Microsoft Principal Software Engineer Manager 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

154899602

In this role, you will lead a team designing scalable systems, collaborating across organizational boundaries, and laying the groundwork for service teams to build with confidence. You will contribute to strategic decisions, guide execution across a broad technical surface, and support both technical depth and leadership development. The position offers exposure to complex engineering challenges and the opportunity to deliver solutions informed by both qualitative feedback and quantitative data.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to,C, C++, C#, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) of experienceof coding/designing experience in distributed systems cloud-based services.
• 2+ year(s) of experienceyears people management experience.

Other 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 Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Scienceotrelated technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to,C, C++, C#, or Rust
  • OR Master'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 Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ year(s) of experienceyears people management experience.
• 1+ year(s)of coding/designing experience in distributed systems cloud based services.

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 10, 2025.

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.