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Microsoft Senior Security Researcher 
United States, Washington 
181759117

16.07.2024
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
  • 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
    • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection

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

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Single reqs: Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Jiily 18, 2024.


Responsibilities
  • Research and document the data center threat landscape.
  • Investigate large-scale telemetry data from Azure, postmortem attacks (including from red team operations),
  • Lead data driven experiments, understand attacker tactics and techniques, and develop strategies to prevent similar attacks in the future.
  • Code, implement, and guide others to create production-level attack detections.
  • Use attack simulation frameworks to develop end-to-end campaigns to evaluate defensive capabilities.
  • Threat hunting to discover real world advanced attacks together with designing and implementing automated protection solutions.
  • Collaborate closely with security researchers, engineers, data scientists, and product managers to design and implement effective security solutions.
  • Participate and in planning on how we should measure the most pressing threats to the Azure environment and guiding others in the creation and improvement of these metrics.
  • Work with other teams to understand how we could leverage their product data to solve our most important Azure protection problems.
  • Other
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