Senior Security Researcher - Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

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.

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, counter advanced breaches and data intrusions within their networks and manage their security posture. Our Israeli research team is looking for a security researcher who can help our customers, of all sizes, improve their security and protect them from cyber threats. We’re developing new ways to manage vulnerabilities, using the most advanced technology.

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 security vulnerabilities, attackers’ techniques and anomalous patterns.
• Explore massive amounts of data to come up with new security management 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 collectors, implement discovery and detection logics and validate their effectiveness using a data-driven approach.
• Collaborate with other teams across Microsoft and come up with innovative ideas which should be part of future versions of the product.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security research.
• Proficiency in developing C# / Python.
• Experience with delivering a feature end to end (research / coding, testing, maintenance)
• Excellent cross-group and interpersonal skills
• Team player, able to drive and facilitate projects across disciplines
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or relevant practical experience (e.g. service in elite technology unit in IDF)
  
  

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Offensive security research experience
• Vulnerability analysis and deep understanding of their workarounds and mitigations
• Experience in big data analysis, and data-driven research
• Management experience
• Industry recognized author of security research papers, blogs, or books
  
  

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