3 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own customer engagements end to end, including discovery, technical problem definition, solution planning, implementation, validation, and production adoption.
- Design and implement automation, configuration, provisioning logic, integrations, and reference implementations alongside customer engineers.
- Diagnose Windows developer-platform friction involving WSL, containers, virtualization, provisioning, toolchains, build performance, CI, inner-loop latency, identity, security, and endpoint policies.
- Build production-deployed configuration baselines, provisioning automation, diagnostic tooling, and reference environments.
- Provide evidence and technical feedback to Windows, WSL, developer tooling, and security product teams, and drive fixes, supportability improvements, and telemetry through shipping.
- Convert customer-specific solutions into reusable playbooks, reference configurations, tooling, and guidance.
- Demonstrate adoption through production workloads, telemetry, customer evidence, and agreed success measures.
- Build trusted relationships and communicate findings, tradeoffs, risks, and progress to customers, Microsoft teams, and executives.
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 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 or MCP integration, and large-scale deployment.
- Preferred strong Python programming ability plus at least one of TypeScript, C#, Rust, Go, C, or C++.
- Preferred customer-facing engineering experience in forward-deployed engineering, field engineering, technical consulting, escalation engineering, solutions architecture, or technical founding roles.
- Preferred knowledge of the Windows developer platform, including WSL, containers, virtualization, developer environments, toolchains, build performance, local inference, hardware acceleration, security, and enterprise policy controls.
- Preferred experience diagnosing performance and reliability issues using telemetry, traces, profiling, Windows Performance Analyzer, or comparable tools.
- Preferred ability to turn customer-specific solutions into repeatable solutions and influence product planning 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 Microsoft’s 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, 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.