Note Regarding Current Security Situation in Israel:

At Microsoft , we are fully committed to the safety and well-being of our employees.  

We understand that the recent security situation in Israel has had an impact on daily life, including work-related matters. 

While our recruitment process may experience occasional delays due to these external factors, our commitment to a thorough and fair evaluation of all applicants remains unwavering. 

We appreciate your understanding and patience during these challenging times. The safety and well-being of our employees and candidates are of the utmost importance.

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. 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.