About the job
Are you passionate about application development and excited by the opportunity to shape the future of software engineering with AI? Join Microsoft as a Solution Engineer – Cloud & AI Software, Dev Tools, and AI where you’ll help enterprise developers solve complex challenges and build the next generation of intelligent applications. Microsoft is transforming the developer experience by embedding AI across the software development lifecycle. With GitHub and Visual Studio—trusted by over 100 million developers globally—at the core along with seamless integration of Azure AI, we’re leading the way in “Agentic DevOps,” where AI agents streamline development and operations. You will help customers adopt these innovations to boost productivity, drive innovation, and become AI-native. As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI integration into their development workflows. Whether enabling DevSecOps at a global bank or scaling GitHub Copilot across thousands of engineers, you’ll help customers modernize their SDLC and realize the full value of Microsoft’s developer platform.
Responsibilities
Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms.
Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads as well as AI decision makers to co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
Maintain deep expertise in GitHub, Visual Studio, AI-assisted dev tools, Foundry SDK, CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native development (APIs, containers, microservices).
Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums.
Qualifications
Minimum
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.
Preferred
6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
Experience with cloud-native development: APIs, containers, microservices, event-driven design.
Experience engaging enterprise development teams, including developers, architects, and technical decision makers.
Proficiency in modern languages like JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, or Java, and frameworks such as .NET, Node.js, or React.
Hands-on expertise with GitHub, Visual Studio Code, CI/CD, DevOps, and platform engineering (e.g., observability, security, performance).
Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.