
Network Engineer at Jane Street (New York New York, United States)
Jane Street· New York New York, United States·
Job description
About the Position
Our goal is to give you a real sense of what it's like to work at Jane Street full time while also providing a truly unparalleled educational experience. As an intern, you are paired with full-time employees who act as mentors, collaborating with you on real-world projects we actually need done.
As a Network Engineer intern, you’ll work with full-timers to learn how we maintain and improve a critical piece of infrastructure underlying our firm’s technology. Our numerous distributed systems are built on a reliable, multi-vendor network infrastructure that supports all traffic profiles from trading to internet connectivity.
On any given day, we might be:
- Working on cross-team projects such as site expansions and new colocation builds
- Debugging routing protocols
- Provisioning new market data feeds and connections to third parties
- Automating support tasks and improving the team's ability to monitor the network
You’ll have a unique opportunity to see how our team interacts with several groups to build solutions that work on a firm-wide scale. We automate as much of our work as we can because we find that automation reduces our error rate and overall workload—plus, we think it's fun.
Your internship project might consider big-picture questions that we’re still trying to figure out, or involve building something new. Your mentors will help you understand the range of problems we solve every day, from finding new and interesting ways to resolve production issues quickly, to performing comprehensive root-cause analyses and integrating clean and robust long-term fixes.
Learn more about Jane Street’s internship program here.
About You
If you’ve never thought about a career in finance, you’re in good company. Many of us were in the same position before working here. If you have a curious mind, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for solving interesting problems, we have a feeling you’ll fit right in. We're more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know. You should be:
- Able to understand network protocols (ARP, BGP, OSPF) at a basic level
- Knowledgeable of operating system fundamentals and computer architecture
- A strong programmer who can demonstrate high potential and an aptitude for learning
- Intellectually curious, collaborative, and eager to learn
- Humble and unafraid to ask questions and admit mistakes
- A strong communicator
- Comfortable at the command line of a *nix machine
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.
Why work at Jane Street
- 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.