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Microsoft Azure is the foundation for cloud workloads supporting millions of customers across a vast array of cloud native and heterogeneous architectures. Attackers are relentless in their attempts to find a way to compromise all manner of computing infrastructure, and cloud services such as Azure are also in their crosshairs. Do you want to take a major leadership role in a team dedicated to protecting Azure from sophisticated attackers?

At Microsoft Security, our mission is to make the world a safer place for all.  The Threat Protection Research Team is a global, multidisciplinary organization of engineers, data scientists, security researchers, and program managers. With billions of signals from millions of endpoints, we have an unparalleled view of the threat landscape, enabling us to develop deep expertise in attacker techniques and use that knowledge along with the latest technology to stop it. 

We are looking for a Principal Security Research Manager to lead a team dedicated to detecting attacks on Azure. This person should have a deep understanding of what it means to run a large-scale, operational organization supporting millions of customers, and the accountability that comes with it. This team balance the fast-paced demand of on-call responsibilities and constant adjustment to adversaries with product innovation, team career growth, and work life balance. A successful leader in this role balances these competing demands while fostering cross-organizational collaboration to build and deliver on the strategic vision for defending Azure.  Are you up for this challenge? 

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.

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.

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Responsibilities

People Management  

• Model Microsoft values and actively drive team culture improvements. 

• Connect business objectives with the right talent on the team. Help the team set clear goals and adapt when the business or environmental factors change course. 

• Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations and invest in their growth. 

Strategy and Innovation  

• Develop the strategic vision for how we leverageall the tools at our disposal (including the latest developments in AI) to improve product effectiveness to meet business goals andinfluence product and business group decisions. 

• Cultivate relationships between yourself and your team across the organization to champion the adoption of innovative solutions that deliver business impact. 

Operational Excellence  

• Help team align work with business goals, document team plans, experimentation results, work in progress and completed. 

• Ensure team members are ready for on-call rotation. 

• Hold team accountable for quality monitoring, root cause analysis, and implementation of fixes, process or documentation improvements based on learnings. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

• OR 4+ years experience in shipping and supporting large-scale data science or threat research products, features, or content. 

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

• 3+ years people management experience.

• 5+ years combined experience in data science and fraud/security – foundational knowledge of both data science and working in an adversarial space. 

• Experience translating complex business problems into prioritized, results-driven team objectives with ability to drive strategy alignment and impact through collaborative work across organizational boundaries, positively influence organizational culture and attract and retain great people.  

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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Security Research M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $304,200 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

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