Cloud-Native .NET Microservices Engineer

tegnainc; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) plan with company match

Teladoc and mental health support

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

TEGNA Inc. is seeking a skilled backend developer to build and operate C#/.NET microservices powering our content management and streaming platforms. You’ll work on Azure Function Apps, implement event-driven workflows with Service Bus, and contribute to RESTful APIs while containerized services run in Kubernetes.

Collaboration with an agile team, with a focus on reliability and scale, awaits. You’ll grow in cloud-native, event-driven development within a modern Azure/AWS environment, guided by

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services.
• Working proficiency in C#/.NET; experience with serverless/Azure Functions is a plus.
• Understanding of RESTful API design and basic distributed-systems concepts.
• Exposure to messaging or event-driven patterns (Service Bus, queues, pub/sub) is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native development (Azure and/or AWS).
• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum team with Git-based source control.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform, and a habit of writing tests.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and maintain C#/.NET microservices, primarily as Azure Function Apps.
• Implement event-driven workflows using Azure Service Bus and other messaging patterns.
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs, and contribute to containerized, cloud-agnostic services on Kubernetes.
• Turn stories and epics into working implementation, and participate in design discussions, code reviews, and testing.
• Help operate services in production: monitoring, troubleshooting, and addressing performance and reliability issues.
• Work cloud-native across our Azure/AWS environment, following IaC and CI/CD practices.

Skills

C#/.NET

Azure Functions

REST APIs

Event-driven

Docker/Kubernetes

Git/CI-CD

Azure/AWS

Unit testing

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

TEGNA Inc. is seeking a skilled backend developer to build and operate C#/.NET microservices powering our content management and streaming platforms. You’ll work on Azure Function Apps, implement event-driven workflows with Service Bus, and contribute to RESTful APIs while containerized services run in Kubernetes.

Collaboration with an agile team, with a focus on reliability and scale, awaits. You’ll grow in cloud-native, event-driven development within a modern Azure/AWS environment, guided by