Technical Support Engineering

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers' expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft's portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

Within CE&S, the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft's AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.

In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and develop your technical proficiency.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

Response and Resolution

• Resolves customer issues through problem solving, collaboration, and research. May take escalated issues as needed. Documents technical work and research.
• Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the statsolution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues.
• Performs in-depth product troubleshooting and remediation when needed.
• Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve moderately complex customer issues.

Readiness

• Assists in the implementation of end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, knowledge sharing or technical document creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks).
• Develops readiness content. Mentors new Technical Support Engineers. Develops intermediate level competence on support topics.

Product/Process Improvement

• Identifies and provides feedback to address process gaps in an effort to streamline processes and shares best practices broadly.
• Identifies potential defects and escalates to more senior engineers to resolve.
• Applies broad knowledge of automated tools being used across other technologies and products. Provides feedback for tool improvement.
• Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement.
• Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Utilizes learnings from triage meetings to identify and communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.

Other:

• Embo dy our culture and values

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
  • OR 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.
• Pacific Time Zone based & working hours
• Language Qualification: English Proficiency
• Strong background in providing technical Customer Support in an Enterprise level environment with 3 + years of experience.
• The ability to troubleshoot and logical think with 3 + years of experience .
• Working with Microsoft Defender for Office, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, or Office 365 (Exchange Online, Security & Compliance, Cloud Identity) with 2 + years of experience.

CyberDefender Mindset: A CyberDefender Mindset is a proactive, collaborative, and customer-centric approach adopted by technical support teams to anticipate, prevent, and mitigate cybersecurity threats-shifting from purely reactive issue resolution to active partnership in safeguarding organizational and customer security.

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.

This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• CISSP, Comptia Security +, ISC2 CC, BTL1/2, GSIFICED/GSEC, PSAA, Kepner-Tregoe or equivalent certification
• Customer Service Foundations (LinkedIn Learning) or other Customer Service Training/Experience
• Communicate with customer managers and executives on technical and business issues.
• Organization, time management, project management, and negotiation skills.
• 3+ years of experience providing support for enterprise level premier customers.
  
  Messaging Protection:
• Experience or strong working knowledge of FP/RN, phishing and antimalware.
• 2+ years of experience with Exchange or Office 365 (Exchange Online).
• Preference will be given to candidates with exposure to email threat protection technologies such as phishing and malware detection, spam filtering, and impersonation detection.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 features - including Safe Links, Safe Attachments, and quarantine policies - is considered an asset.
• An understanding of mail flow, anti-spam/anti-phish policies, and the ability to interpret message headers to investigate spam or phish messages will be beneficial in this role.

Technical Support Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $68,300 - $137,900 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 $93,200 - $151,200 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Aug 18th, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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