Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

384716769

Trust & Security Services (TSS) org, provides integrated, intelligent, and secure services to all of Microsoft’s engineering teams to ingest, protect, and distribute Microsoft products at scale. TSS is chartered with the following responsibilities:

• Lead and provide a comprehensive suite of PKI lifecycle management services. We maintain the highest standards of both logical and physical security to ensure that Microsoft’s brand remains trusted and secure.
• Codesign all products delivered to Microsoft’s customers. We Sign all software binaries installed on a customer’s machines as well as many of Microsoft’s services components.
• Provide cross-industry malware scanning capability to Microsoft. To help ensure that all product teams are compliant with policy, we provide an anti-malware scanning service that is powered by many of the major third-party Anti-Malware engines (including Windows Defender).
• Provide regional “digital manufacturing” services to sign product bits, release, store, and distribute those to global customers.
• Manage Microsoft’s Product Activation and Licensing services.
• We work on massive-scale cloud services that securely distribute software content to billions of Windows and Linux devices. Our technology empowers customers around the world to keep their devices up to date and secure.

High level overview

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to provide critical thinking and a high degree of technical innovation and attention to detail while serving as a trusted advisor to your project team. You will need to balance many complex and competing technical priorities and be able to actively architect, design, develop, and test solutions.

Experience:

• Total of 12+ years of demonstrated work experience in the Information Systems industry.
• 8+ years of solid Design/Development/Testing experience using large/complex application using various Microsoft technologies (C#, .NET, SQL Server, BizTalk, Share Point etc.)
• 4 years of system/solution architecture background.

Architecture / Design:

• Extensive understanding and hand on experience in integration, message orientation, event driven and other Enterprise architectural patterns.
• Strong understanding of SOA, pros and cons and best practices.
• Experience in Broad range of Microsoft tools and technologies.
• Extensive business process and UML modeling experience and ability to communicate models effectively to development team.
• Good understanding of Enterprise scale technologies and developing large scale out services.
• Ability to evaluate architectural options (complexity, performance, high-availability, scalability, durability) and make right recommendation for implementation
• Understanding of information architecture and data modeling concepts

Engineering practices:

• Good experience on Requirement/Design/Code Review & Inspections practices
• Experience with any of the following testing: performance testing, security testing, privacy testing, accessibility testing, and localization/globalization testing.
• Experience using structured design and modeling techniques

Other skills:

• Ability to work in cross functional teams and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to collaborate with and influence various stakeholders without authority
• Domain knowledge in one or more vertical industry
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to handle ambiguity and collaborate across multiple groups and disciplines
• Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision making skills
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills with a solid understanding of testing practices

Skills (nice to have)

• Knowledge on Microsoft Azure technology.
• Knowledge on analytics, data mining, data visualization and machine learning
• Experience working within a global delivery model
• Experience with DevOps model including but not limited to Continuous Delivery, Telemetry, Flighting/Experimentation, Test-Driven Development, and Testing in Production
• Deep understanding of agile development practices

• Writing clean, well thought-out design and code with focus on quality, simplicity, & maintainability.
• Consider customer’s perspective and experiences when designing systems.
• Communicate effectively and partner well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high quality solutions from envisioning to deployment to live site availability.
• Drive, coach and mentor others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews.
• Responsible for understanding and adapting to new technologies, tools, methods and processes.
• Help to drive current and future state Architecture for the group.
• Technology Evaluation and recommendation for application architecture problems.
• Creation and adoption of Technology Patterns and Practices.
• Work with central IT organization to build better Architectural standards.
• Drive Architectural consolidation and simplification.
• Role Model Our Microsoft Values: through behaviors and actions, set an example and represent the Microsoft Values of leveraging others work and helping others to be successful.

Personal Screening (Cloud Screening) -

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 Screen: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.