Microsoft
Cybersecurity Threat Hunter - Weekend shift
$120K–$261K
United States · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Required: Master's degree plus 3+ years, or bachelor's degree plus 4+ years, in the listed areas; doctorate with no years specified; or equivalent experience. Preferred: doctorate plus 3+ years, master's plus 6+ years, or bachelor's plus 8+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Doctorate, master's degree, or bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads customer-facing, evidence-driven threat hunts during cybersecurity incidents, identifies adversary activity and compromise scope, and translates findings into response recommendations and lasting security improvements.
What you'll do
- Set hunt hypotheses and priorities; analyze and correlate security telemetry to identify adversary activity, compromise scope, and visibility gaps.
- Lead hunt workstreams during incidents, document evidence, and brief customers and stakeholders on findings and response options.
- Develop queries, automation, and AI-enabled workflows, and turn research into detections, mitigations, and threat intelligence.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in a related field; or a related master's degree and 3+ years of specified experience; or a related bachelor's degree and 4+ years of specified experience; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check and any additional checks required for customer or government work.
- Ability to work the stated non-standard Friday-through-Monday shift, including weekends and public holidays; hours may change based on business needs.
Nice to have
- Hands-on threat hunting, forensic analysis, large-scale security telemetry queries or automation, and customer-facing incident response experience.
- Advanced Kusto Query Language (KQL) skills; security certifications or equivalent practical expertise.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base pay); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base pay)
Tools
Windows, Linux, macOS, Kusto Query Language (KQL), Active Directory, Entra ID, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Authors and optimizes responsible AI-enabled workflows to improve hunt scale, analytical quality, and time to detection.
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