Security Researcher II

Overview

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.

Be a part of the team that is instrumental in constructing one of Microsoft's most exciting security solutions, and work on an innovative new product. In an era of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, the Microsoft Security Exposure Management security suite has emerged as a vital tool for enterprises, enabling them to identify, scrutinize, counter advanced breaches and data intrusions within their networks and manage their security posture.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Security Researcher II, who enjoys unraveling the mysteries and unique patterns of corporate computing environments and attackers’ techniques in Microsoft’s enormous scale of signals and security mechanisms, to join our Israeli research team and help provide our customers with tools to improve their security posture. The job includes performing both low level and high-level research of attackers’ techniques, security mechanism and controls, and data analysis over various types of telemetries.

• Analyze and research security controls, attackers’ techniques and anomalous patterns
• Explore massive amounts of data to come up with new security posture insights, which can then be translated into security recommendations for our customers
• Work together with the different engineering teams to develop the code to support the research findings
• Collaborate with multiple product teams to design sensors, implement discovery & detection logics and validate their effectiveness using a data-driven approach
• Collaborate with data science teams to understand and identify detection gaps, capabilities, assumptions and improvements
• Collaborate with other teams across Microsoft and come up with innovative ideas which should be part of future versions of the product

Qualifications

• You have at least 4+ years of experience in security research, with a passion for understanding how things break and how to make them stronger.
• Experience skills in C, Python, or .NET, and the ability to turn research insights into high-quality production code.
• Experience leading features end-to-end from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and long-term ownership.
• You have B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience (including service in elite technology units).

Preferred Qualifications

• The ability to collaborate effectively across teams and disciplines, with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in data analysis and data-driven research methodologies.
• A track record of contributing to the security community through research papers, blog posts, talks, or other publications.

Key skills/competency

• Security Research
• Cyber Security
• Threat Detection
• Data Analysis
• Security Posture
• Attack Techniques
• C, Python, .NET
• Product Development
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Telemetry Analysis