Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

13729911

andSenior Software Engineer

As a, you will work on challenging distributed systems problems and build high-scale systems . You will get an amazing opportunity to help design and implement key new platform features in AVD and ensure that those features scale and are highly resilient.  You will extend your knowledge of cloud compute, hypervisors, desktop virtualization, storage at scale, and other technical areas. You will be part of a team designing new platform capabilities involving virtualized compute, storage, networking for our core products to enhance the value to our customer base.  You will also be a part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers that behave more like a technology startup.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, C, C++, or C#
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer designing, implementing, and shipping cloud services or software products.
• Experience with Azure technologies including but not limited to Kubernetes and designing web services at scale including but not limited to web sockets.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements.
• Experience setting up and managing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.

Other Requirements

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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

• 2+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud 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 April 15, 2025.

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g. design, cost). Creates design documents and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions.
• Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy.
• Leads efforts for creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, interprets results, and decides on next steps or ship decision from results.
• Designs and develops large scale distributed software services or Core OS (operating system) and Virtualization components.
• Adheres to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Develops “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Improves test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Considers testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
• Focuses on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.