Role overview
Overview
The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
Team Overview: The Microsoft Insider Risk Program is dedicated to safeguarding our people, data, and intellectual property from internal threats that could compromise the security and integrity of the company. Built on a foundation of collaboration, innovation, and analytical rigor, our team is focused on developing advanced detection and response capabilities for proactive insider risk identification, enabling Microsoft to remain resilient against internal risks in an ever-evolving threat landscape.
Role Overview: We are seeking a data scientist to join the engineering team for the Insider Risk Program. This role will join a fast-paced, growing team to build advanced detection and monitoring capabilities, leveraging tools and techniques from across data science to create new features. You will be responsible for applying analysis and experimentation methods to iterate quickly, validate hypotheses, and measure system performance. This role will collaborate closely with all parts of the Insider Risk Program, from driving program alignment to translating operational needs to applying software development and systems engineering best practices.
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.
What you'll work on
- Contribute to the design, development, implementation, and testing of data science techniques to enhance and expand detection systems. Apply big-data methods to ensure scalability and performance.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand gaps and requirements and effectively translate from business problem to technical approach. Communicate technical concepts to a variety of audiences to enable shared understanding.
- Develop and maintain detailed documentation for models and features to support debugging, troubleshooting, and long-term code maintenance.
- Maintain awareness of trends in cybersecurity and insider risk detection strategies to identify opportunities to apply novel methodologies, share knowledge and contribute to technical discussions, and participate in internal/external conferences.
*Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications:**
- Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
- OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) or consulting experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
- OR equivalent experience
What we're looking for
- 1+ years experience in programming in Python and SQL or SQL-like language
- 1+ years experience in cybersecurity or insider risk programs
- 1+ years experience in software development concepts like unit testing and CI/CD frameworks
- 1+ years experience in applications of unsupervised machine learning or anomaly detection methods to business problems
Data Science IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process**.