Expoint – all jobs in one place
מציאת משרת הייטק בחברות הטובות ביותר מעולם לא הייתה קלה יותר
Limitless High-tech career opportunities - Expoint

Microsoft Senior Principal Software Engineer 
Taiwan, Taoyuan City 
596950757

02.09.2025

We are building a planet scale multi-modal database from the ground up. You will be part of the team that is reimagining the databases in the era of LLMs by deeply integrating AI into all parts of the stack.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead and collaborate with a team of passionate engineers, driving ideas to impactful results in a fast-paced environment. You will be working on building and using system-level software (e.g., distributed systems, operating systems, databases, networking, etc.). You are experienced in software engineering from ideation and architecture design, to writing high-quality code, to shipping.

Qualifications

Required 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

  • Experience in shipping products and services.
  • Currently programming/coding in your current or most recent role.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ Year(s) experience in Prompt Engineering
  • Experience with Fine Tuning and PyTorch
  • Experience with CUDA
Responsibilities
  • This will be an individual contributor role with the majority of time focused on coding responsibilities.
  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.
  • Provides technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.
  • Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
  • 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers.