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By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.\nWithin MCAPS - Core, 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.\nIn 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 customers’ 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.\nMicrosoft’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.\nResponsibilities\nEscalation Ownership and Resolution\nOwn complex, high-impact CSP and Partner Center escalations from initial assessment through mitigation, resolution, and closure.\nEstablish a clear problem statement, business impact, scope, timeline, and technical investigation plan.\nPerform deep troubleshooting across Partner Center, identity and access, tenant and partner relationships, subscriptions, licensing, billing, commerce transactions, APIs, service integrations, and dependent cloud services.\nAnalyze logs, telemetry, error patterns, service behavior, and case history to isolate root cause and identify the most effective recovery path.\nDevelop and validate mitigations, workarounds, and recovery guidance while managing technical risk and customer impact.\nMaintain rigorous case documentation, including investigation findings, decisions, owners, dependencies, risks, and next steps.\nTechnical Leadership and Collaboration\nLead technical collaboration across frontline support, engineering, operations, incident management, and product teams.\nEngage the right resources, clarify ownership, and remove blockers to accelerate resolution.\nTranslate complex technical findings into clear, audience-appropriate updates for partners, customers, support leaders, and engineering stakeholders.\nSet realistic expectations, provide transparent status, and guide difficult conversations with empathy, confidence, and sound judgment.\nProvide technical coaching and escalation guidance to peers and frontline engineers.\nServe as a trusted technical advisor while balancing partner needs, service integrity, security, and Microsoft business requirements.\nReadiness and Knowledge Leadership\nDevelop and maintain expertise across CSP, Partner Center, identity and access management, security, commerce, and related Microsoft cloud technologies.\nParticipate in technical communities, readiness programs, case reviews, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.\nCreate and improve troubleshooting guidance, knowledge articles, diagnostic playbooks, and reusable technical assets.\nMentor peers and contribute to onboarding, coaching, and technical capability development.\nProduct and Process Improvement\nIdentify product defects, service gaps, recurring failure patterns, and supportability opportunities through case analysis and partner feedback.\nWork with engineering and product teams to improve diagnostics, reliability, documentation, and the end-to-end partner experience.\nContribute to automation, self-help, case deflection, and operational improvements that reduce avoidable support demand.\nUse data and case trends to recommend durable corrective actions and measure whether improvements achieve the intended outcome.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nRequired Qualifications\n3+ years of experience in technical support, technical consulting, cloud services, systems administration, identity management, security, or a related technical field; or a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 1+ year of relevant experience.\n\nDemonstrated experience owning complex customer or partner escalations and driving issues through cross-team resolution.\n\nStrong technical troubleshooting, analytical reasoning, and structured problem-solving skills across multiple technologies and service dependencies.\n\nAbility to interpret logs, telemetry, API behavior, and other diagnostic evidence to form and test technical hypotheses.\n\nClear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues, business impact, risk, and next steps to varied audiences.\n\nAbility to prioritize effectively, operate in ambiguity, and maintain accountability in a fast-paced support environment.\n\nDemonstrated customer focus, active listening, sound judgment, and the ability to influence positive outcomes during high-pressure situations.\n\nFluency in English for professional reading, writing, and speaking\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting Microsoft Partner Center, the Cloud Solution Provider program, Microsoft 365, Azure, MAICPP or Marketplace\n\nKnowledge of authentication, authorization, role-based access control, security groups, delegated administration, and tenant or partner relationship models.\n\nExperience troubleshooting cloud commerce scenarios involving customer acquisition, subscriptions, licensing, billing, invoicing, reconciliation, renewals, or transaction failures.\n\nExperience partnering directly with engineering or product teams to investigate defects and improve service supportability.\n\nExperience creating technical documentation, leading case reviews, mentoring engineers, or contributing to support readiness.\n\nRelevant Microsoft or industry technical certifications.\n\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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