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.

　　Microsoft Defender Agent Group is building an industry leading security product that is deployed in tens of millions of devices: Windows, Windows Server, macOS and all common Linux enterprise distributions. The group puts an emphasis on top-notch engineering and quality to deliver innovative sensors and a highly stable platform. Microsoft Defender Security Research team is a global team of security researchers, advanced threat hunters, and agile malware responders at the forefront of protecting the Microsoft ecosystem from emerging security threats. Our research powers protection in products like Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Office 365, Azure, and more. We are an industry leading threat research lab that does in-depth threat research with threats and exploits to help keep our customers safe. If you are a Principal Security Researcher who is looking to make significant impact in the security industry, we would love to talk to you! Are you interested in radically improving the security of Microsoft’s products? Do you want to work on cutting edge malware analysis systems? Are you committed to helping Microsoft customers keep their computer’s secure and combating evolving malware threats? We are looking for a Principal Security Researcher with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with tests and maintainability.  

　　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

　　Conduct Advanced Security Research: You will lead groundbreaking research into critical security areas, collaborate across disciplines, and align innovative solutions with our strategic goals.

　　Master Analytical Problem-Solving: We expect you to analyze complex security challenges, influence organizational best practices, and lead in threat mitigation and design improvement.

　　Drive Solution Generation and Strategic Mitigation: Your role involves identifying and resolving significant security issues, developing strategic mitigations, and architecting solutions in collaboration with various teams.

　　Orchestrate and Collaborate Effectively: You should have experience in fostering cross-group coordination, leading large-scale security analyses, and managing incident responses with a focus on collaboration and consensus-building.

　　Demonstrate Industry Leadership: We look for candidates who actively contribute to industry advancements, share expertise, mentor others, and integrate emerging technologies and methods into security practices.

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications

　　7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection

　　OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

　　Development skills with C, C++, C# and scripting languages (Python/Powershell)

　　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

　　8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection

　　OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

　　Reverse Engineering skills: familiar with debuggers, disassemblers, network protocols, file formats, sandboxes, hardware/firmware internals, software communication mechanisms

　　Knowledge of Windows operating system internals and modern security problems

　　Cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security or detection improvements.

　　Security Research IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

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