Platform Service Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Service Engineering

Compensation

$85,400 – $168,100/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Redmond, Washington
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: Sep 23, 2026

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Platform Service Engineer to support and operate critical cloud infrastructure for services such as Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and Microsoft Azure. The role covers virtualized Windows and Linux infrastructure, bare-metal server configuration, firmware and driver updates, RAID and IPMI, hardware troubleshooting, monitoring, security compliance, automation, and CI/CD DevOps processes. It requires a bachelor's degree or trade certification in a relevant field or equivalent experience, and offers partial remote work. The typical U.S. base pay range is USD 85,400–168,100 per year, with higher ranges for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.

Required Skills

Windows Server
Linux
Hyper-V
PowerShell
CI/CD
Hardware troubleshooting
Data protection
Service metrics
Configuration management

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or trade certification in a relevant field, or equivalent experience
Required Previous Experiences: Experience managing and delivering multiple cross-group server and service projects at scale
Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field plus an internship in software, network, service, or systems engineering, or equivalent experience
Familiarity with enterprise large-scale cloud or distributed systems
Basic understanding of Windows Server and enterprise Linux, including automated configuration and system administration
Basic understanding of configuration management with PowerShell DSC, Puppet, Chef, or similar
Project or lab work with server and tooling platforms across multiple infrastructure services
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