Microsoft Principal Security Researcher 

United Kingdom, England 

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• Expert level experience working on and leading cutting-edge cyber security research projects
• Proficient building security capabilities and tooling in at least one programming language, such as Python, C#, C++
• Experience working with large datasets for the purpose of security research, using a query language such as SQL or KQL – and a passion for security data!
• Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security and technical improvements

Other RequirementsAbility 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.
• Experience of Identity, Cloud Apps and Microsoft Cloud related security research, attacks, threat hunting and detection
• Experience building threat detection logic for security products
• Experience writing production-quality code and working on production systems, ideally in C# and running on Kubernetes

• Harness your deep security research background and expertise to design and build new detection capabilities for a range of security products – driven by threat intelligence.
• Discover new threat actor activity and build automations based on a deep understanding of product internals and telemetry.