Cybersecurity Engineer

Jane Street; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street in Hong Kong is seeking a full-time Cybersecurity Engineer to protect our people, data, and infrastructure. You will build defenses across the firm, automate security tasks, and share expertise with other teams.

You should have strong scripting, understand threat modeling, and maintain good cybersecurity hygiene. Fluency in English is required, and you will help run awareness initiatives and incident response efforts across the office.

Qualifications

• Experience with scripting or programming to automate tasks.
• Ability to manage code and configs using version control.
• Knowledge of threat modeling concepts and risk-based thinking.
• Understanding of personal cybersecurity hygiene and ability to explain trade-offs.
• Keeps up with cybersecurity developments and differentiates practical threats from hype.
• Fluency in English and effective communication in a global team.

Responsibilities

• Protect firm-wide people, data, and infrastructure from internet threats.
• Provide cybersecurity expertise and guidance to other teams.
• Lead employee cybersecurity awareness efforts across the firm.
• Handle event analysis and incident response responsibilities where needed.

Skills

Scripting & automation

Version control

Threat modeling

Security hygiene

Cybersecurity news awareness

English fluency

Job description

About the Position

We’re looking to add a full-time, passionate Cybersecurity Engineer to our Hong Kong office to help protect our company’s people, data, and infrastructure from the wilds of the internet. Our Cybersecurity Engineers work on firm-wide defenses, provide expertise and advice to other groups, lead employee cybersecurity awareness efforts, and handle some of the event analysis and incident response responsibilities of the firm. We’re looking for someone who has a strong technical foundation, who is not afraid to build something themselves, who brings good taste to solving security problems, and who can reason about and explain the “why” behind security practices.

About You

• Have strong scripting or programming, and surrounding practices: You have an interest and ability to automate in a real programming language, ability and desire to manage your code and configs in version control, and knowledge of your editor (we don’t care which editor, though)
• A measured responder: Not everyone should be locking their entire lives down in the name of security. You can discuss trade-offs when it comes to cybersecurity, think about context, and understand what threat modeling is
• You understand and practice good personal cybersecurity hygiene, and can talk to others about it: For example, you know what a password manager is, and either use one or have something which you can reasonably argue is better, and can walk someone through the tradeoffs you’ve made (Seriously, we’ll ask you about this sort of thing during the interview process)
• You’re tapped into cybersecurity developments: You follow cybersecurity news, but can tell the difference between the latest cool hack by security researchers and what actually matters in your day-to-day
• Have a positive and collaborative attitude: You understand that a key component of cybersecurity is bringing others along with you on the journey
• Fluency in English required