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Principal Threat Intelligence Analyst

Microsoft· Security Research
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Reston, VA, Hybrid (Multiple Locations)$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior threat intelligence role focused on real-time visibility into intrusions, analysis of attacker tradecraft, and delivery of finished intelligence to enable scalable protection and customer defense.

Responsibilities

  • Discovering and analyzing attacker activity across on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Identifying potential threats, allowing for proactive defense and customer notification before an actual incident.
  • Providing recommendations to improve customers’ cybersecurity posture and performing threat intelligence knowledge transfer to prepare customers to defend against today’s threat landscape.
  • Building proof-of-concept and prototype threat hunting tools, automations, and new capabilities.
  • Driving product and tooling improvements by conveying learnings from threat intelligence and intrusion analysis at scale to engineering partner teams.
  • Using large-scale query workflows to distill adversary signal within an unparalleled volume of suspicious activity to pivot, validate, and scope what matters.

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Analysis, Mathematics, National Security Studies, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Analysis, Mathematics, National Security Studies, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Analysis, Mathematics, National Security Studies, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Threat intelligence analysis
Nice to have:Threat huntingSQL / KQL / SIEM query languagesAnalyzing SIEM logs and forensic artifactsReverse engineering / detection engineeringCommunication to executive audiences

Benefits

  • Security Clearance Requirements: Active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance required.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Citizenship verification via valid passport or approved documents; U.S. citizenship verification for government-related work.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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