Security Researcher

2 days ago

Hyderabad, Telangana, India Microsoft Full time ₹ 15,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year

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. If you are passionate about offensive security, adversary tradecraft, and designing real-world attack simulations, the M365 Security Engineering team at Microsoft offers a unique opportunity to emulate advanced threats and strengthen defenses that protect millions of customers worldwide.

Our Assume Breach team focuses on detecting and replicating sophisticated adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used against Microsoft's cloud services, platforms, and enterprise environments. We value creativity, technical depth, and collaboration—bringing together specialists in detection engineering, adversary emulation, threat intelligence, and incident response. You will join a team dedicated to catching adversaries by simulating nation-state and cybercriminal behaviors, developing custom tooling, and running purple team engagements that drive measurable security improvements and ensure our detections remain effective against evolving threats. As part of this team, you will design attack simulations that are realistic, repeatable, and reflective of the latest adversary tradecraft. You will work closely with Detection Engineers, Data Scientists, and Incident Responders to validate detection coverage, uncover blind spots, and continuously raise the bar for detection and response. Leveraging massive-scale telemetry across Microsoft 365 and Azure, you will plan and execute adversary emulation campaigns, build Python-based automation and payloads, and operationalize new TTPs—directly influencing Microsoft's ability to defend against the world's most advanced attackers.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

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