Principal Security Engineer

4 weeks ago


Ottawa, Canada Microsoft Full time

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.

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) Signals Engineering’s mission is to enhance research, detection and protection against attacks on Microsoft & customers by codifying Microsoft Security Research’s analytical expertise at-scale, generating signals to extend our global threat coverage and advanced collaboration with Microsoft product, research and defender teams. Our threat intelligence analysts provide unique insights on threats to protect Microsoft and our customers, underpinned by at-scale analysis of billions of security signals. We are looking for an innovative "Principal Security Engineer" who understands the threat landscape and can translate security insights from our analysts into real-world code processing a range of threat intelligence-related signals. You will work closely with analysts and other security researchers to deliver intelligence-focused solutions providing additional data, artefacts, and analysis to enable our adversary pursuit mission.

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 Qualifications:

7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detectionOR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field. 2+ years of knowledge of post-breach compromise domain – including methods for reconnaissance, persistence, lateral movement and data exfiltration across both on-premises and cloud environments 4+ years of experience in testing, deploying and supporting large real-time scale services on Azure, AWS or similar environments


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.

Preferred Qualifications:

8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detectionOR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field. 10+ years development experience with skills in a mix of C/C++, C# and scripting languages (Python/PowerShell/JS)

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

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Experience in working with open-source projects and associated developer communities.

Big data, data pipelines and visualization Azure DevOps or similar cloud-based development experience

Security Research IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $135,800 - CAD $253,000 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 21, 2024.



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Responsibilities

• Accelerate our analysts’ insights by building innovative analysis tooling run at cloud scale

• Work with Threat Intelligence Analysts to maintain and improve their automated workflows

• Work with other internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that advance defenders’ understanding of key threats

• Provide technical leadership across features, projects, service fundamentals, and tools

• Work across multiple teams in Microsoft, create clarity, decompose complex problems in smaller manageable workstreams, and harness the energy of the team to solve them.

Embody ourand

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

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