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Job Details
Posted date: Oct 14, 2026
Category: Technical Support Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $111,850
Range: $70,500 - $153,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewMCAPS-Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. 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.
Customer Experience & Success
Do you want to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more?Do you want to work in an open and inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are celebrated?If you love talking to and learning from customers and are excited about working with brilliant technical minds, we want to talk to you!
In Customer Experience & Success, we are focused on how we can Empower, Help, and Advise Microsoft customers. We engage in solving complex problems for customers, we collaborate and share knowledge with each other, and we innovate on solutions to enable our customers to make the most of Microsoft products.
Our team is geographically distributed, we speak many languages, and we come from a variety of cultural backgrounds. We are rapidly expanding, and we are looking for talented people with a passion for solving complex issues and an obsession for customer happiness.
Our culture is built around attributes that drive our every decision and our every action:
Customer Obsession - we exist for and because of the customer. We need people who share that passion and drive to make our customer’s experiences easy, insightful and trusted.Growth Mindset - we value all perspectives and reward individuals that poke at the edges of what they know to be true. We are seeking people that think differently and are biased toward action to accomplish things. Diverse & Inclusive - we enable people who bring a contemporary view to shape our internal teams and encourage all to feel included. One Microsoft - we collaborate and value the work of others, combining their learnings with our own to make a better outcome for our customers.Making a difference - we drive impact by looking for ways to continually improve our day-to-day responsibilities and the connections between our work and others.
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
This is a Partner Support Engineer (Support Escalation Engineer) role which will be focused on helping Partners with issues associated with the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.
The daily responsibilities will include the following:
Review, scope, investigate, advocate for, and solve customer challenges/issues, collaborating within and across teamsSupport escalations and queries from Frontline Delivery Partner Advocates with professionalism, timeliness and excellence.Match the urgency of the customer and always maintain calm, professional attitude, functioning as the face of Microsoft and the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner ProgramConsistently leverage delivery tools, processes, and methodologies to ensure the good partner experience and accurate case codingFollows up consistently and intentionally, and develops action plans for resolving customer escalationsHelp drive partner satisfaction by providing accurate information, prompt callbacks, and timely follow-ups on all action itemsCommunicate effectively and leave a good impression as the first point of contact Provide end-to-end management of Microsoft Partner requests and remove as much effort from the partner experience as possibleSpeak enthusiastically about the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program and develop an understanding of partners and customers’ needs for both immediate issue resolution as well as future hurdles to overcome and opportunities availableAccurately route/hand off to other Microsoft services/teams if needed and, typically, as a last resort. If a “misroute” is received, goal should be to understand why, how to uptrain if other skills are needed or how to address root cause to minimize partner bounce up frontIdentify cases that require escalation (either technically or strategically)Participate in assigned workspace and center of excellence to maintain communication, readiness, and collaboration among fellow workspace colleagues.Engage as needed in projects and initiatives to support the business, digital self-help, and the overall partner support experience
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
OR equivalent experience
Additional Required Qualifications:
Experience in one or more of these areas is desirable:
• Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
• Microsoft products and services
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.
Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.
Technical Support Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $70,500 - $139,700 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 $95,000 - $153,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.