Senior Service Engineer

** Overview*
* Microsoft Digital (MSD) builds and operates the products and services that support Microsoft's business and technology operations. MSD partners across the company to deliver technology solutions that enable employees to work efficiently, securely, and effectively. The organization brings together engineering, operations, and business perspectives to drive digital transformation, improve service delivery, and support Microsoft's ongoing business priorities.

We invite you to explore opportunities to contribute, collaborate, and grow within our organization.

The purpose of this role is to improve the reliability, efficiency, and user experience of Email & Calendaring services (powered by Exchange Online) and related Microsoft 365 enterprise services operating at global scale. This role applies service engineering, automation, telemetry, and operational practices to support high-volume, business-critical services for a worldwide customer base. The position focuses on addressing incidents and recurring service challenges through engineering solutions, automation, and data-driven decision making.

The role also requires collaboration across multiple time zones, partnering with product teams, support organizations, business stakeholders, and an extended engineering team based in the India time zone to deliver secure, compliant, resilient, and user-focused service outcomes.

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** Senior Service Engineer
** contributes to the delivery and operation of foundational services that support Microsoft's technology environment.

+ Contribute to the development and execution of service engineering solutions across Email & Calendaring, Microsoft 365 collaboration services, and partner teams. Apply structured intake, prioritization, delivery tracking, and operational readiness practices to support service quality. Utilize telemetry, reporting, and service health insights to identify trends, assess impact, surface risks, and inform service improvements.

+ Respond to live-site incidents, escalations, and complex service issues by participating in root-cause analysis, coordinating with engineering and operations stakeholders, implementing long-term solutions, and developing automation to reduce recurring issues and manual effort. Apply Microsoft security, privacy, compliance, and operational standards while improving reliability, supportability, and user experience across cloud and hybrid environments.

+ Collaborate with service teams, product groups, support organizations, and business stakeholders to share information, align priorities, and translate operational requirements into engineering outcomes. Help establish clarity around ownership, dependencies, impact, and success measures to support effective cross-team execution.

+ Support the ongoing development and improvement of Email & Calendaring and related Microsoft 365 services by sharing operational practices, lessons learned, and automation approaches. Provide technical guidance through documentation, operational reviews, and knowledge sharing activities that contribute to service quality, engineering maturity, and team effectiveness.

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** Responsibilities*
* ** Microsoft 365 Service Engineering and Modernization*
* + Collaborate across service, product, and operational environments to clarify requirements, establish ownership, align stakeholders, and translate priorities into engineering plans and service deliverables.

+ Design, operate, maintain, and improve Email & Calendaring services and Microsoft 365 communication platforms to support reliability, productivity, service health, security, and operational efficiency.

+ Develop automation and telemetry-driven solutions using technologies such as AI platforms, Power Shell, Microsoft Graph API, Power Platform, and related tools to reduce manual effort, improve operational processes, and address recurring service issues.

+ Partner with product engineering teams (for example, Exchange Online, Substrate, and Transport), service management, support organizations, and business stakeholders to evaluate new capabilities and support readiness, adoption, deployment, and service transition activities.

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