Microsoft Senior Security Researcher 

United States, Washington 

897173536

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
  • o OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years combined experience in cyber security and engineering - demonstrating foundational knowledge of a cloud computing platform and/or C#, Python development.
• 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
• 3+ years of experience querying and analyzing large datasets (e.g. SQL, Python, KQL/Azure Data Explorer, etc.).

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 background and 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
  • o OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• Solid understanding of attacker tradecraft associated with web and email-based threats,
• Experience developing and shipping tooling solutions for operational teams,
• Experience working across multiple product teams to deliver combined innovations and features,
• Experience translating complex business problems into relevant feature specifications and plans,
• Able to deliver impact through collaborative work across organizational boundaries, and
• Able to work in an agile environment balancing committed work with emerging innovative solutions.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 29, 2024.

• Create an ‘innovation pipeline’ to support tooling and researcher driven experiments into durable solutions.
• Support and maintain a healthy infrastructure to support experimentation.
• Guide and support researcher innovation through collaboration and technical excellence.
• Execute, evolve and champion the strategic vision for how we develop tools and prototypes to improve product and team effectiveness to meet business goals.
• Cultivate relationships between yourself and your team across the organization to influence the adoption of innovative solutions that deliver business impact.
• Respond to tooling outages and security alerts to maintain a healthy DevOps environment, and
• Troubleshoot and root cause issues in tool operations.