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Within the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization, we are seeking individuals who are passionate about delivering customer success. As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues for customers. This role provides an opportunity to accelerate your career growth, sharpen your problem‑solving, collaboration, and research skills, and deepen your technical expertise across Microsoft technologies.
Job Responsibility:
Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and internal teams to increase market share
Contributes to and/or develops automation techniques and diagnostic tools to improve cross‑group effectiveness
Provides feedback to senior engineers and serviceability teams on product functionality based on customer engagements
Leverages broad product knowledge to assess when features or capabilities require enhancement
Participates in case triage meetings and case discussions to share knowledge
Engages with engineering teams to investigate product bugs
Translates customer and support feedback into scalable processes and workflows
Implements end‑to‑end readiness programs, including mentoring, leading triages, content creation
Contributes to readiness strategy and content development
Mentors Technical Support Engineers and team members across organizations
Develops expert‑level competency across assigned support topics
Acts as a trusted advisor to customers, handling complex, repeatable, escalated, or politically sensitive cases
Creates and maintains technical documentation and knowledge base content
Provides best practices and technical education to help customers proactively prevent future issues
Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation as needed
Analyzes problem patterns and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery
Reviews complex, multi‑component issues and engages directly with customers to fully understand impact and scope
Utilizes advanced troubleshooting tools to diagnose and resolve customer issues
Collaborates across teams and products
Embodies Microsoft’s culture and values
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or a related field
5+ years of technical support experience on Windows OS, including diagnosing, troubleshooting, and repairing systems unable to start Windows
Experience with CPU issues, memory management, Windows Shell configuration and management, and use of diagnostic tools such as Windows Performance Recorder (WPR), PerfMon, Logman, Windows Event Logs, and Sysinternals
Strong knowledge of troubleshooting application and system hangs/crashes, with a solid foundation in Windows internals/architecture and Windows system administration and configuration
Business-level fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking)
Experience supporting Copilot / AI tools, documentation, and process improvement
Strong business knowledge, community participation, and collaboration with colleagues
Excellent knowledge of Windows boot stages
Proven ability to troubleshoot high CPU utilization scenarios
Skilled in interpreting and providing accurate diagnostics using real-time data collection tools
Windows debugging (WinDbg): demonstrated ability to analyze memory dumps to identify performance issues
Advanced knowledge of Windows memory management concepts
Strong troubleshooting methodologies for common performance issues
In-depth understanding of process and thread management, thread scheduling, memory management, IRPs, system worker threads, and synchronization objects
Hands-on experience troubleshooting hangs, crashes, and performance issues using PerfMon and other diagnostic tools
Experience using advanced troubleshooting tools such as XPERF, WPR, Procmon, Handle.exe, LogParser, Procdump, and similar utilities
Experience working with customer solutions and environments
Excellent understanding of Windows domain environments, including the ability to build labs with domain controllers, users, groups, and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to replicate customer scenarios
Deep technical expertise in the Windows operating system
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements
Nice to have:
Portuguese: fluent in reading, writing, and speaking
Windows Shell configuration and management
Strong understanding of Windows Modern Apps installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
Strong ability to diagnose issues in key Windows Shell components
Desirable Linux knowledge
Deep knowledge of OpenSSH
Open source integration: integration across Linux/WSL, GitHub, and open-source tools within the Microsoft ecosystem