TSMC

Principal Software Engineering (Global Infrastructure)-North America Software Center

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26 days ago
Vancouver, WA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$137k - $199k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect highly available, scalable, automated private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, compute, storage, and infrastructure platforms.
  • Design resilient global infrastructure for worldwide deployments, disaster recovery, cross-region replication, service discovery, traffic management, capacity planning, and infrastructure resilience.
  • Lead self-service platform engineering, including environment provisioning, infrastructure templates, and golden platform templates.
  • Drive reliability engineering, capacity management, incident prevention, performance optimization, SLOs, production readiness, and operational excellence.
  • Partner with AI, data, network and security, and application teams to establish consistent and scalable platform capabilities.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams in North America and Taiwan on common global infrastructure capabilities.
  • Build platform services, operators, and infrastructure tooling using Go, Python, or Java.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 7 years of software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience.
  • At least 3 years leading architecture for cloud-native platforms or distributed infrastructure.
  • At least 1 year of experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Technical Lead.
  • Deep expertise designing enterprise infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP, including cloud networking, compute, storage, identity, and resilience.
  • Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and provisioning automation.
  • Deep understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, consensus algorithms, service discovery, distributed scheduling, load balancing, event-driven architecture, scalability, the CAP theorem, and disaster recovery.
  • Experience with ingress controllers, API gateways, global load balancing, DNS, and traffic routing.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or Java.
  • Preferred experience supporting thousands of engineers, global engineering organizations, multi-region deployments, AI platforms, data platforms, manufacturing systems, hybrid cloud, or mission-critical enterprise environments.
  • Must have legal authorization to work in the United States.

Benefits

  • Starting base salary is typically $137,300 to $183,650 per year, with the Job Grade range extending to $199,100; compensation also includes profit sharing and incentive bonuses.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus a 401(k) plan with employer match.
  • Tuition assistance, 12 holidays per year, and accrued paid time off.
  • Onsite fitness center, game room, physical therapist, and subsidized café.
  • Onsite position in Vancouver, Washington, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; additional hours may be required.
  • Employment is contingent on passing a background check and drug screening.

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About TSMC

10,000+ employees

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is a pure-play semiconductor foundry that manufactures integrated circuits for fabless and systems companies on a contract basis. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, it is the world’s largest chip foundry, with advanced process nodes and fabs in Taiwan and new facilities in Arizona and Japan. Its shares trade on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (2330) with ADRs on the NYSE (TSM).

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