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Senior Security Research Engineer

Costa Rica, San José · Job Posted February 14, 2026
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Microsoft Defender Experts Team is looking for an experienced professional to join our detection and response team. No matter how sophisticated attacker behaviors become, Microsoft 365 Defender will help enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks. Our team uses deep knowledge of the attacker landscape and rich telemetry from our sensors to perform root-cause analysis and generate custom alerts, ensuring that Microsoft 365 Defender customers are well equipped to quickly respond to human adversaries identified in their unique environments. Ensuring that no human adversary can operate silently begins with experts harnessing the powerful optics provided by Microsoft 365 Defender, across the attacker kill-chain, coupled with world-class detections. We are looking for someone who is passionate about this work to help us harness the power of Microsoft’s trillions of security signals to quickly identify and report the latest human adversary behaviors, drive critical context-rich alerts, build new tools and automations in support of hunting objectives, and drive innovations for detecting advanced attacker tradecraft.

Job Responsibility

  • Work directly with senior leaders of our customers’ security organizations as design partners on new cloud detection and response innovations, as well as to ensure excellent customer satisfaction with our products and services
  • Partner with your team of Microsoft Threat Experts providing deep research and analysis of threats impacting our customers
  • Work cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, and business leaders to innovate and deliver new security service offerings at a global scale
  • Investigate, analyze, and learn from security researchers, attackers, and real incidents to develop durable detection solutions/strategies across customer tools
  • Work with other internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that help mature the products that support Defender Experts service offerings
  • Provide technical leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment and influence the organization

Requirements

  • Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field
  • 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
  • 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
  • equivalent experience
  • Over 7 years of hands‑on experience in technical cybersecurity roles—including Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and Penetration Testing/Red Team
  • Advanced English level
  • Advanced Portuguese level

Nice to have

  • Doctorate 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
  • Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
  • equivalent experience
  • Ideally 300-level proficiency in Microsoft Defender Endpoint and Microsoft Defender Office, and 200-level in Microsoft Defender Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender Identity, and Microsoft Defender Cloud
  • Customer-Centric Mindset: Comfortable engaging with diverse stakeholders, possessing exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to navigate complex organizational landscapes
  • Experience evaluating and translating customer needs, requirements, and challenges, and communicating solutions (positioning, technology, value, priority) and improvements to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience leading a security function for a customer (i.e.: SOC manager, solution lead, Security engineer)
  • Knowledge of operating system internals and attack techniques in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android & iOS platforms
  • Experience with data analysis and cyber threat investigations in Sentinel
  • Knowledge of kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and modern penetration testing techniques
  • Knowledge of major cloud and productivity platforms as well as identity systems and related security concerns
  • Experienced with curation of Threat Intelligence and delivering customer briefings
  • Strong ability to use data to 'tell a story'
  • Experience with reverse engineering, digital forensics (DFIR) or incident response, or machine learning models
  • Experience with system administration in a large enterprise environment including Windows and Linux servers and workstations, network administration, cloud administration
  • Experience with offensive security including tools such as Metasploit, exploit development, Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT), and designing ways to breach enterprise networks
  • Additional advanced technical degrees or cyber security certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC certifications

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