Microsoft Principal Architect 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

622484749

This position is for an Individual Contributor (IC)

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.
• 7+ years of experience in C# or C/C++, and design, implementation, and debugging skills; knowledge of scripting languages.
• Experience with distributed systems, performance analysis, databases, and/or large-scale data processing.
• Experience in storage, high performance data structures, and algorithms, analyzing and improving performance - input/output (I/O), memory, CPU, and concurrency.

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.
• Knowledge of Azure services and systems a plus.
• Experience with financial analysis a plus.
• Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components.
• Familiar with secure software design concepts.
• Track record of delivering projects that include multiple components.
• Experience collaborating with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner andinfluencing without authority.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.

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 April 18, 2025.

• Analyzes, designs, and implements improvements to improve performance and security, reduce Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and drive those changes across multiple products.
• 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.