Senior Microservices Engineer | Azure, AKS, APIs

Delta Dental of California; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 92,500 - 200,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay

401(k) with matching

Medical & pharmacy benefits

Dental & vision benefits

Paid time off + holidays

Job summary

Delta Dental of California is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Microservices) to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high‑performing microservices for enterprise platforms. You will work across the full SDLC with Product, Architecture, DevOps, QA, and platform teams to deliver robust solutions.

The role emphasizes architecture leadership, proactive performance monitoring, and driving modernization initiatives while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure applications and products.
• Experience deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform.
• Ability to mentor associate engineers and guide teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining scalable microservices-based applications across SDLC.
• Participating in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities.
• Ensuring code quality through testing and automated regression frameworks.
• Mentoring engineers and guiding cross-team collaboration.
• Instruments performance monitoring, capacity management, and KPI reporting.

Skills

Microservices architecture

Java/Spring Boot

REST APIs

Scaleable real-time systems

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

MS degree is a plus

Tools

Azure AKS

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

Delta Dental of California is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Microservices) to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high‑performing microservices for enterprise platforms. You will work across the full SDLC with Product, Architecture, DevOps, QA, and platform teams to deliver robust solutions.

The role emphasizes architecture leadership, proactive performance monitoring, and driving modernization initiatives while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with