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# Senior Security Engineer at Qube Research & Technologies

- **Company:** Qube Research & Technologies
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/quberesearchandtechnologies/jobs/8894736002

## Job description

QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes. We are a data- and technology-driven organization applying scientific methods to investing. Our collaborative culture and focus on innovation enable us to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality returns for our investors.

## Your future role within QRT

We are seeking an experienced Senior Security Engineer to own complex security challenges across QRT’s global environment. This is a senior individual contributor role combining hands-on engineering, technical leadership, mentoring and operational responsibilities.

The role is expected to involve the following activities:

- Own security initiatives from discovery and design through delivery and ongoing operation, coordinating dependencies across teams and regions.

- Set technical direction and engineering standards, balancing security, reliability, performance and operational cost.

- Build and improve controls across identity and privileged access, endpoints, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, data protection and security monitoring.

- Identify security weaknesses and attack paths, prioritise them by business impact and deliver practical remediation.

- Automate deployment and operations through APIs, scripting and infrastructure as code, with appropriate testing and rollback procedures.

- Deliver resilient, supportable services with effective monitoring, runbooks and recovery procedures. Share responsibility for maintenance, support and troubleshooting.

- Participate in the security on-call rota, responding outside normal working hours as required. Lead complex incident troubleshooting and follow through on corrective actions.

- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, IT and development teams to integrate controls and drive adoption. Evaluate technologies through testing and ensure successful operational handover.

- Mentor junior engineers through coaching and design reviews, acting as a senior technical escalation point.

## Your present skillset

- Substantial security engineering experience in complex enterprise environments, including ownership of major initiatives spanning multiple teams.

- Deep practical expertise in several relevant security domains, such as identity, privileged access, endpoint or cloud security, infrastructure hardening, secrets management, PKI, data protection or detection engineering.

- Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, Active Directory, modern identity platforms, networking, authentication and hybrid infrastructure.

- Ability to work at both architecture and implementation level, with strong automation skills and experience using version control and delivery pipelines.

- Experience operating reliable production services, including upgrades, configuration management, monitoring, resilience and recovery.

- Sound risk judgement, clear communication and the ability to influence stakeholders, resolve dependencies and deliver under ambiguous requirements.

- Experience mentoring engineers and providing senior technical support during incidents and in an on-call environment.

Desirable to have experience or a willingness to learn in the following areas:

- Quantitative trading, financial services or other environments with demanding availability and performance requirements.

- Security services spanning multiple regions, clouds and data centres, including migration from legacy platforms.

- Technologies such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender and Intune, HashiCorp Vault, PAM platforms, Splunk and cloud-native security services. Equivalent experience is equally relevant.

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we offer initiatives and programmes to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

## About Qube Research & Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager that deploys data, research, and technology to execute multi-strategy trading across all asset classes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2018 (spun off from a systematic trading team at Credit Suisse, with roots tracing to 2016)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (spun out of Credit Suisse's systematic trading team)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Quantitative Hedge Fund / Systematic Investment Management
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and other large allocators)
- **Mission/purpose**: To combine data, research, technology, and trading expertise to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality returns for investors.

## Products & Services
- **Multi-Strategy Investment Management**: QRT deploys a diverse range of investment strategies across geographies, asset classes (equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, crypto), and time frames (high-frequency to long-term). They operate as a systematic, data-driven hedge fund.
- **Quantitative Research & Technology Platform**: The firm's core offering is its proprietary technology and research platform, which enables quantitative researchers, data scientists, and software engineers to develop and execute trading models at scale.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding: Not applicable (privately held, profitable firm). **Assets Under Management (AUM)**: Added $4bn in AUM between the start of 2024 and May 2024, returning 22% from January to April 2024 according to reports.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments). Spun off from Credit Suisse's systematic trading team.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+56.4% YoY** to 1,787 employees. Expanded to 16 offices across 24 countries (including new offices in Dubai, Chicago, and New York). Over 100 active job openings. AUM grew significantly in 2024.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data & Technology Moat**: Combines proprietary research, massive datasets, and advanced technology (including machine learning, low-latency C++/FPGA systems, and cloud infrastructure) to generate alpha across all asset classes and timeframes.
- **Multi-Strategy, Multi-Asset Diversification**: Operates across geographies, asset classes, and time horizons, reducing single-strategy risk and allowing capital to flow to the best opportunities.
- **Talent Density & Culture**: Rapidly hires top talent from competitors (Goldman Sachs, Citadel, Millennium, Credit Suisse) and top universities. A young, high-performance culture with 74% of staff aged 40 or under.
- **Compensation Model**: Over 40% of staff are part of a deferred compensation plan with exposure to fund performance, aligning employee incentives directly with investor returns.

## Strategic Focus
- **Aggressive Global Expansion**: Rapidly scaling headcount (+56% YoY) and opening new offices in key financial hubs (Dubai, Chicago, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong).
- **Technology & Infrastructure Investment**: Heavy investment in low-latency trading systems, FPGA engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms (Snowflake, Python, C++, C#).
- **Talent Acquisition**: Prioritizing hiring top quantitative researchers, software engineers, data scientists, and traders from competitors and top universities. Over 100 open roles globally.
- **Crypto & New Asset Classes**: Actively building a crypto trading team and expanding into new asset classes and geographies.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation & Career Growth**: Highly competitive pay. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Over 40% of staff are in a deferred compensation plan with exposure to fund performance. Glassdoor rating of 4.1/5.0, with compensation (4.0) and career opportunities (4.1) as top highlights.
- **Culture & Demographics**: Young, high-performance culture (74% of staff aged 40 or under, 38% aged 30 or under). 90% of staff reported good team morale in an internal survey. Described as a "fertile ground for experimental research."
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based depending on role and location. Offices in London (HQ), Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Dubai, Mumbai, Geneva, and more. New London office in Victoria.
- **Notable Perks**: Deferred compensation plan with fund performance exposure. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Strong focus on work-life balance initiatives.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy emphasis on technology (Python, C++, C#, Snowflake, FPGA, low-latency systems, MLflow, Kubernetes). 22% of staff are in Research roles, 6% in Technical roles. Strong support for coding initiatives and academic projects in maths and science.

## Sources
1. [qube-rt.com](https://www.qube-rt.com/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/qube-rt)
3. [efinancialcareers-canada.com](https://www.efinancialcareers-canada.com/news/qube-research-and-technologies-hiring-and-culture)
4. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/quberesearchandtechnologies?page=2)
5. [Careers Page](https://www.qube-rt.com/careers)

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