Be a part of the team that is instrumental in constructing one of Microsoft's most exciting security solutions, and work on an innovative new product. In an era of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, the Microsoft 365 Defender security suite has emerged as a vital tool for enterprises, enabling them to identify, scrutinize, counter advanced breaches and data intrusions within their networks and manage their security posture.
We are seeking a security researcher, who enjoys unraveling the mysteries and unique patterns of corporate computing environments and attackers’ techniques in Microsoft’s enormous scale of signals and security mechanisms, to join our Israeli research team and help provide our customers with tools to improve their security posture. The job includes performing both low level and high-level research of attackers’ techniques, security mechanism and controls, and data analysis over various types of telemetries.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and research security controls, attackers’ techniques and anomalous patterns.
- Explore massive amounts of data to come up with new security posture insights, which can then be translated into security recommendations for our customers.
- Work together with the different engineering teams to develop the code to support the research findings.
- Collaborate with multiple product teams to design sensors, implement discovery & detection logics and validate their effectiveness using a data-driven approach.
- Collaborate with data science teams to understand and identify detection gaps, capabilities, assumptions and improvements.
- Collaborate with other teams across Microsoft and come up with innovative ideas which should be part of future versions of the product.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of security research.
- Proficiency in developing C# / Python.
- Experience with leading a feature end to end (design, coding, testing, maintenance)
- Excellent cross-group and interpersonal skills
- Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or relevant practical experience (e.g. service in elite technology unit in IDF)
Other Requirements
- Offensive security research experience
- Experience in data analysis, and data-driven research
- Management experience
- Industry recognized author of security research papers, blogs, or books
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