Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Software Development

Microsoft • De, DE

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Cloud & AI Software Solution Engineer for Manufacturing in Germany, you will help manufacturing customers modernize how they build, secure, and operate software. This technical sales role supports customers using Microsoft and GitHub technologies to improve developer productivity, modernize engineering practices, and accelerate AI-enabled software delivery across business-critical applications, factory, edge, SAP-adjacent, and industrial-data scenarios.

You will engage developers, architects, platform teams, and technical decision makers, demonstrating how GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Azure, Visual Studio Code, CI/CD, DevOps, and platform engineering practices can help customers become more productive, secure, and resilient. You will support technical discovery, architecture conversations, workshops, demos, pilots, and proofs of concept that help customers move from evaluation to adoption. The role is based in Germany and may involve travel across the country as needed. Microsoft's flexible-work approach recommends spending at least two days per week in the office or at a customer site.

Requirements

• Technical pre-sales, technical consulting, software engineering, application development, DevOps, platform engineering, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
• Experience engaging developers, architects, platform teams, or technical decision makers on software development, application modernization, DevOps, or cloud adoption topics.
• Proficiency with modern programming languages and frameworks such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Node.js, React, or equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on familiarity with developer platforms and tools such as GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code, CI/CD, DevOps, or platform engineering concepts.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with manufacturing software scenarios such as factory or edge applications, SAP-adjacent modernization, industrial data platforms, resilient operations, or connected products.
• Experience with cloud-native development patterns, including APIs, containers, microservices, event-driven architectures, observability, security, or performance engineering.
• Familiarity with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Copilot adoption, DevOps governance, or secure software supply-chain practices.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with engineering teams and business stakeholders in a hybrid customer-facing environment, including travel across Germany as needed.
• Proficiency in English and German.

Responsibilities

• Guide customer conversations that position GitHub and Microsoft's AI-powered developer stack as a platform for modern software engineering and Agentic AI-enabled development.
• Run technical workshops, demonstrations, whiteboarding sessions, and customer co-creation activities that connect customer needs to practical architectures and adoption paths.
• Partner with account teams, customer engineering stakeholders, and partners to support technical qualification, remove blockers, and progress opportunities toward deployment.
• Support pilots, proofs of concept, and technical validations demonstrating how GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Azure, CI/CD, DevOps, and platform engineering practices improve software delivery outcomes.
• Maintain hands-on knowledge of software development, modern application patterns, developer tools, DevOps workflows, security, observability, and manufacturing-relevant modernization scenarios.
• Share customer feedback and learnings with internal teams to improve repeatable technical assets, demos, and customer-ready guidance for the Manufacturing business.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed