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We are currently hiring for multiple Security Research positions across our Microsoft Defender Research teams in Israel. By applying to this unified pipeline, you will be considered for a high-impact role (at either the Security Researcher II or Senior Security Researcher role) within one of our specialized groups, including Autonomous Attack Disruption, Cloud Workload Protection, Identity Research, Posture Research, or Security for AI.

We are looking for passionate, highly skilled security researchers who thrive on the challenge of breaking complex attacker kill-chains. Leveraging Microsofts dominant market position and the worlds most massive telemetry set, you will have a direct, tangible impact on the security of the global economy. We are looking for researchers who want to see their findings transformed into production-ready protection, where the ultimate goal is not just to detect threats, but to prevent and stop them in near real-time.

Responsibilities

Investigate real world advanced attacker TTPs to develop high-fidelity protection signals, and robust logic across complex kill-chains.

Design and implement innovative capabilities that autonomously prevent, detect and disrupt sophisticated threats in near real-time.

Infuse deep security expertise into the analysis of massive telemetry sets using big-data query languages, reasoning over data to identify novel malicious patterns, and drive evidence-based research decisions.

Partner with engineering and product teams to share research insights, validate protection concepts, and push ideas forward into production-ready protection at a global scale.

Contribute expert insights to a strategic feedback loop by analyzing real-world attack data and telemetry to refine protection coverage and accuracy.

Required Director Application Security
About the Role:
As the Director of Product Security, you will spearhead our efforts to fortify and enhance the security posture of our products and runtime environments and play a critical leadership role in overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of security controls for the organizations complex product applications, platform, development and cloud infrastructure.
You will lead a team of security experts and collaborate closely with engineering, product, and other business units to ensure the security and integrity of our applications, platforms, cloud infrastructure, and code stack against current & evolving threats.
Your leadership will be instrumental in embedding security best practices throughout the development and operations pipeline, ensuring a secure and scalable product environment. You will also drive the strategy, development, and implementation of a comprehensive application security program across our cloud-based applications.
Reporting line: VP Security Engineering
What Youll Do:
Strategic Leadership and Team Management:
Strong leadership skills to develop and lead the strategic direction for the Application and Cloud Security teams.
Lead risk assessments, threat modeling, and secure design reviews of cloud platforms to proactively identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with security standards.
Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of security controls across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) to protect infrastructure and applications.
Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and customer support, to embed security into product development and all aspects of cloud deployments.

we are seeking a Senior Security Researcher to join our highly technical product research team working at the core of our security products.
This is a rare opportunity to join an elite security research team and do work that directly shapes our AI and Cloud products. Your research will span cloud infrastructure, AI systems, emerging platforms, and modern architectures.
You will perform novel security research, inform product direction, and contribute to our company's thought leadership in cloud and AI security.
We are looking for an exceptional security researcher who thrives on variety and can quickly develop expertise in new areas.
Your Role:
Drive research direction across multiple domains including cloud security, AI security, and emerging threat landscapes.
Perform novel security research to uncover new attack vectors, and adversary techniques across cloud and AI systems.
Translate research findings into actionable product capabilities, detection logic, and risk prioritization guidance.
Stay current with evolving threats across cloud platforms and AIecosystems, identifying where our company should invest next.
Write and speak about security research to strengthen our company's voice in cloud and AI security.
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research into shipped capabilities.

Required Principal / Sr. Principal Security Research - Advanced Cyber Research (Cortex)
We are seeking a visionary and highly technical Principal / Sr. Principal Security Researcher to join our security research team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of innovating automated defense systems to rapidly protect platform customers against advanced cyber threats at an unprecedented scale. This position offers a unique opportunity to blend deep traditional cybersecurity expertise - including OS internals, reverse engineering, and advanced detection engineering with cutting-edge AI technologies like LLMs, SLMs, and agentic workflows.
You will spearhead the creation of innovative prevention solutions, leveraging massive streams of agent telemetry to design AI-driven logic that neutralizes threats before they execute. As a key technical leader, you will partner closely with top-tier data scientists and product engineers to translate cutting-edge security research into production-grade capabilities, ensuring we stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop Automated Defense Systems:Create, engineer, and deploy automated solutions for the prevention and detection of advanced cyber threats, analyzing complex data to rapidly protect platform customers at scale.
Innovate with AI:Partner closely with data scientists to leverage LLMs, SLMs & deeplearning techniques to fuel these advanced prevention solutions and automated defense capabilities.
Research, develop, and continuously improve the Agentix solution. Drive the development of next-generation security content by designing and implementing specialized AI agents to automate security operations and workflows.
Drive Security Innovations:Spearhead new research initiatives from the ground up. Act as the primary driver across key stakeholders, leading top-tier data scientists and engineers to ensure the successful delivery of enterprise-grade security capabilities.

we are looking for a Senior Cyber Data Analyst.
As a Senior Cyber Data Analyst for the Asset Intelligence Research team, you will conduct research to enhance the asset intelligence platform. You will lead end-to-end research projects, collaborating directly with Product and Development teams to convert technical research into product features. You will analyze large-scale security asset data, automate workflows, and prototype logic to address how enterprise assets are discovered, classified, and trusted. This is a high-impact role where your research directly shapes how our customers manage, prioritize and secure their entire assets inventory.
Responsibilities:
Lead end-to-end research projects focusing on asset data quality, fidelity assessment, enrichment, and correlation across device, identity, software, and SaaS asset types.
Utilize Python, SQL, and AI/LLM tools to build data analysis pipelines, automate asset research, and prototype enrichment and classification logic.
Research and define gating conditions that evaluate assets across three dimensions: Existence, classification, and risk and criticality.
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to transform technical research into production-ready product capabilities.

