Principal Security Researcher

at  Microsoft Canada

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.
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) have unique optics into end-to-end attacks and how different stages manifest across our telemetry: we join the dots and show the art of the possible. The Threat Intelligence Research team research and develop new capability to detect attacks and threat actors through novel correlation and analysis ideas. We automate the generation of Threat Intelligence, and then achieve global impact by partnering across the company to connect it to customer-facing security solutions. We’re recruiting a “Principal Security Researcher " with deep expertise and a track record of successful security research delivery to tackle hard problems related to the discovery of threat actors targeting Microsoft and our customers. You’ll be working to analyze vast amounts of telemetry from different products then designing and prototyping protections for millions of customers. You will achieve this by working closely with the threat intelligence analyst community to build new insights and automate tracking of threat actors through your deep expertise in security product and platform internals. Security Research is a broad field, and we welcome interest from accomplished security researchers with a wide variety of prior expertise. Our primary focus is on threat intelligence-based detection through analysis of telemetry sent to the cloud or generated by internal cloud services - so a desire to work inside those systems at significant scale is essential.
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.
Qualifications

REQUIRED/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
OR 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
7+ years experience working on and leading cutting-edge cyber security research projects
5+ years experience building security capabilities and tooling in at least one programming language, such as Python, C#, C++
5+ years of experience writing production-quality code and working on production systems

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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience of Identity, Cloud Apps and Microsoft Cloud related security research, attacks, threat hunting and detection
Experience building threat detection logic for security products
Experience working with large datasets for the purpose of security research, using a query language such as SQL or KQL - and a passion for security data!
Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security and technical improvements.
Security Research IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $135,800 - CAD $253,000 per year.

• Harness your deep security research background and expertise to design and build new detection capabilities driven by threat intelligence and apply these to protect both Microsoft and customers.
• Discover new threat actor activity and build automations based on a deep understanding of product internals and telemetry