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We are seeking an experienced Windows Application Developer - Partner Engineer to help us enable our strategic ISV partners to bring their desktop applications into the Windows ecosystem and the Microsoft Store.
About the Role
Work across Microsoft teams including Windows Store, WinGet, and product groups.
Identify the right internal stakeholders, escalate technical blockers, and drive solutions spanning multiple teams.
Responsibilities
Microsoft Internal Navigation: Work across Microsoft teams including Windows Store, WinGet, and product groups. Identify the right internal stakeholders, escalate technical blockers, and drive solutions spanning multiple teams.
Commercial Software Distribution: Background working at companies that ship and distribute commercial software products. Exposure to packaging, deployment, signing, Store submission, and operating system integration.
Windows Ecosystem Depth: Understanding of installers, drivers, OS-level APIs, software packaging, and Windows platform integrations. Deep understanding of how Windows behaves under real-world constraints (installation restrictions, group policies, driver conflicts, update dependencies, and system-level limitations).
Proactivity / Problem-Solving Definition: Ability to independently reproduce issues, create sandbox environments, and build reference implementations. Proactively investigates and reproduces complex issues with ambiguity (e.g. spinning up sandboxes, isolating root causes, and proposing solutions independently). Strong problem-solving skills across low-level platform issues and technical ambiguity.
Outreach Expectation Clarity: Support outreach efforts to software vendors not yet publishing in the Microsoft Store. Help qualify leads, follow up with ISVs, and support partner adoption initiatives.