Microsoft Senior Security Researcher 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

160203996

We are looking for a motivated Security Researcher II to join our team.

• As part of the MSRC, our team is responsible for analyzing vulnerabilities found in Microsoft’s products and services to determine their root cause, severity, and security impact.
• This analysis plays a critical role in shaping the security updates that are deployed to customers. The knowledge that we gain from analyzing vulnerabilities also informs the offensive and defensive security research performed by our team.
• As part of this research, our team works collaboratively with many teams across Microsoft to investigate, develop, and deploy security features that help discover and mitigate the biggest threats to customers.
• Our team is passionate about a range of topics including vulnerability discovery & automation, safer programming languages, exploit and vulnerability mitigations, software sandboxes, penetration testing & red teaming, exploit development, operating systems security (Windows and Linux), virtualization security, cloud services security, OWASP top 10, and hardware vulnerabilities and mitigations.
• This particular role is focused on the online services (OLS), e.g. cloud and web bugs.
• This is a unique opportunity to have a positive impact on improving safety for customers around the world and to work on challenging real-world security problems as part of a supportive and collaborative team.

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field andexperience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing,modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
• In-depthexperience in working asasecurity engineer
• Experience inidentifyingcommon vulnerability types (OWASP top 10, CWE top 25) in software and services written in C#, JavaScript/HTML, C++, C, etc
• Ability to debug and root cause vulnerabilities in software, services, and cloud platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Public track record of vulnerability research and discovery
• Familiarity with cloud service architectures (Azure etc), design, and implementations
• Familiarity with operating system internals for Windows and/or Linux Familiarity with exploitation techniques and mitigations

• Analyzingvulnerabilities in software and services to determine their root cause, severity, and security impact Identifying variants of vulnerabilities and discovering new vulnerabilities
• Building tools and inventing new approaches to automate the discovery & analysis of vulnerabilities
• Analyzingtrends in vulnerabilities being discovered to spot patterns
• Researching, developing, and deploying mitigations for common patterns of vulnerabilities
• Performing penetration testing, offensive security research, and red teaming activities
• Engaging with and contributing knowledge back to the security research community
• Mentoring and contributing to the growth of individuals within the team and across Microsoft
• Supporting a healthy and inclusive culture within the team and across Microsoft