Responsibilities:
1. Analyzing vulnerabilities in software and services to determine their root cause, severity, and security impact.
2. Identifying variants of vulnerabilities and discovering new vulnerabilities.
3. Building tools and inventing new approaches to automate the discovery & analysis of vulnerabilities.
4. Analyzing trends in vulnerabilities being discovered to spot patterns.
5. Researching, developing, and deploying mitigations for common patterns of vulnerabilities.
6. Performing penetration testing, offensive security research, and red teaming activities.
7. Engaging with and contributing knowledge back to the security research community.
8. Mentoring and contributing to the growth of individuals within the team and across Microsoft.
9. Supporting a healthy and inclusive culture within the team and across Microsoft.
Required Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's degree + 2 years of experience -- or 5 years of relevant security research, engineering, or bug hunting work.
2. Ability to identify common vulnerability types (OWASP top 10, CWE top 25) in software and services written in C#, JavaScript/HTML, C++, C, etc.
3. Ability to debug and root cause vulnerabilities in software, services, and cloud platforms.
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Public track record of vulnerability research and discovery.
2. Familiarity with cloud service architectures (Azure etc), design, and implementations.
3. Familiarity with operating system internals for Windows and/or Linux.
4. Familiarity with exploitation techniques and mitigations.
5. Experience developing software using C#, Python, HTML/JS, C++/C, Rust, Go, etc.
6. Familiarity with hardware architectures such as x86-64 and AArch64.
7. Experience with reverse engineering binaries and exploits, though this role is mostly web/cloud/api focused.
About Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC):
Microsoft Corporation Security Research IC3 in Cheltenham, United Kingdom. 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.
Do you enjoy the challenge of discovering and analyzing vulnerabilities in software and services to understand how they work and how an attacker might exploit them? Are you excited by the idea of analyzing real-world exploits and researching new attack techniques? Are you passionate about driving meaningful security improvements into products and services to better protect billions of customers? Do you want to be part of an inclusive & collaborative team that invests in the growth and success of one another?
This particular role is focused on the online services (OLS), e.g. cloud and web bugs. This is a unique opportunity to have a positive impact on improving safety for customers around the world and to work on challenging real-world security problems as part of a supportive and collaborative team.
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