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Microsoft Principal Engineer 
Taiwan, Taoyuan City 
29714470

21.05.2025

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Principal/Lead Engineer level experience in software engineering.
  • Extensive hands-on experience in designing and managing high-scale distributed systems in production environments. You possess hard-earned experience and opinions on effective observability, safe deployment practices, and the advisability of pushing code on Fridays.
  • Prior experience building and deploying services running on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Solid knowledge of Kubernetes platform architecture, working principles and components.
  • Extensive experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies, managed Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift
  • Prior experience designing and converging existing services to run on container-based platforms.
  • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure automation, and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible)
  • Experience in applying modern SDLC and livesite operation principles, such as DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Strong track record as a hands-on engineer designing and delivering elegant solutions to meet complex design and architectural challenges in a cloud-native services environment.
  • Excellent communications skills, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers.
  • Solid experience with networking, performance analysis and optimization of web services and software.
  • Prior experience working in the Identity and/or Security domains
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, networking, security model and extensibility
  • Experience in building self-managed Kubernetes "the hard way" from scratch
  • Experience with Kubernetes customization through custom plugins and API extensions (CNI, CSI, controllers, operators)
Responsibilities

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.