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; expert 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 Researcher who will drive the innovation of XDR-level automated attack disruption capabilities. You will leverage Microsoft’s security expertise and automation platforms 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.