Principal Software Engineering; Global Infrastructure-North America Software Center

Position: Principal 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 Software Engineer to help define the architecture, technical vision, and long-term roadmap for TSMC's enterprise infrastructure platform.

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 Build Cloud-Base Platforms for:

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

Multi-Region Infrastructure. Design Resilient Global Infrastructure Supporting

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

Platform Engineering. Lead Development Of Self-service Engineering Platforms Including

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

Site Reliability Engineering. Drive Engineering Excellence In

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

Technical Leadership

• 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.

Minimum Requirements

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

Required Technical Experience Cloud Infrastructure. Deep expertise designing enterprise infrastructure on:

• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Private Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Multi-region deployments

Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, identity, and resilience.

Infrastructure Automation. Strong Experience With

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

Distributed Systems. Deep Understanding Of

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

Service Mesh & Networking. Experience With

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

Programming. Strong software engineering skills in one or more of:

• Go
• Python
• Java

Experience building platform services, operators, or infrastructure tooling.

Preferred Qualifications Experience designing infrastructure supporting:

• Thousands of engineers
• Global engineering organizations
• Multi-region deployments
• AI platforms
• Data platforms
• Manufacturing systems
• Hybrid cloud
• Mission-critical enterprise environments

Eligibility

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the United States. We currently cannot provide sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa. Employment at TSMC is contingent upon passing a background check and drug screening. In compliance with Washington state regulations, cannabis (marijuana) use will not be included in the drug screening.

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