Service Engineer Ii

As a Service Engineer II you will provide advanced technical support for Microsoft online advertising global sales teams with a primary focus on technically supporting paid search results that appear on Bing and other web properties such as AOL and Yahoo The individual that will succeed in this role will have experience in and a passion for great customer service and strong team relationships You will partner with our platform development team share knowledge and be an effective advocate for our internal external partners Microsoft s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond Responsibilities Perform deep technical investigations that stretch your skills as you traverse rich telemetry streams to isolate and solve complex performance issues for Microsoft Advertising customers partners Take ownership to resolve customer issues in accordance with service level agreements SLAs balancing speed and quality Contribute to product improvements by filing bugs and design change requests and help developers fix and ship them to production to prevent customers from being impacted Drive root cause analysis and service improvements involving bug fixes in close partnership across several Engineering teams Use judgement and effective communication skills to compose timely Global Alerts and issue visibility correspondence to sales teams and partners Create process or troubleshooting documentation that enables knowledge base for Tier 1 and Tier 2 support teams Conduct data and trend analysis to create insightful customer stories that influence Platform ENGG team product roadmaps and gaps business decisions and training readiness content Collect and align customer partner feedback on Microsoft products and services e g surveys listening systems act as the voice of the customer by providing actionable feedback across groups e g product team account management services leadership team about customer partner experience and competitor threats propose new initiatives to anticipate risks Provide thought leadership to influence strategy when engaging with customers and partner and contribute to business case development for policy changes and engineering asks Drive revenue upsell during consultations by identifying and recommending customer-centric optimization opportunities Prioritize and deliver against client planned technical initiatives which can be in the form of specific client work consultations implementations and or scaled solutions Support effective rollouts of new pilots and features participate in Engineering led bug bashes to help launch stable and low friction releases to markets globally Anticipate customer issues to design and automate platform checks to engage with Engineering proactively before customers escalates Establish requirements and collaborates with others across the organization to build monitoring and diagnostic tools that automate the discovery and resolution of issues Expect occasional night and weekend on-call work Qualifications Required Qualifications Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 2 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering service engineering or systems engineering OR equivalent experience Minimum 2 years experience in a technical support or software development organization Tier 3 experience preferred in the online industry for a high-volume commercial website or service Minimum 2 years experience using TSQL required with ability to manipulate data rapidly and use complex joins 3 years experience preferred and Stored Procs Minimum 2 years experience in Python C JavaScript or any object-oriented programming OOP languages Minimum 2 years experience in web API technologies preferably SOAP JSON XML 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 Advanced problem-solving ability to drive great customer service and strong team relationships Ability to analyze and visualize large data sets to find issue trend Practical experience running online systems built on Azure or similar cloud providers Experience communicating and supporting non-technical partners and clients Experience working with remote virtual teams ability to collaborate across boundaries Communication skills are a key component of this role with audiences that include customers peers and occasional executive presence Strong documentation skills to be utilized for case management knowledge capture bug management and training Storytelling influencing for impact skills attention to detail and commitment to quality Enthusiastic self-motivated with passion for the success of the customer and proven capability to develop key relationships Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex including pregnancy sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances If you need assistance and or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process please send a 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