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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 Identity Security Breach Response Squad (IDSEC BRS) is where engineers and security researchers come to work on the most challenging identity security problems at Microsoft. The team operates at the front lines of complex attacks, partnering closely with investigators and engineers to understand how real attacks unfold and to turn those insights into scalable detection, investigation, and response capabilities. BRS is deeply hands‑on: team members work directly with large‑scale identity telemetry, trace complex attack paths, and help shape the tools and systems that responders rely on during high‑impact security events. If you’re motivated by solving ambiguous problems, learning from real adversary behavior, and seeing your work directly improve how a global platform defends itself, this team offers the opportunity to make a tangible difference at cloud scale.
Job Responsibility:
Translate emerging security threats into clear, actionable engineering requirements, partnering with product and engineering teams to drive AI‑first solutions that close gaps quickly and scale protections across identity systems
Investigate and analyze advanced identity based attacks, including token theft, certificate abuse, federation compromise, workload identity misuse, MFA bypass, and hybrid/cloud attack paths
Perform deep security investigations using large scale telemetry across cloud identity systems, correlating signals to distinguish malicious activity from expected service behavior
Design high fidelity detections based on adversary invariants and abuse patterns
Partner with product and platform engineering teams to drive durable security improvements, including logging and telemetry enhancements, protocol hardening, policy changes, and safer default designs
Contribute to incident response and post incident reviews, identifying root causes, systemic gaps, and long term mitigations that prevent recurrence
Influence security strategy by identifying emerging threat classes, assessing residual risk, and advising engineering and security leadership
Build or contribute to automation and tooling that accelerates investigation, detection, and remediation at cloud scale
Collaborate across security, engineering, and research teams to improve Microsoft’s overall identity security posture
Requirements:
Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection OR equivalent experience
Experience in security research, threat analysis, incident response, or detection engineering
Understanding of identity and access technologies, such as authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth, OIDC, SAML), tokens, certificates/PKI, and MFA
Experience analyzing security telemetry at scale (for example, using Kusto, SQL, or similar analytics platforms)
Ability to translate complex technical findings into clear guidance for engineers and security stakeholders
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements