Principal Security Researcher

4 weeks ago

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Microsoft Canada Full time
Job Overview

Microsoft Canada is seeking a highly skilled Principal Security Researcher to join our Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC). As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for designing and building new detection capabilities driven by threat intelligence to protect both Microsoft and our customers.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of security product and platform internals, as well as experience working with large datasets for security research. You will be working closely with our threat intelligence analyst community to build new insights and automate tracking of threat actors.

We are looking for a talented individual with a strong background in security research, who can bring their expertise to our team and help us tackle hard problems related to the discovery of threat actors targeting Microsoft and our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and build new detection capabilities driven by threat intelligence
  • Discover new threat actor activity and build automations based on a deep understanding of product internals and telemetry

Requirements:

  • Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
  • 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

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
  • Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security and technical improvements

Compensation: The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $135,800 - CAD $253,000 per year.

Find additional pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

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