Senior Customer Experience Engineer
Microsoft
Responsibilities
- Provide advanced technical support for enterprise customers using Dynamics 365 Contact Center
- Resolve critical, complex, and time-sensitive technical issues within a 24x7x365 global support environment.
- Participate in on-call rotations to lead triage, incident response, and escalation management for high-severity issues.
- Perform deep technical troubleshooting, log and telemetry analysis, and root-cause investigations across application, platform, data, and telephony layers.
- Deliver clear, customer-ready technical guidance and documentation to reduce future incidents and improve operational stability.
- Support the full Microsoft Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) feature set, including voice channels, PSTN/Direct Routing, digital messaging, intelligent routing, IVR/IVA flows, bots, and agent desktop experiences.
- Diagnose issues involving SIP signaling, RTP/voice quality, telephony configuration, call setup failures, network QoS, and SBC/carrier integrations.
- Troubleshoot routing logic, queue management, priority rules, classification models, and capacity-based distribution.
- Support AI-driven features such as agent assist, classification, conversation intelligence, transcription, and generative responses.
- Lead investigations into cross-service scenarios involving Azure Communication Services (ACS), Bot Framework, Power Automate, Azure Functions, and Dataverse.
- Collaborate with product engineering to escalate bugs, validate fixes, improve troubleshooting workflows, and influence roadmap decisions.
- Assist customers with CCaaS onboarding, provisioning, channel setup, compliance configuration, analytics, and environment readiness.
- Represent customer issues and insights to product engineering teams to drive platform improvements and service quality.
- Partner closely with engineering to validate product fixes, influence feature designs, and contribute to release readiness.
- Create playbooks, troubleshooting guides, diagnostics practices, and self-help content to improve support scale and customer enablement.
- Develop and deliver training for global team members, including CCaaS deep-dive materials, hands-on labs, and readiness content.
- Mentor and coach new engineers to accelerate onboarding and technical proficiency.
- Support the recruitment and development of a world-class global support organization.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives, operational excellence programs, and cross-team engineering efforts.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 4+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering OR equivalent experience.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- 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 operations, support engineering, and/or customer experience engineering OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of customer facing experience.
- Experience supporting mission-critical cloud services for enterprise customers.
- Deep technical expertise with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE) and Customer Service Omni Channel, PowerApps, Power Automate and Dynamics 365 CE apps.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and drive initiatives to completion.
- Experience supporting or implementing cloud contact center platforms such as Microsoft CCaaS, Azure Communication Services, or similar CCaaS ecosystems.
- Knowledge of telephony fundamentals including SIP, RTP, codecs, carriers, SBCs, PSTN connectivity, Direct Routing, and QoS optimization.
- Hands-on experience with IVR/IVA design, bot integration, call flow debugging, voice quality troubleshooting, and call analytics.
- Knowledge of compliance, data retention, transcription policies, and audit requirements relevant to contact centers.
- Proven experience trouble shooting issues directly with customers and demonstrating empathy
- Skilled communicator with the ability to translate technical issues into clear, actionable guidance for customers and leadership.
- Analytical and diagnostic skills, including log analysis, performance troubleshooting, and root-cause investigation.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Customer Experience Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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
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
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.