Principal Security Researcher
Redmond, Washington
Employer: Microsoft
Industry: Security Engineering
Salary: $137600 per year
Job type: Full-Time
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
Does protecting over 1 billion customers and making the cyber world a better place sound exciting? Do you have what it takes to be part of one of the world's most crucial security monitoring and detection teams? Do you want to innovate and improve how Microsoft transforms learnings from Intel & incidents into actionable detection and automated processes? This may be an opportunity for you. Azure Security seeks motivated, experienced Principal Security Researcher to join our team. We are looking for someone who can dig into hard engineering problems to improve the core fundamentals of our systems, add critical and exciting new features, revolutionize how our engineers work day-to-day, and try new things like bringing the power of machine learning and statistical analysis at scale to solve these and other problems.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 9, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
#MSFT #Security #Research #SecurityEngineering
Does protecting over 1 billion customers and making the cyber world a better place sound exciting? Do you have what it takes to be part of one of the world's most crucial security monitoring and detection teams? Do you want to innovate and improve how Microsoft transforms learnings from Intel & incidents into actionable detection and automated processes? This may be an opportunity for you. Azure Security seeks motivated, experienced Principal Security Researcher to join our team. We are looking for someone who can dig into hard engineering problems to improve the core fundamentals of our systems, add critical and exciting new features, revolutionize how our engineers work day-to-day, and try new things like bringing the power of machine learning and statistical analysis at scale to solve these and other problems.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and conduct Post Incident Reviews (PIR)
- Work directly on security reviews, formidable & complex automation and remediation workflows across multiple antipatterns.
- Engineer mitigations for subcategories of Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) and antipatterns that we observe based on trends.
- Delivers shift-left mitigations that are designed to eliminate/prevent subcategories of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns.
- Identify patterns of failure and Root-Cause Analysis through Machine Learning / ArtificiaI Intelligence prediction for components
- Understand the most important subcategories of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns observed through ongoing trend analysis.
- Identifying the "top" Root-Cause Analysis and antipattern categories based on trends.
- Identifying representative subcategories for Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns for which mitigation Research & Development should be pursued.
- Measuring the impact of mitigations that have been implemented in terms of trend data.
- Analyzing Root-Cause Analysis and antipattern trends that are being observed from incidents, red team ops, and internal/external vulnerability reports.
- Collaborate with other researchers, coordinators, and developers to improve the protection capabilities of the products research, design, and develop shift-left mitigations for subcategories of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns, such as in the form of static analysis rules, dynamic analysis rules, platform changes, and so on.
- Other
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 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
- 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.
- 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, cloud security, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
- 5+ years of experience with Security subject matter knowledge capable of understanding the technical details of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns & Researcher
- Ability to dive into the technical differences and properties of Root-Cause Analysis and antipatterns.
- 1+ years of track record in identifying multiple new attack techniques in the Identity domainWorking knowledge of cloud service development, static analysis, and CI/CD.
- Deep understanding of security attack techniques used in real-world scenarios, spanning both large-scale and targeted attacks.
- Extensive published research and ability to collaborate across the research community.
- Proficiency in C# / Python / PowerShell development.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 9, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
#MSFT #Security #Research #SecurityEngineering
Created: 2024-08-22
Reference: 1727679
Country: United States
State: Washington
City: Redmond
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