensions, and insurance companies to provide trading solutions and access to differentiated liquidity.
- **Technology & Infrastructure**: Builds all critical software in-house (trading systems, risk management, data analysis tools), using the OCaml functional programming language.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private firm). Industry estimates suggest Jane Street is one of the world’s largest and most profitable market makers, with annual trading volumes in the trillions of dollars.
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly disclosed. The firm is widely reported to have generated billions in annual revenue and profit, though exact figures are private.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 100% employee-owned. No external investors. Partners include top institutional clients globally.
- **Growth Signals**: Jane Street has grown every year in team, capital, and global presence since its founding in 2000. It has expanded from a focus on ETFs into equities, bonds, options, and other asset classes. The firm continues to invest heavily in machine learning and quantitative research.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technical Moat**: Builds almost all software in-house using OCaml, a statically typed functional language that provides high reliability, real-time visibility, and performance at market scale.
- **Data & Scale**: Trades on 200+ electronic exchanges globally, processing trillions of historical events to uncover both sub-microsecond and long-term market inefficiencies.
- **Talent Density**: A culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration across trading, research, and technology teams. The firm is known for hiring top minds from any background (math, physics, CS, engineering) and training them in-house.
- **Long-Term Track Record**: Over 20 years of consistent growth and profitability, navigating volatile markets with a disciplined, research-driven approach.

## Strategic Focus
- **Machine Learning & Quantitative Research**: Deepening the use of ML techniques across all trading strategies, from high-frequency to long-term systematic models.
- **Global Expansion**: Continuing to grow its presence in existing offices (NY, London, HK, Singapore, Amsterdam) and exploring new markets.
- **Technology Investment**: Ongoing investment in infrastructure, hardware (e.g., programmable hardware, high-performance computing), and software tools to maintain a competitive edge.
- **Talent Pipeline**: Heavy focus on recruiting interns and new grads, as well as experienced hires, with structured programs for learning and mentorship.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “open and collaborative,” with porous boundaries between trading, research, and technology. Intellectual humility and curiosity are highly valued.
- **Learning & Development**: Offers immersive internships, multi-day programs, direct mentorship, and a week abroad for interns. Full-time employees have access to extensive internal training, a library, and classrooms in every office.
- **Work Environment**: Most employees write code as part of their regular work. The firm is known for its technical excellence and for using the most advanced tools available.
- **Benefits**: Daily breakfast and lunch, fully-stocked kitchens, on-site gyms, nursing suites, quiet rooms, recreation spaces, health services, and more. Offices are designed for collaboration and deep focus.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the firm emphasizes in-person collaboration on trading floors. Offices are located in major global cities.
- **Diversity**: Actively seeks people from all backgrounds and emphasizes that the company is only as strong as its people.

## Sources
1. [janestreet.com - Home](https://www.janestreet.com/)
2. [janestreet.com - Overview](https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/overview/)
3. [janestreet.com - What We Do](https://www.janestreet.com/what-we-do/overview/)
4. [janestreet.com - Departments](https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/departments)
5. [janestreet.com - Open Roles](https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/open-roles/)

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