Optical Network Developer jobs at Microsoft in Taiwan, Taoyuan City

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
• Proven experience in TCP/IP BGP, MPLS.
• Experience working with Python/Go/Rust.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • or related field.
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Network engineering experience in a cloud provider, internet service provider, or large enterprise environment.
• Professional software development experience in the networking domain, including proficiency in C#, Python, Go, REST, YAML, and workflow systems.

• Offers modification and improvements to network technologies based on existing and emerging industry knowledge to contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of reliable, scalable, and high-performance networks.
• Works in collaboration with teams across a single organization to develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance, network designs; independently produces design documents and implementation plans.
• Partners with Engineering and Program Management teams to understand customer, business, and technical requirements to propose network designs or modifications to architecture;participatesin architecture reviews to ensure designs and modifications meet all functional, performance, scale, and compliance requirements.
• Influencestelemetry analytics designs to betteridentifypatterns that reveal errors and unexpected problems;leveragesan understanding of network architectures and infrastructure at scale to develop, measure, track, and improve the quality of telemetry pipelines that support automated monitoring and incident response.
• Develops process or technology solutionsthat proactivelyresolve issues with processes, physical network devices, and/or tooling.
• Makes optimaluse of infrastructure and resources through simple designs and byleveraging

Required Qualification(s):

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in fiber optic network design, installation, and maintenance
• Proficiency with relevant design software and testing equipment
• Ability to interpret fiber plant documentation and schematics
• Familiarity with fusion splicing techniques to accomplish spicing of fiber optic cables
• Implementation of network protection techniques
• Familiarity with OTDR, light source and power meter testing to verify cable integrity and performance
• Experience with design and capacity planning
• Professional certification in fiber optics (e.g., CFOT, FOA, BICSI)

Additional Qualifications:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualification(s):

• BICSI RCDD certification preferred but not required
• Knowledge of network security principles and best practices
• Experience with building automation and tools to drive efficiency in systems operations and processes

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 21, 2025.

Network Design and Implementation

• You will apply Knowledge of cabling infrastructure, Industry Trends, and Field Data towards implementation and operations.
• Conduct site surveys and feasibility studies to determine optimal cable routes, circuit designs and network layouts.
• Analyze client requirements and translate them into technical specifications and network blueprints.
• Use Visio software and network modeling tools to create detailed network and circuit designs, including cable pathways, splice or connection points, and hardware locations.
• Assess existing infrastructure for compatibility and integration with new fiber optic systems.
• Develop Bill of Materials (BOM) and cost estimates for proposed solutions.

Maintain and Operate Networks

• You will monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot network cabling infrastructure; participate in on-call/Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) duties and create root cause analysis for network incidents.
• You will apply Continuous Improvement, testing and validation of network and optical devices.
• Oversee or perform the installation of fiber optic cables (jumper cables, aerial, underground, and indoor), ensuring compliance with manufacturer specifications and industry standards.
• Install fiber distribution panels, patch panels, and other related hardware.
• Perform single or ribbon fusion splicing of fiber optic cable when required.
• Implement network protection techniques including slack loops, armored cabling, and secure enclosures.
• Perform optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) testing, light source and power meter tests, and visual fault inspections to verify cable integrity and performance.
• Analyze and interpret test results, identifying any faults, losses, or performance issues.
• Identify, isolate, and resolve faults in fiber optic cables, connectors, splices, and active/passive components.
• Maintain accurate maintenance logs, repair histories, and inventory records.
• Coordinate with service line owners to contract third-party vendors and team members for complex repairs and upgrades.
• Conduct audits of fiber infrastructure including cables, live circuits, and cable rooms.
• Deployment Management - You will work within a team of engineers to manage network deployments.
• You will troubleshoot enterprise grade layer 1 networks.

Supporting People and Execution

• Collaboration - You will collaborate within and across teams by proactively sharing information with an appropriate level of detail for their audience; overcome obstacles by resolving conflicts and issues across interdependent teams and engage with partners and stakeholders so issues can be resolved, and mutual objectives are met.
• Mentorship / Development - You will mentor and provide feedback to other engineers, while also proactively seeking mentorship and feedback from others; share ideas and insights for improving team-oriented behaviors, including DevOps and live site handling skills.
• Participate in weekly Sprint planning meetings to review completed, on-going, and upcoming work tasks.

