Overview
You join the Social Engineering Threat Research team to advance detection capabilities against email threats. You will analyze evolving attacker techniques and work with cross-functional teams to improve detection models and tooling. The role focuses on identifying gaps in the detection stack and developing next-generation security solutions for email and web protection. This position offers impact at scale within Microsoft’s security mission and a collaborative, innovative culture.
Responsibilities
- Conduct in-depth threat research to identify attack vectors and emerging threats
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance ML models and detection algorithms for security challenges
- Stay updated on threat research, ML techniques, and cybersecurity trends to boost organizational capabilities
- Identify gaps in the detection stack and help develop improved detection technology and mitigations
Key requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
- Deep experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modelling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
- Proven security domain experience, including attacker techniques and campaigns
- Practical experience with writing file parsers/extractors and feature extraction in production
- Experience authoring detection rules with Yara, ClamAV, SIEM correlation rules or similar
- Programming experience in C#, Python or Rust
- Experience in email security or detection engineering roles
- Experience tracking email-based threat actors and working in distributed teams
- Ability to translate complex business problems into prioritized objectives
- Experience designing agentic automation workflows and collaborating across organizations
- Ability to work in an Agile environment and deliver impact via cross-functional collaboration
- Collaborative mindset
- Strong communication and cross-functional teamwork
- Adaptability in agile environments
- Yara
- ClamAV
- SIEM
Security Researcher/Senior Security Researcher in Cheltenham employer: Microsoft
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