Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

313226483

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C, C++ or C#
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
    
• 3+ years experience in GPU based distributed system development and optimization.

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:

• Familiarity with large scale recommendation system architecture.
• Experience in distributed system engineering and high-performance programming.
  
• Experience in deep learning online system design, implementation and qualification.
  
• Experience in profiling and analyzing distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $135,800 - CAD $253,000 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 25, 2025.

• Develops and maintains a large-scale distributed CPU/GPU ranking platform to support real-time processing for millions of requests per second.
• Implements the features with high efficiency, extensibility, diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple and complex issues and escalates as necessary.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalates issues to appropriate owners.