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Microsoft Corporation Principal Research Security Engineer in Multiple Locations, Netherlands
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.
Are you passionate about security and innovation? Do you want to work on cutting-edge solutions that help protect Microsoft and its customers from cyber threats? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
The Security Health and Analytics Engineering organization is growing its attack simulation capabilities and looking for a talented security researcher to join our Netherlands based team to design & build the next generation of attack simulation capabilities.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled team, focused on a dynamic and emerging product space. The security threat landscape is everchanging, bringing new challenges each day. Working in partnership with researchers and defenders, attack simulation provides the signal emulating the behaviors central to the detection and disruption of threat actors.
As a Principal researcher on the attack simulation team, you will be focused on establishing and growing partnerships with security research teams and other security professionals across Microsoft to research emerging threats and design & implement end-to-end attack simulation scenarios representing them.
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
Lead research into emerging threats, composing end-to-end Kill Chains, designing and building simulations to replay complex attack scenarios.
Work with project stakeholders to prioritize of the most relevant attack scenarios.
Work with attack engineers and partner teams to design and develop new attack simulations, features & capabilities.
Provide technical mentorship to team members, growing a diverse range of attack skills across the team.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
Proven experience in pen testing, security research or adversary emulation spaces
Strong collaboration skills
Relevant experience with programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, Python
Experience with Cloud based environments and architectures
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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
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