Principal Security Research Manager

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 Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) research team empowers security teams around the world to efficiently and effectively detect and respond to cyber-attacks. We achieve this by combining a deep understanding of threats- their objectives, tactics, and techniques; knowledge of the technologies that threats exploit; and fostering our researchers' curiosity and 'think like an attacker' mindset to constantly learn and adapt to a dynamic landscape. Security operation centers face a huge scale challenge where the difficulties of defending their environments increase over time while the resources available to them are always under threat. Our team leads the way in bringing Microsoft's security expertise to customers through AI technologies that quickly and automatically investigate and respond to both common and sophisticated threats. Our goal is to swiftly comprehend new and emerging threats, develop automated actions and investigation methods to protect customers all with a goal of helping security operations teams be as efficient as possible.

We are looking to hire a Principal Security Research Manager who will lead a team in the innovation of incident investigation and response solutions. You will leverage Microsoft’s security expertise and AI capabilities to enhance and scale the defensive abilities of our customers and their security operations centers to counter the persistent threats they face.

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

• Help define and execute a security research agenda and vision that is at the forefront of innovation in AI driven security.

• Guide a team of security researchers to collaboratively build practical solutions towards quantifiable impact.

• Collaborate closely with partner engineering and product management teams.

• Push the boundaries of AI platforms through innovation and partnership.

• Demonstrate leadership principles of model, coach, and care for team members.

• Foster diverse perspectives and inclusive behaviors.

•Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Qualifications - Required:

· 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.

o OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

· 1+ year(s) people management experience.

• Working experience designing, prototyping, and driving engineering requirements for threat protection systems.

• Robust experience hunting for and investigating security incidents at scale with one or more of the following: Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, SQL, Cosmos, Kusto, or similar systems.

Other Required Qualifications:

• Background Check: 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: 

• 3+ year of experience applying AI and LLM technologies to improve protection features and/or help automate SOC workflows.

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