What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Security Researcher position at Microsoft Power Platform Community?
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. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity.
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. 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. 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.
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.
We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher with experience in analyzing and summarizing cyber security threats, contextualizing and writing customer-facing content on cyber security threats, and adapting to changing focus as the threat landscape changes.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher with experience in analyzing and summarizing cyber security threats, contextualizing and writing customer-facing content on cyber security threats, with a focus on cybercrime threats, and adapting to changing focus as the threat landscape changes.
Responsibilities Include
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
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 April 9, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
#MSTIC #MSFTSecurity
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. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity.
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. 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. 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.
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.
We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher with experience in analyzing and summarizing cyber security threats, contextualizing and writing customer-facing content on cyber security threats, and adapting to changing focus as the threat landscape changes.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher with experience in analyzing and summarizing cyber security threats, contextualizing and writing customer-facing content on cyber security threats, with a focus on cybercrime threats, and adapting to changing focus as the threat landscape changes.
Responsibilities Include
- Researching, analyzing, and contextualizing cybercrime related threat actor, tool, technique and vulnerability related threat intelligence.
- Writing customer-facing profiles on the latest cybercrime threats.
- Creating briefings and briefing internal and external teams on the latest security threats.
- Adapting your writing style to create new content based on business needs and customer feedback.
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 year's experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
- OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
- 6 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.
- Identifies, conducts, and supports others in conducting research into critical security areas, such as cybercrime, current attacks, adversary tracking, and the broader cyber security landscape.
- Partners cross-functionally (e.g., across disciplines, teams, or security versus non-security) research the latest attacks.
- Advocates priorities and solicits feedback and evaluates results to incorporate into future research.
- Demonstrates judgment in identifying projects and priorities.
- Understands interplay across Microsoft technologies and how they give rise to attacker opportunities.
- Works with others to synthesize research findings into recommendations for mitigation of security issues.
- Drives change within team based on research findings.
- Contributes to customer-facing products and professional community through publications.
- Experience with research and analyzing cybercrime threats and actors, including phishing, commodity malware, and ransomware.
- Experience writing customer-facing threat intelligence products.
- Experience writing on threat actors and their activities, malicious tools, common techniques, and vulnerabilities.
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 April 9, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
#MSTIC #MSFTSecurity
Salary : $117,200 - $229,200
