Data Specialist

New York, New York, United States March 7, 2026 Jane Street Custom Careers Portal

About the Position

We're looking for a Data Specialist to help us understand, improve, and maintain the data that fuels our trading. You'll be embedded in an engineering team and will work closely with software developers, traders, and operations professionals across the firm.

Meeting the needs of these groups involves diverse types of work including analyzing, onboarding, validating, and producing large data sets from many different sources. You'll collaborate closely with your direct team and trading desks to understand requirements and improve our software. In this role, you will interface directly with exchanges and data vendors to raise, track, and resolve issues critical to our trading as well as develop deep domain knowledge to help interpret and consume our data, driving business growth in new areas. 

About You

  • Strong data analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
  • Programming experience in any language
  • Experience using SQL and relational databases
  • Responsible, organised, with great attention to detail
  • Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
  • Operations, support, and/or project coordination experience is a plus

 

While prior experience with financial data would be nice, we don’t expect you to have a finance background.

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How to Get Hired at Jane Street

  • Jane Street does not require finance experience — they hire brilliant quantitative thinkers from math, CS, physics, and engineering and train them on markets
  • OCaml proficiency is a major differentiator for software engineering roles; even basic functional programming experience sets you apart from most applicants
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