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# Senior Cybersecurity Governance, Risk & Compliance Specialist (OCaml Experience) at Jane Street

- **Company:** Jane Street
- **Location:** New York New York, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/apply/8751869002?gh_jid=8751869002

## Job description

Jane Street Group, LLC  has multiple openings for the position of Senior Cybersecurity Governance, Risk & Compliance Specialist in New York, NY.

The position duties are as follows: Lead strategic cybersecurity vendor risk management initiatives to enhance the firm's vendor risk posture and regulatory compliance framework. Day-to-day job duties include:

- Architect and implement comprehensive cybersecurity vendor risk governance frameworks that align with regulatory requirements and establish enterprise-wide vendor risk tolerance thresholds.
- Provide strategic leadership in vendor security risk analysis, mentoring junior team members, and establishing standardized methodologies for vendor due diligence, security assessments, and ongoing monitoring that integrate into the organization's overall enterprise risk management strategy.
- Partner with procurement, legal, and business stakeholders to lead vendor assessments across the vendor lifecycle—from initial due diligence and onboarding through periodic reassessments, continuous monitoring, incident response coordination, and offboarding—designing risk mitigation solutions that balance business enablement with regulatory compliance.
- Oversee vendor incident management and breach response protocols, establishing clear escalation procedures and coordinating with vendors during security events to ensure timely remediation and appropriate stakeholder communication.
- Lead operational efficiency initiatives by implementing automated vendor compliance monitoring solutions, transforming manual assessment processes into scalable governance workflows, and establishing key risk indicators and dashboards that enable proactive risk management and decision-making.

The position requires a 3 or 4 year Bachelor's degree in Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related scientific or quantitative field or foreign equivalent plus three (3) years of progressively responsible experience as a cybersecurity GRC analyst, or similar occupation at a financial services or technology firm. Experience must include:

- Two (2) years of experience applying knowledge of vendor-related regulatory requirements related to global regulatory bodies - including FCA, DORA, SEBI, SEC, and Finra - to the vendor assessment and onboarding process;
- One (1) year of experience managing vendor risk governance programs, including stakeholder management across technical and business teams;
- One (1) year of experience developing vendor risk frameworks and conducting risk assessments of third-party integrations;
- One (1) year of experience leading vendor security assessments and determining appropriate evaluation scope based on factors such as data sensitivity, system criticality, and operational dependencies; and
- One (1) year of experience conducting vendor assessments for a trading environment built primarily in OCaml and Python.
- All technical requirements for this role may be subject to employer conducted testing to assess minimum proficiency.

Part time telecommuting may be permitted with manager approval.

Ref. SCGRCS26

## 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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