Principal Security Research Manager

Do you want to lead a team of highly motivated world-class security engineers responsible for researching security issues across Microsoft products?

If so, apply today and and join the Microsoft Security Response Center Vulnerabilities and Mitigations Team (MSRC V&M) Team as a Principal Security Research Manager, exploring new ways to find, eradicate, and prevent security flaws in our codebase.

You'll have the opportunity to work across Microsoft with developers, pen testers and security personnel to get ahead of those that wish to do harm to our customers. This is a unique opportunity to impact every major product that Microsoft has running and learn to solve security at the scale and complexity of Microsoft.

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

• Manage and retain direct reports who deliver results that measurably improve the security of Microsoft online services.

• Develop new ways to prioritize projects within the security space, with a specific focus on finding and getting the worst security flaws fixed in most places.

• Create tools, services, or whatever is necessary so that developers and teams discover and address security vulnerabilities.

• Collaborate with teams across Microsoft to help perform and validate root cause analysis of failures and understand different technology stacks.

• Find and recruit talented developers to contribute to our goal of more secure platforms.

• Plan and manage an expanding portfolio of security areas and track associated metrics and external cases and research.

• Create and represent plans to management for driving security improvements across Microsoft products and services.

• Any other reasonable activity directed by management.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.

o OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.

• 1+ year(s) people management experience.

• 5+ years of Security Software Development Experience.

• 5+ years of experience withsystems security assessment and penetration testing.

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

• Dependable and committed record of vulnerability research and discovery

• Understanding of security issues that may arise in managed and native server code components and their security implications.

• Ability to understand C and/or C++ 3+ years People Management Experience

• Ability to explain and advise on security design and implementation of complex security problems

Security Research M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

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