Senior Microservices Developer

TEGNA, Inc.; Knoxville, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TEGNA Inc. is seeking a Senior Developer to build and evolve the microservices behind the Content Management platform, running on Azure with C#/.NET Function Apps and an Azure Service Bus backbone.

You will design, implement, and mentor on scalable, event-driven services, collaborating with the CMS Solutions Architect and Cloud Architect in an Agile/Scrum environment. Join a team delivering high-traffic media workflows, with a focus on code quality, observability, and modernization of legacy

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend services.
• Strong hands-on expertise in C#/.NET, including serverless/Azure Functions and RESTful API design.
• Solid experience with event-driven and messaging architectures (Azure Service Bus, queues, or equivalent pub/sub systems).
• Strong understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals: reliability, idempotency, concurrency, and observability, and a genuine concern for code structure and design.
• Production experience running cloud-native services in Azure and/or AWS.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and elevating team practices.
• Fluent in Agile/Scrum delivery and Git-based source control; exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform is a plus.
• Media, streaming, high-traffic content platforms, or Graph-RAG content systems experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate C#/.NET microservices, primarily as Azure Function Apps, that power content management workflows.
• Own event-driven service design using Azure Service Bus — modeling messages and handling idempotency, ordering, retries, and failure gracefully.
• Lead technical design for meaningful features and services, and set standards for code quality, testing, and observability across the team.
• Mentor mid-level and offshore developers, raising the overall technical maturity of the team.
• Help convert epics into actionable, well-architected stories alongside the team lead.
• Drive the modernization of legacy content systems into scalable, maintainable, event-driven services.
• Partner with the CMS Solutions Architect and the Cloud Architect and cloud team (who own infrastructure realization, CI/CD, and standards).
• Work cloud-native in an Agile/Scrum team with disciplined source control.

Skills

RESTful API design

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems fundamentals

Agile/Scrum delivery

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Azure Functions

Azure Service Bus

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

Job description

TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.

We are looking for a Senior Developer to help build and evolve the microservices behind TEGNA's Content Management platform — the systems that ingest, manage, and deliver content to millions of users. Our content management side runs on Azure; C#/.NET Function Apps with a Service Bus event backbone, fronted by Akamai. You'll be a technical anchor on the team: designing and implementing services, setting the bar for code quality and structure, and mentoring mid-level and offshore engineers. You'll take the tech briefs and epics that come from the CMS Solutions Architect and shape them into well-structured services, partnering with the Cloud Architect on how those designs are realized in infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate C#/.NET microservices, primarily as Azure Function Apps, that power content management workflows.
• Own event-driven service design using Azure Service Bus — modeling messages and handling idempotency, ordering, retries, and failure gracefully.
• Lead technical design for meaningful features and services, and set standards for code quality, testing, and observability across the team.
• Mentor mid-level and offshore developers, raising the overall technical maturity of the team.
• Help convert epics into actionable, well-architected stories alongside the team lead.
• Drive the modernization of legacy content systems into scalable, maintainable, event-driven services.
• Partner with the CMS Solutions Architect and the Cloud Architect and cloud team (who own infrastructure realization, CI/CD, and standards).
• Work cloud-native in an Agile/Scrum team with disciplined source control.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend services.
• Strong hands-on expertise in C#/.NET, including serverless/Azure Functions and RESTful API design.
• Solid experience with event-driven and messaging architectures (Azure Service Bus, queues, or equivalent pub/sub systems).
• Strong understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals: reliability, idempotency, concurrency, and observability, and a genuine concern for code structure and design.
• Production experience running cloud-native services in Azure and/or AWS.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and elevating team practices.
• Fluent in Agile/Scrum delivery and Git-based source control; exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform is a plus.
• Media, streaming, high-traffic content platforms, or Graph-RAG content systems experience is a plus.

Why Join TEGNA

You'll be a senior technical voice on the team building TEGNA's content management platform at scale, in a modern Azure/AWS hybrid environment. This is an opportunity to shape the services and the engineering practices that power content across all of TEGNA's media properties. We are investing heavily in AI-assisted development, modern cloud-native services, and flexible architecture patterns that let our teams innovate quickly while delivering high-quality, high-impact products.

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.

* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

EEO statement

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We areproud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilitiesin accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [e-mail]