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Our team is looking for a Security Research II to join us. 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.

Come and be part of the team building one of Microsoft’s most exciting security products, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. As cyber-attacks have become more sophisticated, MDE helps enterprises detect, investigate, and automatically disrupt advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks.  Our research team brings knowledge of the attacker landscape and tradecraft to create innovations necessary to uncover and protect against even the most well-funded attacker. We are seeking a self-driven security researcher who is interested in making a meaningful impact in the security industry.

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

• Identify & incubate proof-of-concepts leveraging your security research background and Generative AI technologies to help assist and scale threat research related tasks.

• Learn about and counter the most pressing cyber threats that our customers face

• Collaborate with partner Research and Data Science teams to bring new ideas and technology to customers.

• Drive research process and tooling improvements discovered through the process of threat research to enable automated protection, combining alerts and signals from across the Security ecosystem.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

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

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years experience in Computer security industry experience with knowledge of threat hunting, incident response and security operations.

• 2+ years experience in analyzing security incidents and malware at scale with systems like Az Data Lake, Az Synapse, SQL, Kusto etc.

• 1+ years experience applying Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies to improve protection features and automate researcher workflows

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

• 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber-security, and/or anomaly detection

• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years experience in coding in C# / Python

• Experience in conducting research data studies, including ability to work with big data to drive improvements with engineering teams.

• Experience with Azure Data Factories, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps pipelines, Jupyter notebooks.

• Experience with security operation, automation and response (SOAR) technologies that span investigation and response automation across diverse security tool integration.

Security Research IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 25th, 2024.

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