1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own forward-deployed customer engagements from technical discovery and problem definition through implementation, validation, and production adoption.
- Design and implement automation, configuration, provisioning logic, integrations, diagnostic tooling, and reference implementations alongside customer engineers.
- Provide technical depth on Windows developer environments, WSL, containers and virtualization, developer tooling, build performance, CI, inner-loop latency, identity, security, and endpoint policies.
- Diagnose platform, enterprise configuration, tooling, performance, and reliability problems using telemetry, traces, profiling, and comparable analysis methods.
- Bring customer evidence to Windows, WSL, developer tooling, and security product teams; drive fixes, supportability improvements, and telemetry additions through shipping.
- Convert recurring customer solutions into scalable playbooks, reference configurations, tooling, and guidance, and transfer expertise to field, support, product, and other FDE teams.
- Demonstrate measurable adoption through production workloads, telemetry, customer evidence, or agreed success measures while maintaining trusted customer relationships.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience involving coding, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: production experience building or deploying LLM-powered systems, including agents, prompt and context engineering, evaluation frameworks, tool and MCP integration, and deployment at scale.
- Preferred: solid Python programming ability plus at least one of TypeScript, C#, Rust, Go, C, or C++, with a record of shipping production software.
- Preferred: customer-facing engineering experience such as forward deployed engineering, field engineering, technical consulting, escalation engineering, solutions architecture, or technical founding.
- Preferred: knowledge of the Windows developer platform, including WSL, containers and virtualization, developer environments, toolchains, build performance, local inference, hardware acceleration, and enterprise security and policy controls.
- Preferred: experience diagnosing performance and reliability issues using telemetry, traces, profiling, Windows Performance Analyzer, or comparable tools in systems not originally written by the candidate.
- Preferred: ability to turn a solution for one customer into a repeatable solution benefiting many, represent customer needs in product planning, and influence engineering priorities with technical and business evidence.
- Preferred: familiarity with WinUI, WPF, .NET desktop, and application modernization.
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 remain open for at least 5 days and accepts applications 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.