Microsoft

Software Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer

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3 days ago
Remote, United States or Redmond, WA, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$85k - $184k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers and stakeholders to understand business challenges, define success criteria, and translate needs into technical solutions.
  • Design, build, test, deploy, and operate secure, reliable, scalable production-grade software systems and services using AI and data capabilities where appropriate.
  • Move solutions rapidly from concept and prototype to production while iterating with customers to deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Connect customer systems, data, and AI capabilities into reliable end-to-end solutions.
  • Apply code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and security-first development practices.
  • Own customer solutions end to end, monitoring and improving performance, reliability, quality, and maintainability after release.
  • Collaborate with engineering, data science, product management, design, and customer teams.
  • Contribute reusable components, reference implementations, and best practices across customer engagements.
  • Share deployment insights to improve Microsoft products, platforms, and engineering practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline with proven coding experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree or currently pursuing one plus 1+ year of technical engineering experience, or a master’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Experience through coursework, projects, internships, or employment building software, data, cloud, or AI-enabled solutions.
  • Interest in working directly with customers from early concept through deployment and ongoing improvement.
  • Familiarity with AI or machine learning concepts, cloud platforms, data pipelines, application development, or deploying technical solutions.
  • Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, learn in ambiguous environments, and communicate clearly.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Microsoft

About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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.

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