Microsoft Security Researcher II - CTJ TS/SCI 

United States, Washington 

630711600

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

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:

• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 3+ years of security research
• proficiency in developing in C#/Python
• Experience leading a feature end-to-end (design, coding, testing, maintenance)
• Demonstarted cross-group collaboration

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

• Analyze and research network protocols, which can be used to classify network devices and to identify traffic anomalies.
• Collaborate with multiple product teams to design sensors, implement detection ideas and validate their effectiveness using a data-driven approach.
• Work together with the different engineering teams to deliver the code to support the research findings.
• Collaborate with other teams across Microsoft and come up with innovative ideas which should be part of future versions of the product