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Microsoft Principal Software Engineer - Observability 
Taiwan, Taoyuan City 
651293906

16.10.2025

The service is globally distributed, highly available and resilient, and has very high demands for a robust observability ecosystem that is compliant with geo-regional policies and regulations.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner.

  • Proficiency in C# or C/C++, and strong design, implementation, and debugging skills; knowledge of scripting languages a plus.

  • Deep experience with telemetry and observability standards such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Parquet, Loki, or the Microsoft Observability platform.

  • Experience with distributed systems, performance analysis, databases, and/or large-scale data processing.

  • Strong communication skills (both written and oral).

  • Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.


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:
  • Knowledge of Azure services and observability systems a plus.

  • Experience with data science, analytics and ontology a plus.

  • Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components.

  • Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design and patterns.

  • Familiar with secure software design concepts.

  • Proven track record of delivering projects that include multiple components.

Responsibilities
  • Analyze, design, and implement improvements to how the service generates and processes telemetry, how those telemetry are stored, managed and accessed and how such access policies adhere to various geo-regional policies and regulations while still being easy to use by our engineering teams.
  • Improve performance and security, reduce Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and drive those changes across multiple products in both ODSP and Microsoft.
  • Have strong analytical, design, and development skills with depth in telemetry ecosystems, databases, storage, high performance data structures, and algorithms and a passion for observability.
  • Have a strong development background, excellent communication skills, and a strong foundation in Computer Science.
  • Influence without authority is key to success.