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Technical Support Engineering
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 19, 2025 | |
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OverviewWith 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 complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and deepen your technical proficiency. The Technical Support Engineer is a technical leader who will have the opportunity to solve technically complex problems for some of the world's largest companies, as well as smaller companies on the leading edge of their industry. As a trusted advisor to IT Professionals and Developers, you will have influence over a broad range of solutions that create business value for our customers. Your technical and relationship skills are critical to the success of the customer's perception of value to the Microsoft solution. As a Support Escalation Engineer, you will use advanced troubleshooting methods and tools to solve technically complex problems. These highly complex escalated problems require broad, in-depth product knowledge and may include support of additional product lines. You can also assist in the growth of other Engineers through mentoring, training scenarios and collaboration during problem solving. This will allow the freedom to broadly enable customer self-help by creating leveraged resources, automated self-help solutions, and sharing your expertise. We will provide you with abundant resources, including a rich content library, advanced diagnostic tools, and access to other Microsoft experts.Key Responsibilities: As a Technical Support Engineer you will represent Microsoft and communicate with corporate customers via telephone, written correspondence, or electronic service regarding escalated problems in Microsoft software products, and manage relationships with those customers.It's your chance to: * Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills, while working with diverse audiences including highly technical IT professionals, developers, architects, and executive management.* Exhibit leadership through personal responsibility, accountability and teamwork.* Act as a technical focal point in cooperative relationships with other companies.* Manage crisis situations that may involve technically challenging issues and diverse audiences.* Be responsive to customer needs which may sometimes require outside of normal business hours or on-call rotation.* Use trace analysis, debug skills, source code, and other proprietary tools, to analyze problems and develop solutions to meet customer needs; this may involve writing code. * Maintain strong working knowledge of released products.* Lead triage meetings to share knowledge with other engineers and develop customer solutions efficiently. Business Division Specific:As a Technical Support Engineer for Office, you will have opportunities to work directly with the product team and a broad range of customer contacts from the customer''s Help Desk to their CTO, as well as to work alongside some of the world''s best troubleshooters in Microsoft technologies.The technologies which Office utilizes and integrates with are constantly changing and becoming more complex. In order to meet these changes, our engineers will need to learn the technical stack of technologies and be adept at creative troubleshooting and problem solving. This role is full of opportunities for the right candidate to globally share back their passion for knowledge through coaching, mentoring, developing content (KB articles, white papers, training curriculum), and facilitating training to escalation peers and frontline engineers.Additionally, you will have the opportunity to collaboratively work with the front-line Support Engineers to provide technical reviews and action plans for, or take ownership of, cases working their way through the escalation channel.Success in this role requires a commitment to teamwork, collaboration, and demonstrated leadership skills. US Citizenship is required to support restricted accounts. 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.
ResponsibilitiesResponse and Resolution: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.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.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:Contributes to and/or develops automation techniques and diagnostic tools to improve cross-group effectiveness.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.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.Engages with engineering team to investigate product bugs, provides business impact, and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders and senior team members on fixes.Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution. Business Integration:Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and teams to increase market share. Influences peers to implement strategy. Other: Embody our culture and values | |