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Cybersecurity, Senior Reverse Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Posted on Dec 20, 2024

Cybersecurity, Senior Reverse Engineer

Multiple Locations, United States

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Date posted
Dec 19, 2024
Job number
1796730
Work site
Up to 100% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Security Engineering
Discipline
Security Research
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

With over 18,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization is leading the effort to create the desired customer experience through support offer creation, driving digital transformation across our tools, and delivering operational excellence across CE&S. We are looking for a Cybersecurity Senior Reverse Engineer to join our organization.


Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to lead Microsoft''s response efforts to protect over a billion customers around the world? Are you excited about cybersecurity and ready to join a passionate security response team dedicated to protecting customers from emerging cybersecurity threats? If so, this role may be your next opportunity.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Do you have a passion for helping Microsoft’s clients defend themselves against targeted exploitation? Are you interested in being intimately involved in the latest, cutting edge developments in the security industry and having a direct impact on the security of all Microsoft customers? Do you want to be on the front lines of helping our customers go toe-to-toe against advanced adversaries? Are you interested in a fast-paced job full of new opportunities? The team seeks candidates with anti-malware/reverse engineering skills to join our client-facing Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART).

DART is currently looking to hire a Cybersecurity Senior Reverse Engineer to the team!

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
    • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
  • 5+ years of relevant reverse engineering work experience

  • 1+ year of knowledge of debugging and disassembly tools such as IDA Pro/HexRays, BinaryNinja, OllyDbg, x64dbg, WinDbg, Ghidra.
  • 1+ year of experience debugging x86 and x64 assembly language

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
    • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
  • Experience debugging x86 and x64 assembly language
  • Good understanding of packer and obfuscation techniques
  • Ability to work independently and effectively, and manage through ambiguity
  • Ability to work with the team in a customer environment
  • Incident response
  • Windows/Linux Forensics
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence
  • Developing signatures for an Antivirus vendor
  • Databases, SQL and KQL
  • C++, Python and JavaScript
  • Azure and/or O365
  • Experience with Linux/Mac threats
Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 9, 2025.

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Responsibilities

This role will work as part of a collaborative team assisting our top customers with:

  • Analysing and reversing malicious or suspicious files found in customer environment
  • Providing accurate writeup and description of threats
  • Collaborating in understanding the timeline of events during investigation
  • Performing knowledge transfer to prepare customers to defend against today’s threat landscape

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.