Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

384295542

As ain the Turing team, you will leverage your skills and experience to help build the platform that powers enterprise Microsoft’s Copilots. You will work closely with applied scientists and engineers on building and designing both backend platform capabilities as well as core Copilot scenarios aimed at delighting our customers. You will be responsible for building scalable, performant, and cutting-edge features. This involves defining the architecture, implementation plan, ensuring everything is tested and robust, and improving processes to contribute to our best practices.

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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of experience in technical design, problem-solving, and debugging.
• 5+ years of experience with architecting large system and seeing them to production.

• 5+ year(s) of industry experience building, designing, managing and delivering highly available, large-scale: cloud services and/or distributed systems / services on a cloud platform.

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.

• Experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, release, system level application design and development, performance tuning, telemetry design and/or analysis.
• Demonstrated programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications.
• Proficient analytical skills with systematic and structured approaches to software design.

• Leads design discussions: Facilitates design meetings, creates design documents, and ensures alignment with project goals.
• Ensures system architecture: Designs system architecture that meets security, compliance, and scalability requirements.

Engineering Excellence

• Enhances and reuses developer tools: Develops and maintains tools that support code creation, testing, and deployment.
• Stays current with new trends: Continuously learns and adapts to new technologies and methodologies to improve product performance.

Implementation

• Mentors others: Guides team members to produce extensible and maintainable code through code reviews and pair programming.
• Leads implementation and deployment: Oversees the implementation and deployment of solutions, ensuring they meet quality standards.
• Breaks down project vision: Translates project vision into actionable milestones and guides the team in project estimation and planning.

Reliability and Supportability

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI): Monitors systems, responds to incidents, and restores services to ensure reliability.
• Leads efforts to reduce incident volume: Analyzes incident patterns and implements broad resolutions to minimize future incidents.

Understand User Requirements

• Partners with stakeholders: Collaborates with stakeholders to gather and understand user requirements and expectations.
• Incorporates continuous feedback: Uses feedback from users and stakeholders to iteratively improve designs and solutions.