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The Azure Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team has combined a customer-first and engineering minded approach where we strive to design the complete customer experience from end-to-end. As part of Azure, we consistently innovate and create new solutions to solve some of our most strategic and challenging problems.   This Role will be accountable for improving customer experience on Azure including first party services. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate breadth while managing complex, highly available services with a deep understanding of the underlying components including Azure Core Services, Deep understanding of Azure Services and their inter dependencies, and work directly with customers and first parties, Customer Support, Livesite Teams, and other engineering teams. You will deliver critical, customer-facing features and work across many Azure servicing teams, ensuring they meet our customers’ needs. In this role, you will partner with Program Management, Business, Field, Marketing, and Support teams. You will be surrounded by data scientists, experienced developers, and colleagues that obsess over improving customer and platform experience. We are looking for Principal Customer Experience Engineer to join our team. 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 + Analyze and comprehend complex customer application architectures to identify and resolve feature and knowledge gaps . This involves identifying, utilizing, and recommending existing engineering tools, customer telemetry, and direct customer input services/systems. It also includes synthesizing feedback from increasingly challenging and strategic customers to learn how they use the product and identify and resolve feature and knowledge gaps, misconfigurations, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) in the current platforms. + Work collaboratively across CRE to utilize SRE practices to improve our systems, processes, and platform reliability . this involves working closely within the Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team to support Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. The goal is to enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems and processes, ensuring a robust and reliable platform for our customers. + Identify and implement top customer resiliency improvements to minimize outage impacts . This includes creating conducting health checks, architectural reviews, and driving improvement recommendations to ensure the customer environment is optimized and configured for deployment. + Collaborate with product teams to prioritize and drive platform improvements . This responsibility involves partnering with other teams (e.g., program managers, software engineers, product, customer service support teams) to prioritize and drive resolutions of complex, high-impact customer issues and integration of customer features into the products. It also includes delivering complex solutions back to the customers and leading discussions with stakeholders on customer progression. + Lead efforts to improve individual customer experiences while scaling platform improvements . This involves acting as a voice of customers to inform relevant product and business groups on customer product experience and usage, and how to improve the customer environment. It also includes leveraging customer feedback to provide input on business plans developed by the relevant product and business groups, and leading the team in engaging with feature and product groups on redesign/customer requested changes for Microsoft products. Qualifications Required Qualifications: + Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering OR equivalent experience. + 1+ year(s) of customer facing experience. 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. Preferred Qualifications: + Master's Degree in Engineering, or related field AND 8+ 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 12+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering OR equivalent experience. + 3+ years of customer facing experience. + 2+ years of Site Reliability Engineering experience. Customer Experience Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 will accept applications for the role until July 22, 2025. #Azcxp 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) . About the Company: Microsoft Corporation DO WHAT YOU LOVE Make your mark on the world’s most used technologies. Develop the next hit mobile application. Pioneer a startup that could be the next big thing. At Microsoft, you choose your path. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a top innovator in both the consumer and enterprise technology industry. Just a few of the many things our products do are unleash creativity, connect businesses, and make learning more fun. But our continued success is based on one thing: our employees. We hire amazing, talented people and give them the opportunities—and the tools—to succeed. WHY MICROSOFT? As a Microsoft employee, you’re surrounded by a diverse group of the smartest people in your field. This fosters new ideas, better business results, and creates a dynamic work environment. In the office, you’re constantly challenged and supported by your colleagues. Every day holds something new and exciting. We also offer unparalleled depth and breadth of career opportunities. As an industry leader in multiple fields, working for Microsoft means being able to do whatever you feel passionate about—and being able to make an impact in that field. From day one, we give our employees significant responsibility. This means that you’ll know that you directly contributed to something that has a positive impact on people worldwide. Whether you choose to work in management, dive deep into the newest technology, or explore multiple professions, you’ll find everything you need at Microsoft to drive your career—and to make a difference. WE GET IT – YOU’RE MORE THAN YOUR JOB Everyone works differently and is motivated by different things. We also understand that there’s more to you than your job. That’s why we offer competitive pay and a wide assortment of benefits-- to help you make the most of life at work and away from it. GET THE BALL ROLLING Company Size: 10,000 employees or more Industry: Computer Software Founded: 1975 Website: http://www.microsoft.com

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