Principal Technical Lead, Software Engineering; Global Infrastructure-North America Software Center

Join TSMC Washington and help power the future of technology. At TSMC, we don't just make semiconductors; we innovate to transform industries and enhance lives. As the world’s leading semiconductor foundry, we partner with top tech companies to drive advancements in industries such as healthcare, automotive, consumer electronics, and renewable energy. At TSMC Washington, you'll thrive where innovation meets precision manufacturing, and integrity guides our high standards and customer trust.

Our visionary leaders collaborate with clients to achieve groundbreaking results, ensuring our leadership in the semiconductor sector. Explore career opportunities with TSMC Washington and join a company with a commitment to excellence and innovation.

Who We're Looking For

We are seeking a talented and experienced Global Infrastructure Tech Leader to define the architecture, technical vision, and long-term roadmap for TSMC's enterprise infrastructure platform.

You will lead the design of cloud-native infrastructure that supports engineering, AI, enterprise applications, manufacturing systems, and developer productivity across multiple global regions.

Working closely with engineering teams in North America and Taiwan, you will architect highly available, scalable, and automated infrastructure platforms that power thousands of applications and mission-critical manufacturing services.



Key Responsibilities

Define Infrastructure Strategy

• Define the long-term technical vision for TSMC's global infrastructure platform.
• Develop architectural standards and engineering best practices.
• Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives across global engineering organizations.
• Establish multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with business growth.

• Private cloud
• Hybrid cloud
• Multi-cloud infrastructure
• Compute platforms
• Storage platforms
• Infrastructure services

• Worldwide deployments
• Disaster recovery
• Cross-region replication
• Global service discovery
• Global traffic management
• Capacity planning
• Infrastructure resilience

• Environment provisioning
• Self-service infrastructure
• Golden platform templates

• Reliability engineering
• Capacity management
• Incident prevention
• Performance optimization
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Production readiness
• Operational excellence

• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical governance.
• Influence technical strategy across multiple engineering organizations.
• Partner with AI, Data, Network & Security, and Application teams to ensure platform consistency and scalability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across North America and Taiwan to establish common platform capabilities.

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading architecture for cloud-native platforms or distributed infrastructure.
• 3+ years’ experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Technical Lead.
• Strong technical communication skills for collaborating with global cross-functional teams.

• AWS, Azure, GCP
• Private Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Multi-region deployments
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, identity, and resilience.

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Infrastructure as Code
• Configuration management
• Provisioning automation

• High availability
• Fault tolerance
• Consensus algorithms
• Service discovery
• Distributed scheduling
• Load balancing
• Event-driven architecture
• Scalability
• CAP theorem
• Disaster recovery

• Ingress Controllers
• API Gateways
• Global Load Balancing
• DNS
• Traffic routing

• Go
• Python
• Java
• Experience…