5 days ago
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate breach learnings and threat-actor behaviors into deterministic controls that prevent recurring incidents across multiple services.
- Design platform-level enforcement mechanisms that eliminate vulnerability classes without requiring service-by-service remediation.
- Develop reusable security-prevention frameworks and paved-path security standards.
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate preventative controls into production while maintaining service reliability.
- Enable rapid deployment of security countermeasures across Microsoft’s identity fleet.
- Analyze signals from vulnerability research, threat intelligence, and security-risk posture monitoring.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or a related field plus 1+ year of relevant experience; or bachelor’s degree in one of these fields plus 2+ years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security-screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: doctorate or master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience, or bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 3+ years of experience in SOC detection, threat analytics, SIEM, IT, or operations incident response.
- Understanding of identity and access technologies, including authentication and authorization protocols, tokens, certificates/PKI, and MFA.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is available through Microsoft’s careers site.
- The position requires a Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.
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About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.