Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior forward-deployed engineer on the founding Windows Platform and Developers team, embedding with strategic partners and enterprise developer organizations to move production workloads onto Windows.
What you’ll do
- Own customer engagements from discovery through production adoption
- Build automation, provisioning, integrations, diagnostics, and reference implementations with customer engineers
- Diagnose Windows developer-platform, tooling, configuration, and performance friction
- Drive evidence-based fixes and telemetry improvements through Windows product engineering
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of technical engineering experience with production coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements
- Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter
Technologies
Windows · WSL · WSLC · Windows Performance Analyzer · Python · TypeScript · C# · Rust · Go · MCP
About Microsoft
Microsoft sells cloud infrastructure, productivity software, and AI tools to enterprises and consumers globally, anchored by Azure, Office 365, and the OpenAI partnership.
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