Security Researcher

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. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is focused on discovering and tracking threats to customers. Create a more secure environment through the Secure Future Initiative. MSTIC focuses on reducing global harm and protecting Microsoft and its customers using threat intelligence.

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.

The mission of the MSTIC team is to make Microsoft threat intelligence the first place for authoritative, high-quality knowledge on threats. The MSTIC team provides context on the threats that impact customers and owns the single voice of threat intelligence for Microsoft through a central content source. The MSTIC team supports customer-facing services with threat intelligence fusion and customer-ready content. The team also supports the Microsoft Defender for Threat intelligence library content and public-facing content in the Microsoft Threat Intelligence blog.

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

We are looking for a Security Researcher with experiences analyzing and summarizing cyber security threats, contextualizing and writing customer-facing content on cyber security threats, and adapting to changing focus as the threat landscape changes.

Responsibilities include:

• Researching, analyzing, and contextualizing threat actor, tool, technique and vulnerability related threat intelligence.
• Writing customer-facing profiles on the latest cyber security threats.
• Creating briefings and briefing internal and external teams on the latest security threats.
• Adapting your writing style to create new content based on business needs and customer feedback.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, security operations, and/or IT operations, software development, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection. 
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Information technology, Computer Science, Mathematics. or related field.
• Experience with Identifying, conducting, and supporting others in conducting research into critical security areas, such as current attacks, adversary tracking, and the broader cyber security landscape. - Partners cross-functionally (e.g., across disciplines, teams, or security versus non-security) research the latest attacks.
• Experience in Advocating priorities.
• Experience in contributing to customer-facing products and professional community through publications.

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. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, security operations, and/or IT operations, software development, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection. 
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

• Experience writing customer-facing threat intelligence products.
• Experience writing on threat actors and their activities, malicious tools, common techniques, and vulnerabilities.

Security Research IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 November 25, 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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