Senior Security Researcher

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher to apply their deep security background and knowledge to detect attacks on Azure. This person should have a deep understanding of the broader threat landscape, modern cloud computing architectures, and what it means to detect attacks in a large-scale, operational organization supporting millions of customers.  Are you up for this challenge? 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Research and document the data center threat landscape.
• Investigate large-scale telemetry data from Azure, postmortem attacks (including from red team operations),
• Lead data driven experiments, understand attacker tactics and techniques, and develop strategies to prevent similar attacks in the future.
• Code, implement, and guide others to create production-level attack detections. 
• Use attack simulation frameworks to develop end-to-end campaigns to evaluate defensive capabilities.
• Threat hunting to discover real world advanced attacks together with designing and implementing automated protection solutions.
• Collaborate closely with security researchers, engineers, data scientists, and product managers to design and implement effective security solutions.
• Participate and in planning on how we should measure the most pressing threats to the Azure environment and guiding others in the creation and improvement of these metrics.
• Work with other teams to understand how we could leverage their product data to solve our most important Azure protection problems.
• Other
  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection

  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay 

Single reqs: Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Jiily 18, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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