Principal Security Researcher

Overview

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.

Does protecting over 1 billion customers and making the cyber world a better place sound exciting? Do you have what it takes to be part of one of the world's most crucial security monitoring and detection teams?

Do you want to innovate and improve how Microsoft transforms learnings from Intel & incidents into actionable detection and automated processes?

This may be an opportunity for you. Azure Security seeks motivated, experienced Principal Security Researcher to join our team.

We are looking for someone who can dig into hard engineering problems to improve the core fundamentals of our systems, add critical and exciting new features, revolutionize how our engineers work day-to-day, and try new things like bringing the power of machine learning and statistical analysis at scale to solve these and other problems.

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.

Qualifications

Required / Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ 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

Other Requirements :

• 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, cloud security, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and / or anomaly detection
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with Security subject matter knowledge capable of understanding the technical details of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns & Researcher
• Ability to dive into the technical differences and properties of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns.
• 1+ years of track record in identifying multiple new attack techniques in the Identity domainWorking knowledge of cloud service development, static analysis, and CI / CD.
• Deep understanding of security attack techniques used in real-world scenarios, spanning both large-scale and targeted attacks.
• Extensive published research and ability to collaborate across the research community.
• Proficiency in C# / Python / PowerShell development.

Security Research IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here :

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 18, 2024.

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Responsibilities

• Lead and conduct Post Incident Reviews (PIR)
• Work directly on security reviews, formidable & complex automation and remediation workflows across multiple antipatterns.
• Engineer mitigations for subcategories of Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) and antipatterns that we observe based on trends.
• Delivers shift-left mitigations that are designed to eliminate / prevent subcategories of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns.
• Identify patterns of failure and Root-Cause Analysis through Machine Learning / ArtificiaI Intelligence prediction for components
• Understand the most important subcategories of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns observed through ongoing trend analysis.
• Identifying the top Root-Cause Analysis and antipattern categories based on trends.
• Identifying representative subcategories for Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns for which mitigation Research & Development should be pursued.
• Measuring the impact of mitigations that have been implemented in terms of trend data.
• Analyzing Root-Cause Analysis and antipattern trends that are being observed from incidents, red team ops, and internal / external vulnerability reports.
• Collaborate with other researchers, coordinators, and developers to improve the protection capabilities of the products research, design, and develop shift-left mitigations for subcategories of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns, such as in the form of static analysis rules, dynamic analysis rules, platform changes, and so on.
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Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect