Cybersecurity Engineer - Security Operations Center (SOC)
Jane StreetAbout the Role
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'll be paired with full-time employees who act as mentors, collaborating with you on real-world projects we actually need done.
Our Cybersecurity Engineers are responsible for being on the front lines of guarding the firm from cyber threats through investigations and incident response, as well as building tools and automation to streamline, automate, and enhance workflows, and grow our capabilities.
While wearing the hat of an investigator, you'll be investigating alerts, digging through activity chains, and hunting and responding to evil. You'll gain an understanding of a wide variety of log sources, systems, and tooling, primarily in-house developed or open source.
While wearing the hat of an engineer, you'll learn good development practices and solve real problems with code so that we can detect and respond better, faster, and at scale.
You will also learn how to act as an ambassador of best practices to the rest of the firm, helping educate the firm about risk and best practices.
Requirements
- Currently majoring or planning to major in computer science or a similar field
- Interested in cybersecurity and technology in your personal life, through activities such as CTFs, home labbing, and/or personal development projects
- A strong programmer who can demonstrate high potential and an aptitude for learning
- Interested in your tools, including your editor, computer environment, version control, etc.
- Familiar with threat modeling and able to clearly communicate your understanding of trade-offs when it comes to security, risk, and usability
- Able to explain the cybersecurity decisions you've made in your own life, and how you've approached thinking about those decisions
- Able to adapt to changing scenarios and make challenging decisions under pressure
- Humble about what you know and don't know; not afraid to ask questions and admit mistakes
- A curious problem solver with a positive, collaborative attitude
- Someone who demonstrates perseverance and grit when investigating and learning new things beyond just a surface-level understanding
- Fluent in English