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Posted date: Jul 08, 2025
Category: Security Engineering
Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 100% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
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.No matter how sophisticated attacker behaviors become, Microsoft 365 Defender will help enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks. The Microsoft Defender Experts (MDE) Team uses deep knowledge of the attacker landscape and rich telemetry from our sensors to perform root-cause analysis and generate custom alerts, ensuring that Microsoft 365 Defender customers are well equipped to quickly respond to human adversaries identified in their unique environments. Ensuring that no human adversary can operate silently begins with experts harnessing the powerful optics provided by Microsoft 365 Defender across the attacker kill-chain coupled with world-class detections.
The Microsoft Defender Experts (MDE) Team is looking for a Senior Threat Response Delivery Expert to join our detection and response group. We are looking for someone who is passionate about this work to help us harness the power of Microsoft’s trillions of security signals to quickly identify and report the latest human adversary behaviors, drive critical context-rich alerts, build new tools and automations in support of hunting objectives, and drive innovations for detecting advanced attacker tradecraft.
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.
Work directly with senior leaders of our customers’ security organizations as design partners on new cloud detection and response innovations, as well as ensure excellent customer satisfaction with our products and services.Partner with your team of Microsoft Threat Experts to provide deep research and analysis of threats impacting our customers.Work cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, and business leaders to innovate and deliver new security service offerings at a global scale. Investigate, analyze, and learn from security researchers, attackers, and real incidents to develop durable detection solutions/strategies across customer tools.Work with other internal and external teams to forge new and improved existing partnerships that help mature the products that support Defender Experts service offerings.Provide technical leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment and influence the organization.Other
Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required Quaifications:5+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and operations incident response
OR a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field4+ years of people/service delivery management experienceOR relevant experience demonstrating customer interaction/support delivery3+ years of experience leading a security function for a customer (i.e.: SOC manager, solution lead, security engineer)Other Requirements:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafterCitizenship & 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.Controlled Technology: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.Preferred Qualifications:
7+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.OR Master's Degree or Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field Knowledge of operating system internals and attack techniques in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android & iOS platformsExperience with data analysis and cyber threat investigations in SentinelKnowledge of kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and modern penetration testing techniquesKnowledge of major cloud and productivity platforms as well as identity systems and related security concernsExperience with curation of Threat Intelligence and delivering customer briefingsAbility to use data to 'tell a story'Experience with reverse engineering, digital forensics (DFIR) or incident response, or machine learning modelsExperience with offensive security including tools such as Metasploit, exploit development, Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT), and designing ways to breach enterprise networksAdditional advanced technical degrees or cyber security certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIACSecurity Operations Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
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