Senior Security Researcher in Multiple Locations, Australia

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.

Come and be part of the team as a Senior Security Researcher building one of Microsoft’s most exciting security products, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE). As cyber-attacks have become more sophisticated, MDE helps enterprises detect, investigate, and automatically disrupt advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks.  From detecting and disrupting nation state actors to huge ransomware actors in action, our research team brings deep knowledge of the attacker landscape and tradecraft to create the innovations necessary to uncover and protect against even the most well-funded attacker. We are an industry leading threat research lab that responds to customer issues with malware and use cutting edge antimalware techniques to help keep our customers safe. If you are a self-driven, technically strong antimalware researcher who is passionate about having huge impact in the security industry, we would love to talk to you!

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Responsibilities

Conduct research and develop proofs of concept that help advance the state-of-the-art of threat analysis and protection.

○ Investigate, analyze, and learn from security researchers, attackers, and real incidents to develop durable detection solutions and strategies across the kill-chain.

○ Collaborate with partner research, data science and engineering teams to bring new ideas and technology to customers.

○ Drive innovation in methodologies and tooling to significantly boost efficiency and elevate quality of malware research.

○ Provide technical and cultural leadership to foster research innovation across the team.

Qualifications

Required / basic qualifications –

• Minimum5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection (OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field)

• 5+ years experience in computer security industry with knowledge of malware analysis/reverse engineering, threat hunting, incident response or security operations.

• 5+ years experience programming in Python, C#, C++ or Rust.

The ideal candidate will also demonstrate the below qualifications:

○ Reverse Engineering skills: familiar with debuggers, disassemblers, network protocols, file formats, sandboxes, hardware/firmware internals, software communication mechanisms

○ Low-level/security knowledge of Windows or other operating systems.

○ Offensive security research experience.

○ Experience using MITRE ATT&CK framework.

○ Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies.

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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