Microsoft
Azure Solution Engineer
$106K–$223K
United States · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- Required alternatives: 3+ years with a master’s degree; 4+ years with a bachelor’s degree; or 5+ years, or equivalent experience. Preferred: 6+ years in technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience; 4+ years in infrastructure and architecture-related work.
- Education
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; equivalent experience is also accepted.
- Visa sponsorship
- Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role.
About the job
Leads technical sales and customer engagements to design secure Azure architectures, modernize platforms, and support cloud, database, sovereign cloud, SAP, and AI transformation.
What you'll do
- Drive technical sales through demos and proofs of concept, influencing solution design and production deployments.
- Lead hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops; co-design customer solutions and resolve technical blockers.
- Maintain expertise in AI, application architecture, cloud-native development, and AI management and security; represent Microsoft in customer and developer communities.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or bachelor’s degree in those fields and 4+ years; or 5+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
- Expertise in AI Foundry and application architecture, including Agentic AI framework, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, and Responsible AI.
- Application architecture or development experience.
- Expertise in cloud-native development technologies such as APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven architecture, and Python, Java, or .NET.
Nice to have
- 6+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, or technology management; relevant certifications.
Pay
USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year (base salary); USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year (base salary, San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)
Tools
Azure, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Sentinel, Python, Java, .NET
AI focus
Accelerate Agentic AI integration into development and deployment workflows; maintain expertise in Agentic AI frameworks, Responsible AI, Gen AI Ops, orchestration, and monitoring.
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