10 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own forward-deployed customer engagements from discovery and problem definition through solution implementation, validation, and production adoption.
- Design and implement automation, configuration, provisioning logic, integrations, and reference implementations alongside customer engineers.
- Provide technical depth on Windows, WSL, WSLC, containers, virtualization, developer environments, build performance, CI, identity, security, and endpoint policy.
- Diagnose developer productivity, performance, reliability, tooling, platform, and enterprise-configuration problems and fix them at the appropriate layer.
- Build production artifacts such as configuration baselines, provisioning automation, diagnostic tooling, and reference environments.
- Bring reproductions, traces, measurements, and business impact to product teams and drive fixes, telemetry, and supportability improvements through shipping.
- Convert recurring customer solutions into playbooks, reference configurations, tooling, and guidance that can serve broader populations.
- Demonstrate adoption through production workloads, telemetry, customer evidence, and agreed success measures.
- Build trusted relationships with customer technical leaders, platform teams, developers, Microsoft field teams, and executives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience involving coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Preferred experience with developer platforms and environments across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- Preferred experience with WSL, containers and virtualization, developer machine provisioning and configuration management, package and dependency management, build systems, CI/CD, or inner-loop performance.
- Preferred experience with endpoint security and EDR, identity and conditional access, application control, and network policy.
- Preferred customer-facing engineering experience in forward deployed engineering, field engineering, technical consulting, escalation engineering, solutions architecture, or a comparable technical founder role.
- Preferred experience diagnosing performance and reliability issues using telemetry, traces, profiling, Windows Performance Analyzer, or comparable tooling.
- Preferred ability to ship production-quality tooling, scale customer solutions into repeatable offerings, and influence product priorities with technical evidence and business impact.
- Familiarity with WinUI, WPF, .NET desktop, and application modernization is valuable but not required.
Benefits
- Employees living within 50 miles of the Redmond campus must work in the office at least 3 days per week.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.