Environment: fully on-site (5 days per week)
Glocomms is partnered with a global quantitative trading firm seeking an elite Security Software Engineer to join its core engineering team in New York City. This role is designed for a top-tier technologist, a visionary security expert who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge software development, cloud innovation, and advanced threat detection.
You will be entrusted with building the most secure trading systems in the world, using your expertise to fortify mission-critical infrastructure while anticipating and neutralizing threats in a fast-moving environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, build, and optimize advanced security frameworks that safeguard ultra-low latency trading systems, leveraging your deep expertise in high-performance, distributed systems.
- Contribute to cloud security strategy across diverse cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure) implementing state-of-the-art solutions that protect massive-scale systems while ensuring high availability.
- Design and implement next-generation detection and response capabilities, utilizing AI and machine learning to enhance real-time threat identification and remediation in milliseconds.
- Define and drive the firm’s identity and authentication architecture; serve as a technical contributor to implement the most secure access control and authentication mechanisms (e.g., OAuth, SAML, and multi-factor authentication).
- Collaborate closely with core engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to embed security best practices into every phase of the software development lifecycle, delivering high-assurance code without compromising speed or innovation.
- Develop systems that automate security incident responses at a granular level to ensure proactive defense against sophisticated cyber threats, zero-day vulnerabilities, and insider risks.
- Spearhead initiatives in data protection and cryptography, prioritizing the highest level of security for sensitive information, keys, and confidential trading algorithms.
- Leverage your advanced knowledge of container orchestration security to secure microservices and infrastructure across Kubernetes and Docker environments.
Ideal Candidate:
- You are an exceptionally skilled software engineer with mastery of Python, C++, Go, or Java, and have a deep understanding of secure coding, cryptography, and vulnerability mitigation.
- You have extensive experience building cloud-native security architectures, particularly on GCP, with proven expertise in AWS security services (IAM, KMS, Security Hub, GuardDuty).
- You have designed and implemented high-performance detection and response frameworks, integrating AI/ML models and cutting-edge threat detection tools.
- You are a recognized expert in identity and access management (IAM), with a deep understanding of authentication protocols, MFA, and privileged access management.
- Your knowledge of security automation, SIEMs, intrusion detection, and incident response is unparalleled, with a track record of building highly automated, adaptive security systems.
- You are fluent in securing containerized applications and hybrid cloud infrastructures, particularly in high-performance and highly regulated environments.
- You operate with the utmost precision, translating complex security concepts into solutions that protect the firm’s edge in the market.
This is a fully on-site role based out of downtown Manhattan. Interested candidates should be located in (or willing to relocate to) the New York City Metropolitan Area.
