Principal Security Researcher
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 22, 2024 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. Are you passionate about reverse engineering malware? Do you enjoy partnering, collaborating, and driving work with different security & engineering teams to keep the company safe? The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is looking for a Principal Security Researcher to join our team! The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is growing fast and looking for a seasoned malware reverse engineer with experience supporting threat intelligence analysis and security services and products. Are you passionate about reversing malware? MSTIC is responsible for delivering timely threat intelligence across our products & services teams, assisting with our engineering response to security issues/incidents and assisting with government policy outreach for the company. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesIn-depth technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques to define, develop, and implement the techniques in discovering and tracking the adversaries of today and identify the attacks of tomorrow. Tactical software development to support triage and analysis of datasets and information associated with APT activity and behavior as well as APT artifact analysis. Conducting triage and compressive analysis of known and suspected malicious applications, documents, network traffic and artifacts in support of MSTIC's TI analysts, services, and products Reverse engineering & binary analysisto include dynamic and static malware analysis.Experienced user of static analysis tooling (e.g., IDA Pro,Ghidraetc.) Contributing host- and network-based detection signatures/scripts to a variety of Microsoft products and services Maintaining a deep understanding and knowledge of the latest offensive and defensive Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) | |