Principal Security Researcher

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.

We are seeking an innovative security researcher with experience in cloud and AI security to help build world-leading solutions that keep customers ahead of cyber threats. In this role, you will drive advanced research in AI and cloud security, deliver security solutions from posture management to runtime protection, and collaborate with top security experts, data scientists, and cross-functional teams at Microsoft. We value diversity and welcome candidates with different experiences and perspectives. If you are a team player and dedicated to developing products in partnership with customers, we invite you to consider joining our team.

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:

• Conduct data-driven research that produces new insights, theories, algorithms, and prototypes that advance Cloud and AI threat protection.
• Investigate, analyze, and learn from security researchers, attackers, and real incidents to develop durable protection strategies across the entire kill-chain.
• Demonstrate leadership in an exceptionally challenging and rewarding environment and influence the organization.
• Collaborate with multiple security research teams across Microsoft and work directly with senior leaders to protect Microsoft and its customers against threats.
• Work closely with product and engineering managers, as well as with leading data scientists and various experts to bring new technologies and mature them from conceptualization to product.
• Attract and cultivate future talents through various programs with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion.

 Required Qualifications:

• B.Sc./M.Sc./Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline or equivalent nonacademic experience
• 12+ years of industry experience.
• Strong understanding of cyber security.
• Experience in Cloud Security. 
• Excellent interpersonal' leadership, and mentoring skills and ability to drive clear cross-team understandings.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge in AI security (plus)

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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