Senior Security Researcher
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 15, 2024 | |
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OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Security Researcher to join our team! 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. Our team accelerates threat prevention efforts by automating detection, analysis, and response at scale and as close to discovery as possible. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign solutions for optimizing analyses of (& reverse engineering) entities, telemetry and behavioral data and advance state-of-the-art of threat detection, protection and remediation.Create actionable insights and proof-of-concepts from analysis to drive develop durable detection & prevention strategies across the entire kill-chain, highlight protection gaps and drive product improvements.Protects tools, techniques, information, and results of security practices; assesses efficacy of operational security (e.g., red-on-red pen testing). Develops new techniques to evaluate operational security; teaches others to master techniques.Identifies, prioritizes, and targets complex security issues that cause negative impact to customers. Creates and drives adoption of relevant mitigations. Suggests and drives appropriate guidance, models, response, and remediation for issues. Drives program and process of mitigation (e.g., automation).Work with internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that help mature the product and derive better insightsCondense findings and communicate these verbally and in writing to researchers, developers and engineers through visualizations conveying clear, concise and powerful messages | |