Microsoft Principal Security Research Manager 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

983800464

We are looking for a motivated Leader to manage a team of highly skilled security researchers who also is adept at vulnerability research to join our team.

• As part of the MSRC, our team is responsible for analyzing vulnerabilities found in Microsoft’s products and services to determine their root cause, severity, and security impact.
• This analysis plays a critical role in shaping the security updates that are deployed to customers. The knowledge that we gain from analyzing vulnerabilities also informs the offensive and defensive security research performed by our team.
• As part of this research, our team works collaboratively with many teams across Microsoft to investigate, develop, and deploy security features that help discover and mitigate the biggest threats to customers.
• Our team is passionate about a range of topics including vulnerability discovery & automation, safer programming languages, exploit and vulnerability mitigations, software sandboxes, penetration testing & red teaming, exploit development, operating systems security (Windows and Linux), virtualization security, cloud services security, OWASP top 10, and hardware vulnerabilities and mitigations.
• This particular role is focused on the online services (OLS), e.g. cloud and web bugs.
• This is a unique opportunity to have a positive impact on improving safety for customers around the world and to work on challenging real-world security problems as part of a supportive and collaborative team.

• 10+ years of experience in vulnerability/exploits research and mitigation
• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field and experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
• Have a hands-on approach to technical leadership in setting the engineering direction for the team with sound design and development best practices.
• Drive engineering roadmaps, leading teams, mentoring, and helping others grow.
• Own career development of team through active coaching.
• Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
• Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.
• Have a hands-on approach to technical leadership in setting the engineering direction for the team with sound design and development best practices.
• Drive engineering roadmaps, leading teams, mentoring, and helping others grow.
• Own career development of team through active coaching.
• Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
• Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.
• In-depth experience in working as a security engineer
• Experience in identifying common vulnerability types (OWASP top 10, CWE top 25) in software and services written in C#, JavaScript/HTML, C++, C, etc
• Ability to debug and root cause vulnerabilities in software, services, and cloud platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Public track record of vulnerability research and discovery
• Familiarity with cloud service architectures (Azure etc), design, and implementations
• Familiarity with operating system internals for Windows and/or Linux Familiarity with exploitation techniques and mitigations

• Lead and manage a team of security researchers to Analyzing vulnerabilities in software and services to determine their root cause, severity, and security impact Identifying variants of vulnerabilities and discovering new vulnerabilities.
• Lead the team while also collaborating with stakeholders in peer teams and organizations to build tools and invent new approaches to automate the discovery & analysis of vulnerabilities
• Influence and align org vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.
• Analyzing trends in vulnerabilities being discovered to spot patterns
• Researching, developing, and deploying mitigations for common patterns of vulnerabilities
• Performing penetration testing, offensive security research, and red teaming activities
• Engaging with and contributing knowledge back to the security research community
• Mentoring and contributing to the growth of individuals within the team and across Microsoft
• Supporting a healthy and inclusive culture within the team and across Microsoft
• Own career development of team through active coaching.
• Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
• Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.
• Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
• Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.