Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Software Development

**Overview** Are you passionate about helping manufacturing customers modernize the way they build, secure, and operate software? As a Cloud & AI Software Solution Engineer for Manufacturing in Germany, you will help customers use 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. In this technical sales role, you will work with developers, architects, platform teams, and technical decision makers to show 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 customer workshops, technical discovery, architecture conversations, demos, pilots, and proofs of concept that help customers move from evaluation to confident adoption. 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. *In line with our Flexible Work approach, for roles at Microsoft Germany, we recommend spending at least two days per week in the office or at the customer site.* **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 that show 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. **Qualifications** Required Qualifications - 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. Preferred Qualifications - 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 Solution Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Germany is € 64,800.00 - € 108,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. --- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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