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The mission of the Microsoft Security organization—to make the world a safer place—has never been more critical. As cyber threats continue to grow in scale and sophistication, Microsoft Security continuously evolves its products to protect customers, applications, and devices globally. The Microsoft Security Customer Experience Engineering (CxE) team plays a pivotal role in this mission by anticipating customer needs, amplifying customer feedback, and systematically resolving complex challenges. The team partners closely with product groups such as Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Purview, ensuring they remain deeply connected to real-world customer scenarios. CxE takes end-to-end accountability for the Microsoft Security customer experience, enabling customers to successfully deploy, operate, and derive value from Microsoft's security solutions.
Job Responsibility:
Leverage engineering tools, customer telemetry, and direct customer feedback to identify product defects, usage issues, misconfigurations, and emerging signals
Resolve highly complex, mission critical technical issues in a 24x7x365 operational environment
Independently track and manage customer incidents, engaging customers and partners to understand issues, provide status updates, and communicate progress and next steps
Investigate and troubleshoot issues using advanced diagnostics with minimal guidance
Gather and synthesize customer and partner feedback to identify feature gaps, knowledge gaps, configuration issues, and key performance indicators (KPIs)
Design, implement, or contribute to new features, tools, and automation to improve product quality and customer outcomes
Share best practices and technical guidance through multiple forums to help customers and partners remain current
Identify opportunities to improve troubleshooting content and drive automation of complex solutions
Proactively pursue professional development opportunities across product areas and business processes (e.g., mentoring, shadowing, training) to strengthen technical depth and impact
Conduct proactive health checks to ensure customer environments are optimized and deployment ready
Guide customers through new releases, updates, and platform changes with minimal oversight
Perform feature reviews on new deployments to identify gaps and recommend improvements
With managerial support, advise customers on architecture, configuration, and deployment of Microsoft security platforms
Act as a trusted technical liaison between engineering teams and customer stakeholders throughout the solution lifecycle
Engage customers to understand business requirements, operational constraints, and availability needs, translating them into actionable deployment guidance
Coordinate and escalate customer issues to appropriate internal teams to drive timely resolution
Communicate clearly and consistently with stakeholders on issue status, risks, and resolution progress
Handle escalations from support and field teams with limited supervision
Escalate complex scenarios to senior engineers or leadership when additional expertise is required
Conduct root cause analysis and follow up with customers to ensure issues are fully addressed
Collaborate with product and business groups to understand real-world product usage and customer scenarios
Identify product limitations and gaps impacting customer experience and adoption
Represent the Voice of the Customer (VoC) by providing actionable insights to product and business teams
Partner cross functionally with program managers, software engineers, product teams, and Customer Service & Support (CSS) to unblock and resolve customer issues
Collaborate with internal teams to deliver solutions and improvements back to customers
Proactively build partnerships with internal technical teams to enhance troubleshooting resources
Leverage and integrate AI driven and agentic solutions to improve and accelerate the customer experience
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Science, Business Analytics, Business, Finance, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Humanities, or related field AND 2+ years experience in consulting, change management, project management, customer engagement, sales/business engagement, relationship management, analytics, or customer feedback and intelligence program management OR equivalent experience
Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years’ experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
Understands basic cloud architectures, email security concepts, and technologies as they relate to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) or similar email/collaboration security platforms
Familiar with email protocols (SMTP, DNS/MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC), mail flow architecture, and web technologies relevant to Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 collaboration security
Has hands-on experience with setup and configuration of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 policies (Safe Attachments, Safe Links, Anti-Phishing, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware) or similar email security technologies
Exposed to integration of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 with Microsoft Defender XDR, and familiar with Security Copilot capabilities in the context of email threat investigation and response
Experienced in basic onboarding and configuration of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protection policies and threat investigation workflows
Familiar with configuring mail flow rules, quarantine policies, tenant allow/block lists, and integration with Exchange Online Protection (EOP)
Has worked with both preset security policies and custom policy configurations within Defender for Office 365, including attack simulation training
Can collect and review email threat telemetry, message trace logs, and threat investigation data within Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and the Microsoft Defender portal
Familiarity with Advanced Hunting using Kusto Query Language (KQL) across email and collaboration threat data (EmailEvents, EmailAttachmentInfo, UrlClickEvents tables)
Able to follow instructions to resolve basic email protection, mail flow, and threat detection configuration issues
Possesses basic skills for interpreting email threat reports, phishing simulation results, and security posture recommendations in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Lead end-to-end investigations into false positive and false negative (FP/FN) detections, performing deep root-cause analysis across signal sources such as authentication, content, sender reputation, and tenant policy interactions to clearly identify detection failure modes
Serve as a technical authority on MDO detection philosophy, thoughtfully balancing security efficacy and business continuity, and advising on scenarios where perfect detection is not feasible, with an emphasis on pragmatic and scalable MDO operationalization
Has some experience using automation languages (e.g., PowerShell, Exchange Online PowerShell module) and Power Automate for email security administration and response tasks
Exposed to development languages (PowerShell, .NET, Python) for creating custom reporting, automated incident response playbooks, or integration with Microsoft Graph Security API
Interested in learning about AI-driven solutions and Security Copilot capabilities to enhance customer experience with Microsoft Defender for Office 365