Senior Security Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 03, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft defender agent group is building an industry leading security product that is deployed in tens of millions of devices: Windows, Windows Server, macOS and all common Linux enterprise distributions. The group puts an emphasis on top-notch engineering and quality to deliver innovative sensors and a highly stable platform.Microsoft Defender Security Research team is a global team of security researchers, advanced threat hunters, and agile malware responders at the forefront of protecting the Microsoft ecosystem from emerging security threats. Our research powers protection in products like Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Office 365, Azure, and more.We are an industry leading threat research lab that does in-depth threat research with threats and exploits to help keep our customers safe. If you are an experienced security researcher who is looking to make a significant impact in the security industry, we would love to talk to you!Are you interested in radically improving the security of Microsoft's products?Do you want to work on cutting edge malware analysis systems?Are you committed to helping Microsoft customers keep their computers secure and combating evolving malware threats?We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with tests and maintainability.
ResponsibilitiesConduct research that yield new insights, theories, analyses, data, algorithms, and prototypes that advance state-of-the-art of malware protection. Investigate, analyze, and learn from security researchers, attackers and real incidents in order to develop durable detection solution/strategies across the kill-chain or product/OS enhancements. Work with other internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that help mature the product. Provide exemplary leadership in an exceptionally challenging and rewarding environment and influence the organization. Collaborate with other researchers, coordinators, and developers to improve the protection capabilities of the products.Help advance the internal researcher tooling capabilities | |