Principal Secuirty Researcher Manager Hyderabad, Telangana, India Date posted Jun 13, 2025 Job number 1830120 Work site Microsoft on-site only Travel 0-25 % Role type People Manager Profession Security Engineering Discipline Security Research Employment type Full-Time Overview 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. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is responsible for detecting, protecting, and responding to threats that affect Microsoft’s products and services. We are looking for a motivated Leader to manage a team of highly skilled security researchers who also is adept at vulnerability research to join our team. As part of the MSRC, our team is responsible for analyzing vulnerabilities found in Microsoft’s products and services to determine their root cause, severity, and security impact. This analysis plays a critical role in shaping the security updates that are deployed to customers. The knowledge that we gain from analyzing vulnerabilities also informs the offensive and defensive security research performed by our team. As part of this research, our team works collaboratively with many teams across Microsoft to investigate, develop, and deploy security features that help discover and mitigate the biggest threats to customers. Our team is passionate about a range of topics including vulnerability discovery & automation, safer programming languages, exploit and vulnerability mitigations, software sandboxes, penetration testing & red teaming, exploit development, operating systems security (Windows and Linux), virtualization security, cloud services security, OWASP top 10, and hardware vulnerabilities and mitigations. This particular role is focused on the online services (OLS), e.g. cloud and web bugs. This is a unique opportunity to have a positive impact on improving safety for customers around the world and to work on challenging real-world security problems as part of a supportive and collaborative team. 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. Qualifications 10+ years of experience in vulnerability/exploits research and mitigation Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field and experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection Have a hands-on approach to technical leadership in setting the engineering direction for the team with sound design and development best practices. Drive engineering roadmaps, leading teams, mentoring, and helping others grow. Own career development of team through active coaching. Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results. Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. Have a hands-on approach to technical leadership in setting the engineering direction for the team with sound design and development best practices. Drive engineering roadmaps, leading teams, mentoring, and helping others grow. Own career development of team through active coaching. Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results. Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. In-depth experience in working as a security engineer Experience in identifying common vulnerability types (OWASP top 10, CWE top 25) in software and services written in C#, JavaScript/HTML, C++, C, etc Ability to debug and root cause vulnerabilities in software, services, and cloud platforms Excellent written and verbal communication skills Preferred Qualifications: Public track record of vulnerability research and discovery Familiarity with cloud service architectures (Azure etc), design, and implementations Familiarity with operating system internals for Windows and/or Linux Familiarity with exploitation techniques and mitigations Responsibilities Lead and manage a team of security researchers to Analyzing vulnerabilities in software and services to determine their root cause, severity, and security impact Identifying variants of vulnerabilities and discovering new vulnerabilities. Lead the team while also collaborating with stakeholders in peer teams and organizations to build tools and invent new approaches to automate the discovery & analysis of vulnerabilities Influence and align org vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams. Analyzing trends in vulnerabilities being discovered to spot patterns Researching, developing, and deploying mitigations for common patterns of vulnerabilities Performing penetration testing, offensive security research, and red teaming activities Engaging with and contributing knowledge back to the security research community Mentoring and contributing to the growth of individuals within the team and across Microsoft Supporting a healthy and inclusive culture within the team and across Microsoft Own career development of team through active coaching. Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results. Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results. Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. 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.
