Microsoft Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services Infrastructure 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

132536782

You'll design and deliver systems that enable partners and ISVs to migrate from other cloud providers, improve core systems performance and efficiencies, and ensure zero customer impact throughout the change management cycle. You will deliver systems to meet our business continuity planning goals, provide telemetry for optimizing the service and drive our response time for detecting and resolving service issues down.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience delivering and interacting with REST API’s and web services across multiple systems.
• Coding, debugging, algorithm design and problem-solving skills.
• Experience designing cloud-scale services and server/service management features.
• Experience mentoring and coaching peers and/or engineers.

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Java
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Collaborate with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner.
• Ability to learn new systems quickly and adapt new methodologies to our service.
• Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components.
• Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design and patterns.
• Familiar with secure software design concepts.
• Proven track record of delivering projects that include multiple components.
• Ability and eagerness to work across and partner with multiple engineering teams to achieve business goals.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
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