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.

Join us as a Security Researcher II and be a part of the team that is instrumental in constructing one of Microsoft's most exciting security solutions. In an era of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, the Microsoft 365 Defender security suite has emerged as a vital tool for enterprises, enabling them to identify, scrutinize, and counter advanced breaches and data intrusions within their networks. At the core of this suite lies Microsoft Defender for Identity, which shields customers by offering insights and detections for identity attacks spanning on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

We are seeking a Security Researcher II who enjoys unraveling the mysteries and unique patterns of networking, authentication protocols and identity attacks, to join our Israeli research team and help provide our customers with the needed protection. The job includes performing low level research of user, device & cloud apps behaviors and numerous protocols, for the purpose of identifying the necessary optics and delivering detection logics. You will manage complex projects which require intimate familiarity with the identity security threat landscape and involve collaboration with partners across the Microsoft engineering and research teams.

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.