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Overview

The Customer Experience Engineering (CxE) CARE organization is a foundational part of Microsoft Security's mission to make the world a safer place. We anticipate and solve customer support needs by amplifying the voice of the customer within engineering and delivering scalable, high-impact solutions. Every engagement is designed to build trust, resilience, and long-term success-guided by a deep commitment to diversity, inclusion, and innovation.

We're looking for a Senior Customer Experience Engineer who is passionate about customer success and energized by solving complex technical challenges. If you thrive in environments where innovation and empathy shape the customer experience, you'll find purpose here. Be on the cusp of innovation where generative AI solutions such as Microsoft Security CoPilot are helping security and IT professionals respond to cyberthreats faster and process signals as scale. Join a team of cloud professionals who believe that delivering extraordinary support is not just a function-but a mission.

As a Senior Customer Experience Engineer, you'll serve as a trusted advisor and engineering advocate for Microsoft's most strategic customers to help them achieve success with Microsoft Security portfolio of products. You provide proactive guidance to help customers maximize their investment, operational excellence, crisis management, technical advocacy, and enable seamless collaboration across Microsoft. This is a deeply technical, customer-focused, and relationship role that is ideal for Consultants, Enterprise Architects, Technical Account Mangers, and Cloud Architects with cross-functional skills, deep technical expertise, experience managing high-intensity situations, and a passion for driving customer outcomes through engineering-led support.

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Responsibilities
  • Strategic Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned strategic customers, developing a deep understanding of their security architecture, business goals, and operational environment; representing the engagement up through CISO levels.
  • Technical Escalations: Directly engage and respond to technical escalations from Microsoft's Mission Critical Security Customers as part of a 24/7 globally distributed engineering team and participate in the On-Call roster.
  • Accelerated Incident Resolution: With minimal guidance, lead the response to critical incidents, acting as Incident Commander when necessary. Drive mitigation efforts, coordinate engineering engagement, and ensure timely root cause analysis and communication.
  • Escalation Management: Own and manage technical escalations, ensuring swift resolution and transparent communication with both customers and internal stakeholders in a 24x7x365 environment.
  • Customer Advocacy: Represent the voice of the customer within Microsoft Security Engineering. Influence product direction and support strategies based on customer feedback and real-world deployment insights.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate closely with customers, account teams, product managers, core engineering, and support engineers to understand customer architecture, troubleshoot complex product issues, and align with stakeholders to drive resolution of critical escalations.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify systemic issues and contribute to long-term improvements in product quality, supportability, and customer experience.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 4+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, cybersecurity consulting, and/or customer experience engineering
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years in a customer-facing, deep technical security-oriented role with demonstrated experience with crisis management, Incident Response, and escalation handling.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Master's Degree in Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, cybersecurity consulting, and/or customer experience engineering
    1. OR equivalent experience.
  • Willingness to participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
  • 2+ years of customer facing experience.
  • 4+ years of experience with Microsoft Security products (e.g., Microsoft Defender, Entra, Intune, Sentinel, Purview) and enterprise security operations.
  • The ability to translate complex technical issues into clear business impacts.
  • 2+ years of experience with regulatory compliance frameworks, enterprise risk management, incident response or threat hunting
  • Certifications in Microsoft and/or competing Cloud Technologies in Security such as SC-200, SC-300, SC-400, SC-900, SC-100, AZ-500
  • Industry Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CEH, CompTIA Security+, GIAC (GSEC, GCIA), CrowdStrike CCFA/CCFR
  • Preferred alignment with US-East Coast or US-Central Time Zones for optimal team collaboration.


Customer Experience Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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