Security Researcher II in NY USA

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We are seeking a Security Researcher II to join Microsoft Email Security Research Team to protect customers from advanced email-borne threats. You’ll be working collaboratively with Engineering, Threat Intelligence and Data Science teams to improve our defense-in-depth capabilities to thwart persistent threats. In addition, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development and improvement of the toolset and/or detection engines by adding new features and capabilities. Security Researcher II

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Responsibilities

  • Document and enrich the understanding of the threat landscape including attacker techniques, emerging trends, and patterns. Security Researcher II
  • Design and develop novel threat detection techniques or methodologies from creating proof-of-concept to productizing the solution. Security Researcher II
  • Write generic and durable threat detections based on Static and Dynamic detection engines. Security Researcher II
  • Conduct proactive and reactive threat hunting and identify detection issues such as misses or misclassifications from a large-scale dataset. Security Researcher II
  • Develop and maintain an effective monitoring and alerting to proactively identify and respond to emerging threat campaigns or detection anomalies. Security Researcher II
  • Deep dive investigation of customer’s detection problems and provide an effective and timely mitigation and resolutions. Security Researcher II
  • Develop and maintain incident response playbooks to improve process and team capabilities.
  • Build tools and automation to improve productivity.
  • Share learnings and knowledge through documentation, brownbag or team meetings to improve overall team’s expertise and capabilities. Security Researcher II
  • Availability and willingness to cover a periodic on-call rotation for the team. Security Researcher II

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Security Researcher II

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

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  • 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber-security, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

Security Research IC3 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 – $182,600 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 $120,900 – $198,600 per year. Security Researcher II

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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