Software Engineering II (Security Researcher) Job in Hyderabad at Microsoft

• Vulnerability Research primary requirements/responsibilities:  
  • Conduct security reviews to identify and mitigate risk in Microsoft Edge. Activities include design review, code reviews, fuzzing, and penetration testing. 
  • Respond to security incidents and reports from external researchers. 
  • Use a variety of tools and techniques to identify and drive fixes to security vulnerabilities. 
  • Collaborate with other security teams across Microsoft to design and develop new security mitigations and defenses. 
  • Work closely with our partners in the Chromium community to improve browser security. 

• Security Operations primary requirements/responsibilities: 
  • Build and maintain our fuzzing infrastructure across thousands of cores on Azure across three platforms and two architectures. 
  • Develop new tools and techniques to discover new security bugs at scale. 
  • Write fuzzers to automatically test Edge’s code base and find new issues. 

Requirements of the Candidate:

• B.S., Computer Science or equivalent work experience or degree 
• 3+ years experience in a relevant professional development or security-focused role 
• Some of which must be specializing in security. 
• Public track record of relevant security research along with relevant CVEs if available, especially around browser vulnerability discovery. 
• Development and deployment of fuzz testing software. 
• Experience with basic exploit development. 
• Competence in writing at least two of C/C++, JavaScript, and Python