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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** Microsoft - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $119,800.0 - $234,700.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), .NET Framework, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac Systems, Microsoft Online Services, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Configuration Management, Profiling, Computer Networks, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Windows Presentation Foundation, Linux Containers, Subsystems, Systems Integration, Virtualization Technology, Information Technology, Build Tools, Software Coding - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88416315/1 ## About the Role * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. Other Requirements * 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. Preferred Qualifications * Deep hands-on experience with developer platforms and environments across Windows, Linux and macOS, and a clear-eyed view of where each is genuinely better. * Experience with several of: WSL, containers and virtualization, developer machine provisioning and configuration management, package and dependency management, build systems, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and inner-loop performance. * Experience with the enterprise controls that shape developer machines - endpoint security and endpoint detection response (EDR), identity and conditional access, application control, network policy - and a record of making developers productive within them rather than around them. * Experience in a customer-facing engineering role - forward deployed engineering, field engineering, technical consulting, escalation engineering, solutions architecture, or as a technical founder, working directly with another organization's engineers in their environment. * Experience diagnosing performance and reliability problems using structured methods - telemetry, traces, profiling, Windows Performance Analyzer or comparable tooling in systems you did not write. * Solid programming and automation ability, with a record of shipping production-quality tooling rather than one-off scripts. * Demonstrated ability to turn a solution built for one customer into something repeatable that benefits many. * Experience representing customer needs in product planning and shifting engineering priorities using technical evidence and business impact. * High agency and comfort with ambiguity - this team does not yet have a playbook, and the first people here will write it. * The judgement and emotional intelligence to hold a hard conversation with a customer without losing the relationship or the truth. * Familiarity with the Windows app platform - WinUI, WPF, .NET desktop and with application modernization. Not required for this role, but valuable when a customer's adoption conversation turns to their existing app estate. * Evidence of learning hard things fast. We do not expect anyone to arrive with every skill listed here. A solid track record of acquiring depth quickly counts as much as depth you already have. #W+DJOBS ## Description Own forward-deployed engagements end to end * Discover: embed with a customer's engineering organization to understand their development workflow, their constraints, and what is actually blocking adoption. Establish a clear technical problem statement, a baseline, agreed success measures, and a plan. * Build: design and implement solutions alongside the customer's engineers. Write the automation, configuration, provisioning logic, integrations and reference implementations. Apply real engineering standards - security, privacy, maintainability, supportability - to work that will outlive the engagement. * Validate: prove the improvement in the customer's environment with measurement they agree with, not with a demo. Carry the team's depth on the developer platform * Be the team's authority on how real development happens on Windows at enterprise scale: Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Windows Subsystem for Linux Containers (WSLC), containers and virtualization, developer machine provisioning and configuration, toolchain and build performance, continuous integration (CI) and inner-loop latency, and the identity, security and endpoint-policy controls that constrain all of it. * Diagnose the friction that drives developer populations off Windows - whether it originates in the platform, in enterprise configuration, in tooling, or in a gap between them - and fix it at the right layer. * Build the artifacts customers deploy in production: configuration baselines, provisioning automation, diagnostic tooling, reference environments. Close the loop with product engineering * Bring evidence back to Windows, WSL, developer tooling and security product teams with enough rigor - reproductions, traces, measurements, business impact - that it changes what they build. * Drive fixes, supportability improvements and telemetry additions through to shipping. You keep accountability for the customer outcome, not just the handoff. Scale what works * Identify the patterns that repeat across customers and convert them into playbooks, reference configurations, tooling and guidance that serve a far larger population than the accounts you touched. * Transfer knowledge to other Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE's), to Microsoft field and support teams, and to product groups, so each engagement raises the capability of everyone around it. Deliver measurable adoption outcomes * Demonstrate adoption through production developer workloads, telemetry, customer evidence or agreed success measures. * Build trusted relationships with customer technical leaders, platform teams and the developers themselves - the kind where you get told what is really wrong. * Communicate findings, tradeoffs, risks and progress clearly to customer engineers, engineering leaders, Microsoft field teams and executives. ## Related Videos - [Develop enterprise-ready applications for Microsoft Teams with Azure resources on modern web technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/187-develop-enterprise-ready-applications-for-microsoft-teams-with-azure-resources-on-modern-web-technologies) - [10M Data Records Lost, Underwater Computing, and Psychedelic Fish - Matthias Geniar](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1908-10m-data-records-lost-underwater-computing-and-psychedelic-fish-matthias-geniar) - [Profiling Symfony & PHP apps with Blackfire](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/265-profiling-symfony-php-apps-with-blackfire) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1600-develop-on-windows-deploy-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux) - [Enhancing Workload Security in Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/356-enhancing-workload-security-in-kubernetes) ## Related Articles - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Hard?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/448-is-software-engineering-hard) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe)