Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

30121380

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 10+ years of experience in software design and development, with 1+ year of hands-on work in GenAI and a good understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs).
  
• Experience in managing highly complex, large scale software engineering projects with 2+ years people management experience.
  
• Demonstrated experience in collaborating with geographically distributed partner teams.

Other Requirements:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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 Master'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.
• 4+ years people management experience.

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers working on the development of Excel Copilot.
• Be the leader of a high performing, talented group of engineers and foster a diverse, inclusive, and result driven team culture.
• Model, coach, and care for employees and peers, helping everyone to bring their best self to work and enable their career growth.
• Drives and supports partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within teams.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Coaches others and acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Seeks new knowledge 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.