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Microsoft Senior Security Researcher Taiwan, Taoyuan City 114568236
17.07.2025
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Required/minimum qualifications
- Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
- 3+ years of experience investigating and responding to security incidents originating from the web or email
- 3+ years of experience querying and analyzing large datasets (e.g. SQL, Python, KQL/Azure Data Explorer, Excel, PowerBI, etc.)
- Willingness to cover a periodic on-call rotation for the team.
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.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
- Yara, RegEx, or comparable rule-writing experience
- Insatiable curiosity to learn about attacker patterns and behaviors, with a drive to build innovative detections and protections.
- Understand the cyber kill chain, especially attack scenarios originating from email or web sites.
- Understand email headers, email/web security protocols, and related analysis tools.
- Experience responding to customer escalations and reporting investigative findings.
- Programming / software development lifecycle experience
- Experience with sandbox technologies and malware analysis
- Experience working through ambiguity to drive innovations in detections, monitoring, and internal team processes.
- Solid understanding of attacker tradecraft associated with email and web-based threats.
- Broad, general, familiarity with the threat landscape affecting our customers.
- Experience building automated reports, alerting, workflows, and/or business intelligence solutions (PowerBI).
- Ability to use data to “tell a story” and influence decision-making.
- Experience creating, using, or contributing to the development and validation of machine learning models.
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 July 22, 2025.
Responsibilities
- Prototyping new approachesto improve detections, create or augment intelligence workflows, and/or streamline security operations; to include experimentation, testing, and deploying your own POCs while also working cross-functionally to support team-wide and organization-wide innovation projects.
- Responding to escalations to resolve detection effectiveness issues (misclassified spam/phish and false positives) Authoring rules and creating new ML features to thwart evolving email-based attacks.
- Conducting deep research on attacker campaigns and techniques to support durable detection investments and improve customer experience.
- Engaging and collaborating with diverse partner teams to drive great customer experiences and ensure holistic protection across the Microsoft Security stack.
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