We're looking for a Threat Detection Researcher to join the Threat Research team and spread the power. In this role, you will further develop the Cloud-native Threat Detection domain.
Check out some of our recent research:
Detecting Malicious OAuth Applications
Tracking TeamPCP: Investigating Post-Compromise Attacks Seen in the Wild
Discovers Cloud Email Abuse Campaign
Responsibilities
Drive the full lifecycle of security detections - from threat research and data analysis to building and shipping detection logic directly into production.
Design behavioral baselines for complex cloud environments using diverse signals, and develop high-fidelity detections based on those baselines.
Expand our detection engine with novel and high-impact telemetry sources, pushing the boundaries of what can be detected in modern cloud environments.
Conduct deep technical research into complex cloud services to uncover novel attack vectors.
Investigate real-world attacks across cloud environments, identity providers (IDPs), and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms.
Hunt and analyze emerging threats and active campaigns targeting the cloud ecosystem.

we are looking for a Senior Security Researcher.
As a Senior Security Researcher for the Exposures team, you will conduct research into vulnerability detection, remediation, and prioritization to enhance our asset intelligence platform. You will lead end-to-end research projects, collaborating directly with Product and Development teams to convert technical research into product features. You will analyze large-scale security data, automate workflows, and prototype logic to address enterprise attack surfaces. This is a high-impact role where your research directly shapes how our customers identify and mitigate their most critical security gaps.
Responsibilities:
Lead end-to-end security research projects focusing on vulnerability detection, risk prioritization, and exposure management logic.
Utilize Python, SQL, and AI/LLM tools to build data analysis pipelines, automate threat research, and prototype research tools.
Research and define remediation strategies, compensating controls, and configuration-based mitigations beyond standard patching.
Partner weekly with Product and Engineering teams to transform technical research into production-ready product capabilities.

we are looking for a Manager, Cyber Research.
The Security Research Team powers Exposures by designing the analytical, exposure management, and data pipelines that drive product capabilities, including risk scoring, data modeling, and LLM-driven reasoning. Operating in close partnership with Product and Engineering, team members own projects end-to-end from problem definition to validated production prototypes. We are seeking a Group Manager to lead, mentor, and grow this team while driving portfolio prioritization, technical rigor, and cross-functional execution across complex cybersecurity and data-heavy initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Manage, coach, and grow a team of 4 to 8 security researchers, taking direct accountability for hiring, performance management, and research output quality.
Drive cross-functional delivery with Product and Engineering leaders, translating business requirements into clear research scope, project timelines, and scalable production prototypes.
Review and critically evaluate complex technical approaches, including data pipeline architecture, exposure/risk scoring logic, mitigation strategies, and LLM pipeline designs (prompting, retrieval, evaluation).
Lead project portfolio prioritization and represent the team's research roadmap and value metrics directly to executive leadership with minimal top-level intervention.

Required Senior/ Principal Security Researcher - Cloud & Kubernetes (Cortex)
Job Summary:
If you are an innovator at heart and passionate about redefining how organizations secure modern environments end-to-end, we're looking for you. This is an opportunity to join an exceptional group of researchers working on a startup-level product within the largest security company, helping revolutionize how organizations protect their Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
Contribute to a team of talented security researchers focused on defending organizations as they transition from on-premises data centers to modern cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Drive the execution of research initiatives to uncover novel techniques for detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks targeting hybrid and cloud-native environments.
Define and prioritize detection use cases, relevant datasets, and innovative analytic approaches combining runtime visibility and posture management across diverse platforms.
Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs to ensure our detection capabilities stay ahead of evolving threats in both legacy and cloud contexts.
Simulate real-world attacks and perform deep behavioral analysis to inform and validate detection content.
Collaborate across engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful security solutions.
Share insights with the security community through blogs, conference talks, and publications.

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Product Manager to join our AI Security group and play a key role in shaping the future of AI Security As a Product Manager, you will drive product strategy, define innovative security capabilities, and work closely with engineering, security researchers, and customers to build solutions that help organizations securely embrace the AI era.

Responsibilities:
Identify emerging challenges, opportunities, and customer requirements related to AI Security, AI applications, AI agents, and data protection.
Define and drive product strategy for AI Security initiatives across platform.
Break down strategic product goals into actionable plans and lead execution across engineering, research, design, and go-to-market teams.
Define product requirements and oversee the implementation of new AI Security capabilities and services.
Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer discovery to understand evolving AI Security threats, trends, and customer needs.
Work closely with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to validate problems, prioritize opportunities, and shape product direction.
Analyze product performance, user behavior, and customer feedback to continuously improve product effectiveness and business impact.
Collaborate closely with world-class engineering and security teams to bring innovative AI Security solutions to market.
Drive cross-functional initiatives involving Product, R&D, Security Research, Sales, Marketing, and executive leadership.