Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior forward-deployed engineer on a founding Windows Platform and Developers team, embedding with strategic partners and enterprise developer organizations from discovery through production.
What you’ll do
- Own customer engagements from discovery through production adoption
- Build automation, provisioning, configuration, integrations, and production reference implementations
- Diagnose Windows developer-platform friction across tooling, enterprise controls, and platform layers
- Feed customer evidence into Windows, WSL, developer tooling, and security product teams
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 coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- Hands-on experience with developer platforms across Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Production-quality programming and automation experience
Technologies
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) · Windows Subsystem for Linux Containers (WSLC) · containers · virtualization · Windows Performance Analyzer · WinUI · .NET · WPF · CI/CD
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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