Job Openings Security Researcher II - CTJ - TS/SCI

About the job Security Researcher II - CTJ - TS/SCI

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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.

Join us as a Security Researcher II and be a part of the team that is instrumental in constructing one of Microsoft's most exciting security solutions. 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, and counter advanced breaches and data intrusions within their networks. At the core of this suite lies Microsoft Defender for Identity, which shields customers by offering insights and detections for identity attacks spanning on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

We are seeking a Security Researcher II who enjoys unraveling the mysteries and unique patterns of networking, authentication protocols and identity attacks, to join our Israeli research team and help provide our customers with the needed protection. The job includes performing low level research of user, device & cloud apps behaviors and numerous protocols, for the purpose of identifying the necessary optics and delivering detection logics. You will manage complex projects which require intimate familiarity with the identity security threat landscape and involve collaboration with partners across the Microsoft engineering and research teams.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and research network protocols, which can be used to classify network devices and to identify traffic anomalies.
  • Collaborate with multiple product teams to design sensors, implement detection ideas and validate their effectiveness using a data-driven approach.
  • Work together with the different engineering teams to deliver the code to support the research findings.
  • Collaborate with other teams across Microsoft and come up with innovative ideas which should be part of future versions of the product

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

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:

  • Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
  • Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

  • 3+ years of security research
  • proficiency in developing in C#/Python
  • Experience leading a feature end-to-end (design, coding, testing, maintenance)
  • Demonstarted cross-group collaboration

Security Research IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

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 November 8, 2024

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.