Principal Security Research Manager

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) have unique optics into end-to-end attacks and how different stages manifest across our telemetry: we join the dots and show the art of the possible. The threat intelligence research team research and develop new capability to detect attacks and threat actors through novel correlation and analysis ideas. We are looking for a manager to lead a team of security focussed researchers to automate the generation of threat intelligence and then achieve global impact by partnering across the company to disrupt attacks with it.  

You are a research leader in the cyber security domain. You have a track record of successful security research delivery that you will use to direct your team to tackle hard problems related to the discovery of threat actors targeting Microsoft and our customers. You are results-driven, with a focus on delivering value to start protecting customers early, and an iterative approach for incremental improvements thereafter. You enjoy finding creative ways to leverage new technologies and have a track record in converting research to measurable business impact. 

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of security and threat-focused researchers. 

• Harness your team’s deep security research expertise to design and build new detection and protection capabilities driven by threat intelligence and apply these to protect Microsoft and our customers. 

• Enable your team to discover new threat actor activity and build automations based on a deep understanding of product internals and telemetry. 

• Partner across internal and external teams to forge new relationships that advance defenders’ understanding of key threats and harness state of the art protection capabilities. 

• Provide technical leadership across features, projects, service fundamentals, and tools.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other quantitative field
- Extensive experience in a security research or security engineering role.
- Demonstrated success leading a security research team.
- Proven ability to relate technical research advances and insights to business impact.

- Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security and technical improvements. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

- Understanding of attacker techniques and experience in tracking threat actors. 
- Engineering experience in the cyber security domain.
- Experience in the analysis of cloud scale datasets.

#MSTIC #MSFTSecurity 

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. 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.