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Posted date: Oct 09, 2025
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Category: Security Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $132,300
Range: $84,200 - $180,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.Do you have a passion for helping Microsoft’s clients defend themselves against targeted exploitation?
Are you interested in being intimately involved in the latest, cutting-edge developments in the security industry and having a direct impact on the security of all Microsoft customers?
Do you want to be on the front lines of helping our customers go toe-to-toe against advanced adversaries?
Are you interested in a fast-paced job full of new opportunities?
If so, we encourage you to explore the Security Researcher role for the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage (GHOST) team!
We are looking for a Security Researcher with an analytical background to join our team to perform threat hunting, assist with investigations, develop threat intelligence, and to cultivate investigation best practices into Microsoft tooling and products. Researchers will support a global team to identify and catalog new attacker TTPs, victims, and deliver customer notifications to protect worldwide enterprise customers and empower customers to protect themselves via constantly improving Microsoft products.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
This role is part of a collaborative team, assisting our customers with:
Performing deep analysis of attacker activity in on-premises and cloud environmentsIdentifying potential threats, allowing for proactive defense before an actual incidentProviding recommendations to improve customers’ cybersecurity posture going forward and performing threat intelligence knowledge transfer to prepare customers to defend against today’s threat landscapeDriving product and tooling improvements by conveying learnings from threat hunting and incident response at scale to engineering partner teamsIdentifying, prioritizing, and targeting complex security issues that cause negative impact to customers. Creating and driving adoption of relevant mitigations and providing proactive guidanceWorking with others to synthesize research findings into recommendations for mitigation of security issues. Sharing across teams. Driving change within team based on research findings.
Qualifications
Required QualificationsBachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related fieldOR 1+ year(s) experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and/or anomaly detection.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.Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
Preferred qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related fieldOR 2+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.Security Research IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 per year.
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 October 14th, 2025.
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