New 
Principal Security Researcher
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 19, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) have unique optics into end-to-end attacks and how different stages manifest across our telemetry: we join the dots and show the art of the possible. The threat intelligence research team research and develop new capability to detect attacks and threat actors through novel correlation and analysis ideas. We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Principal Security Researcher with experience developing unique detection methodologies for tracking threat actor infrastructure. This individual will serve as a subject matter expert on internet scanning and detection capabilities and facilitate the expansion of our network detection capabilities in partnership with analysts across MSTIC. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLeverage their experience and understanding of tracking threat actors to expand network infrastructure fingerprint signature development to broaden the impact of MSTICs infrastructure detection capability and collaborate with team members to identify opportunities to fingerprint existing and emerging actor infrastructure for improved tracking of threat actors.Partner with Microsoft engineering teams to improve our internet wide scanning through the development of new probes and custom scanning capabilities that can drive additional threat actor insights and infrastructure detectionEffectively combine network intelligence with additional data sets to surface new nation state and ransomware campaigns and expand MSTICs visibility into attacks targeting Microsoft and its customersUtilize network-based command and control insights to identify 1st party protection opportunities and partner across the CISO organization to enhance Microsoft's defenses.Embody our culture and values | |