Microsoft Security Researcher II 

United States, Washington 

826765769

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years experience in Computer security industry experience with knowledge of threat hunting, incident response and security operations.
• 2+ years experience in analyzing security incidents and malware at scale with systems like Az Data Lake, Az Synapse, SQL, Kusto etc.
• 1+ years experience applying Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies to improve protection features and automate researcher workflows

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber-security, and/or anomaly detection
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years experience in coding in C# / Python
• Experience in conducting research data studies, including ability to work with big data to drive improvements with engineering teams.
• Experience with Azure Data Factories, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps pipelines, Jupyter notebooks.
• Experience with security operation, automation and response (SOAR) technologies that span investigation and response automation across diverse security tool integration.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 25th, 2024.

• Identify & incubate proof-of-concepts leveraging your security research background and Generative AI technologies to help assist and scale threat research related tasks.
• Learn about and counter the most pressing cyber threats that our customers face
• Collaborate with partner Research and Data Science teams to bring new ideas and technology to customers.
• Drive research process and tooling improvements discovered through the process of threat research to enable automated protection, combining alerts and signals from across the Security ecosystem.