Microsoft Security's mission is to make the world a safer place by delivering end-to-end, simplified solutions that protect users, organizations, and developers. The Central Fraud and Abuse Risk (CFAR) team builds innovative, intelligent, and scalable risk solutions that protect Microsoft’s customers and services from abuse and fraud.
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience in risk scoring, bot mitigation, or anomaly detection systems.
- Familiarity with device fingerprinting, fuzzy ID techniques, or entity resolution.
- Proficiency with cloud platforms such as Azure, and real-time inference systems.
- Proven ability to optimize detection systems for both technical and business metrics.
Responsibilities
- Understand where to acquire the data necessary for your project plan and use querying, visualization, and reporting techniques to describe that data.
- Understand modeling techniques, select the correct tool and approach to complete objectives, and evaluate the output for statistical and business significance.
- You’ll analyze model performance and incorporate customer feedback into its evaluation.
- You’ll write efficient code for a specific feature, and develop a working expertise of proper debugging techniques.
- Understand device fingerprinting techniques, analyze the device attributes collected for device fingerprinting, identify anomalous attributes within sessions as well as across sessions.
- Develop techniques to devise a unique device identifier given the device attributes.
- Understand the end to end processes of the real time decision platform, e.g., where the API is defined, what the API payload looks like, how we do feature engineering, where we deploy our models, how we monitor the data flow and how we manage rules, among other things.
Other
- While flexibility is supported, we prefer candidates who can work on-site with minimal remote engagement to encourage deep collaboration and team cohesion.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- 3+ year(s) customer-facing, project-delivery experience, professional services, and/or consulting experience.
- Communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines.