Collaborates with internal stakeholders in the pre-sale process by understanding business requirements and providing industry and technical input and/or solution offerings to help shape the deal. Supports drafting proposals and/or statement of work (SOW). Provides input on staffing and skill requirements for delivery to Resource Deployment, Technical Delivery Managers (TDMs), and/or Project Managers. Uses business, industry, and technology strategies to map customer/partner requirements to the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions. Engages others appropriately to understand and define customer requirements.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 3+ years leadership experience.
  • OR 4+ years equivalent related experience.
• 2 Years of experience with architecture, deployment, and/or operations of Government classified networks.
• Experience working with Ansible, Splunk and/or Solarwinds.
• Experience working with L2/L3 switching/routing platforms, application networking and networking protocols to include BGP, OSPF, VRRP, LACP.

Other Requirements:

• Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  • The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance . Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
  • Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business.
• Technical certifications based on domain/service line (e.g., Azure, Security, Dynamics).
• Delivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management).
• 10+ years of experience as an engineer or technical Program Manager.
• 4+ years of experience with architecture, deployment, and operations of Government classified networks.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud networking implementations with preferred focus on onboarding customer infrastructure to cloud.
• CCNP or higher or equivalent professional certification; CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Ability to work in a flexible, fast-paced environment.
• Highly effective communication and collaboration with customers, partners, and across teams is required.
• Excellent communication skills and team player with ability to build solid relationships at all levels, across teams, geographies, and business functions.
• Excellent judgement, decision-making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure when the situation is ambiguous.
• Applied experience with firewall, network security, or network monitoring solutions, including vendor platforms to include Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower/ASA, and/or Juniper SRX. Applied experience with Azure Networking, Azure Kubernetes, Yaml scripting, and Bicept ARM.
• Applied experience with privacy encryption protocols/capabilities to include VPN, IPSec, and TLS.
• Applied experience with cloud or other software-defined networking implementations to include networking authentication, authorization, RBAC, compute, databases.
• Experience with Linux and Windows experiences, with focus on shell commands and scripting.
• Experience in one or more programming languages: C#, C++, Java, Python.
• Experience in network automation using scripting languages such as Python.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 20th, 2025.

Collaborates with the Project Manager, Pillar Leads, and other internal technical resources to jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use of proof of concepts and pilots. Works with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders to gather and ratify requirements and constraints.

Collaborates with the Account Team and/or Bid Team to understand the business solution/problem. Drives agreement, based on the customer’s priorities, requirements/constraints, approach, principles, concepts, and expectations. Builds and documents a realistically costed, advanced/complex Solution Approach with traceability of requirements, constraints, decisions, and tradeoffs that balances risk, technical credibility, and technical innovation to meet customer need, predominantly based on existing solution offerings and/or reference architecture.

Manages and ensures the all-up delivery of consulting engagements, as necessary. Defines and documents the architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach.

Proposes and develops new solutions to scale across multiple customers/partners. Builds and maintains an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to ensure the rationale for the business solution's Architecture is known and understood.

• Embody our

We’re looking for engineers who share our belief that AI will fundamentally transform software development and who are eager to help shape that future. You will collaborate with experienced engineers, engage with the open-source community, and contribute to platforms that redefine how developers build, debug, and ship software. Our work spans from high-level developer experience to deep technical systems that require a strong understanding of low-level programming concepts such as memory management, performance optimization, and system architecture.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Solid programming skills in one or more of the following languages: C#, Java, C++, or Python.
• Passion for developer experience and an eagerness to understand what makes great tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across diverse, distributed teams.

• Design and develop robust, scalable, and maintainable software components that power modern developer tools.
• Leverage AI-powered technologies (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based code tools) to accelerate engineering workflows and contribute to the development of AI-assisted features.
• Dogfood internal AI tools and platforms, providing feedback and insights to improve usability, reliability, and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with engineers across product teams and the open-source community to co-design and iterate on developer experiences.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and agile ceremonies, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Research and experiment with emerging AI techniques and integrate them into everyday engineering practices to boost productivity.

Required / Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation AND 5+ years technical experience with windows or Linux administration  OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related degree.
• 3+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems
• Expertise in problem solving and analyzing distributed systems and critical production service environments
• Exposure to, and understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems, specifically RHEL 7+ or Server 2016+ or similar.
• Focus on throughput management, troubleshooting and security hardening

