Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

181116109

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or comparable industry experience.
• 12 + years of experience shipping commercial software.
• 5+ years of experience with C++ and/or C#.
• Deep technical experience including leading others.
• Researching (and perhaps building prototypes and beyond) some new ways of doing something.
• Demonstrates a mastery of communication and data presentation and storytelling skills.Exhibits a growth mindset and humility, while working through high stakes scenarios.
• Proven experiences as an ally who can further a more open, diverse, and inclusive workplace with a goal of everyone feeling like they belong.
• Demonstrated hypothesis-driven, problem-solving orientation.
• Solid technical and analytical skills, and a passion for customers.
• Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on Open-Source projects in GitHub.
• Experience with Windows development tools and technologies, including Visual Studio and the Windows SDK. XAML familiarity is a plus.
• Win32 application and systems programming experience will be a bonus.

We are building a center of excellence for client platform in Windows India organization. The platform enables first-party and third-party developers to build amazing Windows apps. As a
Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing high-quality software components and libraries for Windows Developers.

• You will be exposing the capabilities via APIs which need to follow consistent patterns, are scalable, extensible and maintainable.
• You will also play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and identifying opportunities for our developers.
• You will have the amazing opportunity learn and grow by working closely with the architects, senior engineers, Program Managers, and AI/ML scientists who contribute to the overall technical vision and strategy of the “architectural how” of how we build a scalable architecture with great fundamentals (such as performance, power, reliability). And you may need to interact with our amazing open resource community developers via GitHub.