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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 join our team! Email, chat, and the web are an integral part of our everyday lives. They are essential for communication and productivity; while also providing the primary ways cybercriminals exploit victims and infiltrate organizations. Attackers abuse these communication methods to steal identities through phishing, hold critical assets for ransom, inflict financial harm, and install malicious software. Do you want to join a team dedicated to protecting hundreds of millions of people from these threats? At Microsoft Security, our mission is to make the world a safer place for all. The Messaging and Web Security Research team is a global, multidisciplinary organization of engineers, data scientists, security researchers, and program managers. With an unparalleled view of the threat landscape, we develop deep expertise in attacker techniques and use that knowledge to fuel innovations using the latest technologies. We protect customers using Outlook.com, Microsoft Defender for O365, Microsoft Edge, and much more. We are seeking an experienced Senior Security Researcher with a deep technical and engineering skill to help our researchers and data scientists establish a culture of innovation on tools and capabilities. In this role, you will play a key role in driving technical projects to accelerate research, enhance and enrich understanding of the threat landscape, and improve protection. You’ll also research, investigate, and mitigate the latest threats; conduct deep research and experimentation on new durable protection strategies; and collaborate with a diverse team of data scientists, researchers, engineers, and product managers to protect a global customer base. Together, we are redefining messaging and web security using the latest technology, unparalleled data and intelligence systems, and a collaborative and inclusive team culture. Join us and make a difference in our mission to empower everyone to communicate with confidence and trust!

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

• Create an ‘innovation pipeline’ to support tooling and researcher driven experiments into durable solutions.

• Support and maintain a healthy infrastructure to support experimentation.

• Guide and support researcher innovation through collaboration and technical excellence.

• Execute, evolve and champion the strategic vision for how we develop tools and prototypes to improve product and team effectiveness to meet business goals.

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

• Respond to tooling outages and security alerts to maintain a healthy DevOps environment, and

• Troubleshoot and root cause issues in tool operations.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

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

• 6+ years combined experience in cyber security and engineering - demonstrating foundational knowledge of a cloud computing platform and/or C#, Python development.

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

• 3+ years of experience querying and analyzing large datasets (e.g. SQL, Python, KQL/Azure Data Explorer, etc.).

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

*Preferred Qualifications: *

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

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

• Solid understanding of attacker tradecraft associated with web and email-based threats,

• Experience developing and shipping tooling solutions for operational teams,

• Experience working across multiple product teams to deliver combined innovations and features,

• Experience translating complex business problems into relevant feature specifications and plans,

• Able to deliver impact through collaborative work across organizational boundaries, and

• Able to work in an agile environment balancing committed work with emerging innovative solutions.

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 29, 2024.

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