• Maintain & Operate Networks
• Designs proactive solutions to optimize infrastructure, resolve issues, and improve performance using automation and simple designs.
• Troubleshoots complex live site issues using deep knowledge of network components, tools, and APIs; ensures sustainable, automated fixes with minimal customer impact. Participates in on-call duties and mentors others.
• Contributes to incident response across teams, ensures quality postmortems, and analyzes historical data to identify and prioritize recurring issues.
• Leverages data to assess impact, identify trends, and drive decisions that enhance network performance and customer experience.
• Network Design and Implementation
• Supports design and security reviews to prevent issues pre-release, using expertise in network implementation, telemetry, and root cause analysis.
• Collaborates across teams to develop scalable, high-performance network designs and independently creates design and implementation plans.
• Supporting People and Execution
• Shares information effectively across teams, manages dependencies, and seeks feedback and mentorship.
• Embody our

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in system (compute,networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing AI/ML scale up and scale out networking for accelerator-based hardware systems, as well as developing MAC/PCS and SERDES for high-speed interfaces and high-density connectivity equipment.
• 5+ years of experience to work across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) toidentify

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years ofexperience developing GPU, FPGA basedaccelerator platforms for AI/ML used cases
• Great to have proventrack recordof bringing up, integrating, and deploying new hardware technology.
• Knowledge of high-volume silicon (SoCs, GPUs, or FPGAs),compute, storage, and/or networking design, manufacturing, and deployment.
• Understanding on Networking hardware - QSFP-dd cables, DACs, AECs, Cable Backplanes, NICs, PHY, Switches
• Ability to define validation test cases to qualify end to end network across functionality,performanceand scale testing
• Ability to trouble shoot network issues at multiple layers - Physical layer, Datalink and Network Layer, Protocol layer
• Great to have: Understanding on AI Network, Network Collectives, Traffic profiles in AI networks, Ultra Ethernet
• Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.
• Experience managing hardware programsthroughthe entire product lifecycle.
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 23rd, 2025.

• silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to buildstate-of-the-artaccelerator hardware solutions.
• Participatein architectural discussions and evaluatenetworking performancerequiredto meet the demands of AI/ML workloads
• Analyze new interfaces and subsystems to develop integrationplans, analyze power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide recommendations.
• Define systembehavior and concept of operations for the platform to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Azure datacenter software, serviceability, telemetry, and customer expectations.
• Perform NUDD (new, unique,differentand difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations.
• Drive technical requirements and ensure the solution is flexible and scalable across the full (HW/FW/SW) stack.
• Enable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture of the product, anddelivering toproduct goals across quality, reliability,and performance.
• Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies in a seamless manner.

As a Microsoft(DCPM), you will perform trouble shooting for service incidents, manage assigned projects to meet service delivery objectives as well escalate to appropriate stakeholders to remove obstacles. You will also follow safety policies and procedures and participate in root cause analysis (RCA) of incidents. This job will allow you to build a solid understanding of data center procedures, engage in collarobation across various teams as well as provide mentorship across data centers by sharing best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Qualification or equivalent AND 2+ years experience supporting IT equipment or related technology or delivering server and network deployment projects in large-scale environments
  • OR equivalent experience

• 1+yrs experience managing IT or network infrastructure projects from planning through execution, including stakeholder escalation and risk mitigation.

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
• Criminal Justice Information Services: This position requires passing a background check conducted through the CJIS criminal justice information system by authorized local, state, and/or federal agencies .

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ experience in Critical Environment infrastructures (e.g., UPS, Generator, AHU) or working in physical IT infrastructures (e.g., Servers, SANs, Networking, Capacity, DC Rack/Enclosures, structured cabling).
• Technical College degree in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Applicable certifications: ASICS/Inventory Control, CompTIA, Microsoft, Network Certifications, PMP, ITIL, CDCP.
• Availability to work a Twilight/Flexible shift (10am-6pm or 12pm-8pm).

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Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate conscientiousness on cost adheres to budget requirements; keep costs reasonable and contribute to staying within budget.
• Follow and adhere to safety and security policies and procedures. Report immediately any safety or security issues or concerns.

• Perform troubleshooting for service incidents and escalates, as appropriate, to meet SLA/OLAs, with minimal disruption to the client/customer and business.
• Recognize potential customer impact of other events and issues (e.g., customer lockdown), communicate potential impact, and plan for impact accordingly.
• Proactively review schedules and avoid conflicts when possible. Identify, coordinate, manage expectations, and offer alternatives when defining customer solutions.
• Manage relationships with clients and suppliers to ensure that all expectations are clarified, understood, documented, and met.

• Suggest ways for reducing the risk of performing maintenance; work with others to accommodate scheduling needs.

• In alignment with management priorities, hold self-accountable for the end-to-end service quality, completeness, and resulting customer experience (including but not limited to availability, safety, security, customer service). Support escalation of issues to appropriate owner.

• Embody our and .