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Microsoft · 2 days ago

Principal Security Researcher

Maine, United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$138K/yr - $267K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Maintaining a deep understanding of the evolving threat landscape and attack vectors affecting Teams customers

Prototyping solutions (either yourself or through others) and conducting analysis to validate ideas and adjust our strategy to prevent, detect, and disrupt attackers

Developing and orchestrating delivery of our security research, response, and customer protection strategy

Initiating and maintaining close collaboration with a diverse set of partner teams; and

As needed, respond to incidents and escalations, analyze campaigns, and take direct actions to protect customers and disrupt attackers.

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Software Development LifecycleCybersecurityAnomaly DetectionQuerying Large DatasetsLarge-scale ComputingPrototyping SolutionsSQLPython/JupyterKQL/Azure Data ExplorerMachine Learning ModelsCyber Kill ChainSecurity InformationEvent Management (SIEM)Endpoint DetectionResponse (EDR)RegexYARASocial Engineering CampaignsData Storytelling

Required

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.

3+ years experience working through ambiguity to prototype solutions and drive innovations in detections, monitoring, and internal team processes

3+ years experience querying and analyzing large datasets (e.g. SQL, Python/Jupyter, KQL/Azure Data Explorer, etc.)

Availability and willingness to cover a periodic on-call rotation or engage in incident response as needed.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Preferred

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

Ability to lead and influence change without hierarchical authority, partner effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders, and drive consensus.

Experience contributing to the development and validation of machine learning models.

Insatiable curiosity to learn about attacker patterns and behaviors, with a drive to build innovative end-to-end protection strategies.

Understand the cyber kill chain, especially attack scenarios originating from collaboration platforms, email, or web sites along with related security protocols and analysis tools.

Proficiency querying large datasets, conducting analysis, and creating automated alerting, monitoring, and/or investigation workflows. (e.g. SQL, Python/Jupyter, KQL/Azure Data Explorer, etc.)

Proficiency in using various security tools, including security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint detection and response (EDR), email security gateways, identity access management, network protection, and sandbox environments.

Experience creating and tuning detection rules using Regex, YARA or other pattern matching tools

Experience responding to customer escalations and reporting investigative findings.

Familiarity with social engineering campaigns affecting collaboration platforms as well as email and web products.

Ability to use data to 'tell a story' and influence decision-making.

Company

Microsoft

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