Microsoft Principal Security Researcher 

Canada, Ontario, Ottawa 

599409309

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• 7+ 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.
• 7+ years experience working on and leading cutting-edge cyber security research projects
• 5+ years experience building security capabilities and tooling in at least one programming language, such as Python, C#, C++
• 5+ years of experience writing production-quality code and working on production systems.

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:

• 8+ 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.

• 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!
• 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.

Security Research IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $135,800 - CAD $253,000 per year.

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• Harness your deep security research background and expertise to design and build new detection capabilities driven by threat intelligence and apply these to protect both Microsoft and customers.
• Discover new threat actor activity and build automations based on a deep understanding of product internals and telemetry.

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