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 analyst team, IDFIRE, is the premier identity cyber threat hunting and investigation team in the industry. IDFIRE is responsible for identifying and understanding all novel attacks against user and application authentication by researchers, criminals, and nation-state actors. We partner with data scientists and engineers to ensure the integrity and security of the services we operate (Entra & Microsoft Account), as well as the consumer and commercial identities we manage. We are seeking a talented individual to join our world-class team of Security Researchers with a focus on fraud prevention and detection. Your passion for protecting customers, comfort with ambiguity, and motivation to deliver consistently exceptional performance under high pressure will be highly valued. Your ability to efficiently sift through PB sized datasets via automation to extract key insights in a timely manner will be critical in helping us continue to successfully execute against our mission. If you are motivated by the challenge of using your skills & knowledge to help protect Microsoft and the world from fraud and abuse - come join us!
Responsibilities:
1. Respond to security incidents (on-call) spanning fraud, abuse, and compromise and identity-related operational issues to identify, isolate, remediate, and root cause.
2. Collaborate globally with engineering and partner teams such as MSTIC, MSRC, and DCU in combating fraud and abuse across both consumer and enterprise identities.
3. Investigate security incidents primarily related to fraud and abuse such as sign-up spikes, crypto-jacking, and IRSF fraud.
4. Continually evaluate and suggest improvements to existing algorithms, and propose new ones, to detect and prevent systemic service vulnerabilities, identity compromise, fraud, and abuse.
5. Identify and analyze new data sources relating to novel fraud vectors and gain new insights for investigating fraud and abuse by finding patterns and outliers in data.
Qualifications:
Substantial experience as a data analyst, software engineer, or security researcher; BS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, or Mathematics or equivalent experience.
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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