Security Researcher II - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Identity

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. 

Cloud Apps and Identity Research team (CAIR) is looking for a Security Researcher with expertise about Identity based attacks and threats. The ideal candidate can demonstrate strong knowledge of common authentication protocols and technologies both on-prem and on cloud (e.g. Kerberos, SAML, Oauth, LDAP) and is familiar with Identity Providers' logs and internals (e.g. Entra ID, Okta). The job includes performing technical research to dissect identity attacks as observed from security research, incidents, threat landscape, customers reports and guide product and engineering teams to deliver optics, high-confidence detections and durable protection for customers.