With over 18,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

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 help customers and partners resolve their issues quickly, prevent future problems from occurring, and demonstrate new ways to achieve more from their Microsoft investment. In Modern Work (MW), we help our customers get and stay productive with Microsoft 365 product families.

The Support Escalation Engineer (SEE) serves as a senior technical leader for Microsoft customers and partners, via phone, email chats, forums and web. They deliver value by collaboratively solving customer problems, providing proactive support advice, promoting product quality and enhancements, and creating self-help assets to broadly reach more customers. The SEE will contribute to the success of others through mentoring peers, delivering one-to-many education and advising Managers on the development of the Team.

The skilled suit of an SEE is in employing problem isolation techniques, assets, and product knowledge to solve problems. They investigate and solve highly complex technical issues requiring expert product or service knowledge. They act as a subject matter expert regarding product / configuration and will often employ sophisticated troubleshooting tools such as analysis of event logs, component traces, and performance traces to resolve customer issues. SEEs collaborate with experts from across the business, including our Development Teams.

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

• You own, investigate and solve complex customer technical issues and act as a advisor to the customer, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices

Readiness

• You lead in building communities with peer delivery roles and share your knowledge through readiness programs, technical coaching and mentoring of others.

• You deepen your technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve complex customer issues, through training and readiness.

Product/Process Improvement

• You engage with Microsoft Engineering/ Supportability teams to investigate potential product defects and help develop automation techniques and diagnostic tools driving Microsoft product improvements

Response and Resolution

• Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue.

• Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues.

• Acts as an advisor to the customer and handles complex, repeatable, or escalated cases that may become politically charged.

• Creates technical articles or knowledge base (e.g., edits or creates news/ knowledge-base articles) that is internal or customer facing for better customer understand.

• Provides best practices and education to ensure customer understands the problem in order to proactively resolve potential issues in the future.

• Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers.

• Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level.

• Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve complex customer issues.

Readiness

• Implements end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) and contributes to the content and readiness strategy.

• Mentors Technical Support Engineers or members from other teams outside of Customer Service and Support (CSS). Develops expert level competence on support topics.

Product/Process 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. Leverages overall product knowledge to determine if and when features require enhancements.

• Engages with engineering team to investigate product bugs, provides business impact, and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders and senior team members on fixes.

• Contributes to and/or develops automation techniques and diagnostic tools to improve cross-group effectiveness.

• Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution.

• 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.

Business Integration

• Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and teams to increase market share. Influences peers to implement strategy.

Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years technical support, technical consulting evxperience, or information technology experience.

• 3+ years of experience and knowledge of designing, writing, debuggingand troubleshooting Windows desktop and web applications in C# or VB.Net.

• 2 + years of working with end-customers with understanding of resolving issues with code.

Other Requirements:

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Technology Certifications.

• Experience writing code against Exchange and Outlook using Microsoft APIs and protocols is desired.

• 3+ year experience applying a logical and methodical approach for problem solving.

• C++ development experience is preferred.

• Solid understanding of client/server, networking, and Internet technologies fundamentals.

• Experience with REST APIs Microsoft Graph and oAuth.

• Working knowledge of troubleshooting tools including Sysinternals tools, Performance Monitor, Fiddler, Procmon, Netmon, etc.

• Crash dump analysis using Visual Studio or the Windows Debugger (windbg.exe) is desired, but not required.

• General understanding of SMTP transport and Exchange Transport a plus.

• Preferred for Exchange

• Understanding of Exchange On-Premise or Exchange Online architecture 

• Troubleshooting skills with Exchange

• Understanding of Active Directory and DNS 

• Experience with Windows Server 

• Troubleshooting experience with Devices syncing.

• Preferred for Outlook

• Windows Server concepts and administration (Active Directory, Group Policy Management, Networking)

• Windows desktop administration

• Networking (HTTP, DNS, TCP, IP)

• History of skilled customer service, communication, problem-solving, interpersonal skills and teamwork.

• Ability to learn any API, protocol, language or concept quickly and with minimal training or self-learning related to the position.

Technical Support Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $80,900 - $162,200 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 $105,300 - $176,900 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .