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title: 'Senior Information Security Engineer at Squarepoint Capital'
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# Senior Information Security Engineer at Squarepoint Capital

- **Company:** Squarepoint Capital
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Posted:** 2025-12-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/open-opportunities?id=7479509&gh_jid=7479509

## Job description

Team: Information Security

Position Overview:

Squarepoint is seeking a subject matter expert to join our Information Security team as a Senior Information Security Engineer. This senior position plays a pivotal role in strengthening our security posture by providing expert guidance, and driving improvements across key areas such as network, cloud, data, and system security. The successful candidate will act as an escalation point to the Security Operations, ensuring complex security problems are effectively analysed and resolved. This role includes overseeing security in critical IT projects, leading threat modelling for complex systems, auditing key systems for security gaps, and building automated capabilities to continuously validate controls’ effectiveness and system resilience. This position offers an opportunity to lead security initiatives and shape the security roadmap. A high degree of self-motivation and proactivity is mandatory for success in this role.

- Strengthen security across core areas, including network and system security, email security, cloud security, and data protection.
- Serve as a security advisor for IT projects, ensuring security requirements are met and risks are mitigated.
- Manage and optimize security tools, ensuring they are effectively deployed and maintained.
- Lead the design and development of security solutions and architectures to protect critical assets.
- Provide second-line support to Security Operations.
- Conduct threat modelling and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and drive proactive mitigation strategies.
- Oversee relationships with the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, ensuring service effectiveness and continuous improvement.
- Execute security roadmap’s initiatives, aligning with business objectives and emerging threats.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance security awareness and integrate security into business processes.

Required Qualifications:

- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in an information security role, such as security engineering, security architecture, security operations, or application security.
- Thorough understanding of security best-practices, principles, and system hardening techniques.
- Hands-on experience with threat modelling, security testing, including penetration testing, and automated security validation.
- Solid knowledge of cloud, network, and systems security concepts.
- Experience with scripting with one or more languages – Python and PowerShell experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with security tools such as EDR software, DLP solutions, vulnerability scanners, firewalls and email gateways.
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex problems and design pragmatic solutions.
- Effective communication skills to work with technical and non-technical teams.
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM related field.

Nice to have:

- Strong knowledge of risk assessment methodologies.
- Familiarity with security best practices, configurations, and threat management in Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Ability to analyse software for security risks, including reviewing source code, performing static and dynamic analysis, and identifying vulnerabilities in application design and implementation.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and security standards (e.g., SEC Cybersecurity rules, MAS TRM Guidelines, NFA Cybersecurity Guidance, GDPR etc.)
- Relevant security certifications.

## About Squarepoint Capital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Squarepoint Capital is a leading global quantitative investment manager that uses a rigorous scientific approach and state-of-the-art technology to construct diversified, systematic strategies for institutional clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed external funding; spun out from Barclays in 2014)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014 (as an independent firm; the underlying business, nQuant, dates back to 2000 within Lehman Brothers and later Barclays)
- **Founders**: Led by four founding partners (names not publicly disclosed); the original founders of nQuant continue to lead Squarepoint today.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Quantitative Investment Management
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (B2B)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Achieving high quality returns for our clients” through a systematic, diversified, and research-driven investment platform.

## Products & Services
- **Quantitative Investment Strategies**: A diversified portfolio of systematic strategies spanning multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities), trading frequencies (high-frequency to long-term), and global markets. The majority of investments are based on rigorous backtesting on historical data.
- **Technology & Data Platform**: A custom, nimble, and forward-looking software stack that enables seamless integration between research and trading, executing millions of trades per day. Includes low-latency trading systems and a world-class data infrastructure.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue is not publicly disclosed (LinkedIn estimates ~$12M, but this likely underrepresents a firm of this scale; the figure should be treated with caution). The firm is privately held and does not report earnings.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors; the firm is privately held by its founding partners. Alumni frequently move to top quant funds and tech companies (e.g., Millennium, Citadel, Qube Research & Technologies, Google, Jump Trading).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 33.9% year-over-year to approximately 1,801 employees (LinkedIn, 2025). The firm operates 17 offices across 8 countries and is actively hiring across technical, research, and finance roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep heritage**: The team’s quantitative roots trace back to 2000, with a proven track record through multiple market cycles.
- **Scientific rigor**: A disciplined, research-first approach that relies on backtesting and systematic execution rather than discretionary bets.
- **Scale and technology**: Executes millions of trades daily using a highly custom, low-latency platform developed in-house.
- **Global diversification**: Strategies span asset classes, geographies, and trading frequencies, reducing reliance on any single market or style.
- **Culture of ownership**: Privately held and led by its founding partners, fostering long-term thinking and accountability.

## Strategic Focus
- **Diversification**: Continuously expanding into new asset classes, trading frequencies, and geographies.
- **Technology investment**: Ongoing development of proprietary software and data infrastructure to maintain a competitive edge in research and execution.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring quantitative researchers, software engineers (C++, Python), platform engineers, and operations specialists across global offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaboration across teams, a flat structure with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and a focus on intellectual curiosity.
- **Work environment**: In-office for most roles (offices in New York, Boston, London, Paris, Singapore, Bangalore, etc.). Some roles offer a remote work program, but the majority require physical presence.
- **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(K) matching, disability and life insurance, paid sick days, generous PTO, paid volunteer time, free snacks and drinks. Offices are designed for in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Technology is considered core to the business; engineers work closely with quantitative researchers to build and optimize trading systems. Emphasis on C++, Python, Kubernetes, and low-latency systems.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and a global footprint offer opportunities for career advancement and international mobility.

## Sources
1. [squarepoint-capital.com](https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/)
2. [squarepoint-capital.com/about](https://squarepoint-capital.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
4. [builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital)

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