Senior Security Researcher

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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.

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.

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.

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. We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher with experience managing technical cross-team cyber security programs.

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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• OR 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
• 2+ years of experience in threat intelligence.
• 2+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, product development.

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:

• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• OR 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
• Experience querying large data sets via Kusto Query Language (KQL), python, or other similar query languages.
• Experience developing dashboards and reporting on top of large data sets.

Security Research 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.

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 July 29, 2025.

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As a Senior Security Researcher, you will:

• Define and manage cyber threat intelligence initiatives to improve research and tooling in support of intelligence analysis and production.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with research, product, AI, and engineering teams to prioritize technical solutions supporting threat intelligence delivery.
• Analyze issues using multiple data sources to develop insights and support production and delivery of threat intelligence for consumers across Microsoft.
• Drive prioritization and task management of intelligence operations projects across all analysis teams.
• Use subject matter expertise to inform threat intelligence delivery strategy and threat intelligence-related AI and automation use cases.
• Translate tactical and operational consumer needs into requirements for product and engineering teams.
• Lead efforts to structure, curate, and standardize data sources to support global threat intelligence teams.