Digital Native Senior Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

1d • $106,400 - $222,600

About The Position

Microsoft’s Digital Natives Team is at the forefront of AI innovation and Cloud Transformation, delivering technical and business impact with scaling-stage digital natives and high-velocity enterprise customers. We seek individuals who are passionate about AI application development, cloud scaling, and shaping the future of software engineering with AI. Join Microsoft as a Sr. Solution Engineer Cloud & AI Software, where you’ll help startups, digital natives, and fast-moving customers’ developers solve complex challenges and build the next generation of intelligent applications and platforms. As a Solution Engineer, you'll work directly with technical founders, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders to architect platforms that support AI workloads and business-critical applications at scale. You'll bring deep expertise in migrating and optimizing core workloads—including Kubernetes Services, Windows/Linux, API Management on Azure, with particular attention to the elasticity, cost efficiency, and time-to-market demands that define Digital Native and ISV businesses. Beyond migration, you'll lead customers through modernization using the 6R framework, containerization best practices, and Azure-native services like AKS and Arc, while exploring how AI and intelligent agents can accelerate legacy transformation and product development. You'll apply networking expertise to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions—virtual networks, VPNs, and secure routing architectures—that meet performance, multi-tenancy, and compliance needs. You'll complement this with trusted partner solutions available on Azure to ensure a secure, optimized, and scalable experience. You'll have the opportunity to grow your technical expertise through Microsoft's learning resources, including support for industry-recognized certifications across Azure infrastructure, security, and AI. 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.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 5+ 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.
• 5+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).
• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding Cloud Services such as Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud services, including security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Ability to engage technical and business stakeholders to design and deploy scalable, secure cloud solutions.
• Enterprise-Grade Architecture: Ability to create and explain 3-tier, system context, and system interaction diagrams, with proven experience building AI-focused solutions on the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) from MVP to production.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales through demos, proofs of concept, and architecture accelerators to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
• Help customers validate technical assumptions by writing working code and prototyping MVPs.
• Lead architecture sessions and technical workshops with technical decision makers and founders to accelerate Azure adoption.
• Build trusted relationships with platform and engineering leads to co-design secure, scalable, multi-tenant solutions.
• Resolve technical blockers by collaborating with engineering and channeling customer insights back into the product.
• Maintain deep, current expertise in AI-assisted dev tools, CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native development (APIs, containers, microservices), cloud migration, resiliency, security, and compliance.
• Represent Microsoft in customer forums and technical communities through thought leadership.
• Embody our culture and values.

Benefits

• Support for industry-recognized certifications across Azure infrastructure, security, and AI.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior