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Posted date: Nov 13, 2024
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Category: Security Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $183,700
Range: $117,200 - $250,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher to join our team! 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.Our team accelerates threat prevention efforts by automating detection, analysis, and response at scale and as close to discovery as possible.
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.
Design solutions for optimizing analyses of (& reverse engineering) entities, telemetry and behavioral data and advance state-of-the-art of threat detection, protection and remediation.Create actionable insights and proof-of-concepts from analysis to drive develop durable detection & prevention strategies across the entire kill-chain, highlight protection gaps and drive product improvements.Protects tools, techniques, information, and results of security practices; assesses efficacy of operational security (e.g., red-on-red pen testing). Develops new techniques to evaluate operational security; teaches others to master techniques.Identifies, prioritizes, and targets complex security issues that cause negative impact to customers. Creates and drives adoption of relevant mitigations. Suggests and drives appropriate guidance, models, response, and remediation for issues. Drives program and process of mitigation (e.g., automation).Work with internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that help mature the product and derive better insightsCondense findings and communicate these verbally and in writing to researchers, developers and engineers through visualizations conveying clear, concise and powerful messages
Qualifications
Qualifications - Required:5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detectionOR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
Qualifications - 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 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 detectionOR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/us-corporate-pay.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 4, 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.
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