Job Description
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 MSTIC Intelligence Graph Research team is responsible for defending Microsoft Cloud and our customers through innovation in security graph research and abuse identification. Defending Microsoft Coud's complex environment provides a unique opportunity to research, build and evaluate autonomous graph powered defense through emerging generative AI capabilities. This dedicated team of security experts aims to provide real-time measurements of risks, discovery of emerging threats and empower response. We are seeking a highly skilled professional with the following qualifications:
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.
**Responsibilities**
Develop and maintain an interconnected ontology of taxonomies tailored for use in a large graph database supporting security applications.
Design and model nodes and edges to represent assets, vulnerabilities, networks, and activities for risk management and threat analysis.
Leverage graph queries, data science techniques, and attacker methodologies to identify and demonstrate multi-domain attack paths and strengthen organizational defenses.
**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifications:**
+ 1+ year(s) experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and/or anomaly detection
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
+ OR equivalent experience
+ Experience in cloud security, with deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, identity management, and security event analysis.
+ Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing taxonomies and ontologies to structure and interconnect complex IT and security data for risk assessment, threat analysis, and incident response.
**Other Requirements**
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
+ This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Experience in red teaming or penetration testing within Windows and Azure environments, with an understanding of the latest cybersecurity threats and offensive security tools.
+ Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems or other big data pipelines, including proficiency in Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes for analyzing large volumes of security logs and events
+ Ability to build and maintain large, multi-domain graph databases to model cloud assets, identities, activities, anomalous behaviors, and attack paths.
+ Familiarity with cloud security practices and protocols.
Security Research IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $105,600 - $174,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 19th, 2025.
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
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