Security Operations Engineer - AI-Driven Detection

Hudson River Trading; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Hudson River Trading in New York seeks an experienced Security Operations Engineer to join our Security Operations team. You’ll be hands-on across the security operations stack, handling incidents, building detections, and deploying automations to protect our global systems.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in security engineering, strong Python, Linux (Debian a plus), and a track record of delivering projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a security engineering role.
• Strong understanding of attacker tools and techniques.
• Programming experience, preferably in Python.
• Experience working with Linux systems (Debian is a huge plus!).
• Willingness to work an on‑call rotation during business hours and one weekend per month.

Responsibilities

• Help maintain and enhance HRT’s security detection and response program to protect our data and intellectual property from both internal misuse and external threats
• Respond to malicious activity and anomalous events on HRT’s devices and networks
• Conceive and implement novel security rules
• Design and build innovative automations to supercharge incident response
• Build and utilize AI tools to respond to today’s emerging threats
• Foster strong cross‑functional relationships with HRT’s global teams and external vendors

Skills

Incident response

Python programming

Linux systems

On-call readiness

Project management

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Hudson River Trading in New York seeks an experienced Security Operations Engineer to join our Security Operations team. You’ll be hands-on across the security operations stack, handling incidents, building detections, and deploying automations to protect our global systems.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in security engineering, strong Python, Linux (Debian a plus), and a track record of delivering projects.