Windows Engineer Internship, June-September

Jane Street

Dec 28, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Software Engineering
London

Requirements

We don’t expect you to have a background in one specific field. We’re more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know. We’re looking for smart people who enjoy solving problems and are:
A strong programmer who can demonstrate high potential and an aptitude for learning
Knowledgeable of operating system fundamentals and computer architecture
Able to understand network protocols at a basic level
Intellectually curious, collaborative and eager to learn
Humble, unafraid to ask questions, and is able to admit their mistakes
A strong communicator
As comfortable at the command line as you are in a GUI
Experience with Windows Operating systems—whether that’s from coursework, time spent as a systems administrator for your campus computer lab, side projects or something else
Fluent in English

Responsibilities

As a Windows Engineering intern, you’ll work side by side with full-timers in the IT department to learn how we design, deploy, secure and maintain key infrastructure components that are critical to Jane Street's success. Our Windows Engineers manage a combination of systems we’ve created ourselves, open-source tools meshed together to provide higher-level functions, and integrations with industry-leading third-party tools and platforms. All of these systems serve to support the Windows desktop and server estate, as well as the tech infrastructure across the company, regardless of platform.
On any given day, you may be troubleshooting technical issues, brainstorming approaches to improve systems and workflows, writing code or learning about new technology our team may want to deploy. You’ll also learn how we use OCaml (our primary development language), F# (a similar language used with our Windows systems) and PowerShell (a scripting language used for the majority of our automation in IT) in our day-to-day work, and gain exposure to the libraries and tools that are foundational to our internal systems.
During the internship, you’ll be exposed to technologies ranging from directory services, DNS implementations and software deployment tools, to enterprise telephony infrastructure, remoting protocols and hardware/virtualisation platforms.
After your initial training, you’ll work in tandem with full-timers on two projects. You’ll also have an opportunity to work on some more general engineering tasks. While your projects may vary in scope and content, they are drawn directly from our team’s mission-critical stack and could include things like:
Developing and maintaining tools and applications related to user and group administration, hardware/software inventory, operating system builds and software development environments
Identifying, researching and remediating tech vulnerabilities and improving related tooling
Automating repetitive tasks ranging from user onboarding to performing security assessments on new software
Standardising our Windows, telephony and virtualisation environments by optimising code and monitoring tools (infrastructure as code)
Performing wide-scale configuration changes

Jane Street

Finance

Industry

1001-5000

Employees

2000

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people. Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar. Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other, and prioritize teamwork over titles. We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office, because deepening your understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual exchanges that happen every day. People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.