Overview In this role you will build and operate backend C#/.NET microservices powering TEGNA's content management and streaming platforms. You'll work within a collaborative, cross-domain team to turn epics into reliable services, with support from senior engineers and the cloud team. The role emphasizes cloud-native, event-driven development in Azure/AWS environments. You'll contribute to scalable, high-availability media delivery while evolving alongside a forward-looking engineering organization.
Compensation / Benefits- medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
- dental and eye care coverage
- fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
- disability and life insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Teladoc virtual doctor visits and Spring Health counseling sessions","paid time off and nine holidays per year
Responsibilities- Build, test, and maintain C#/.NET microservices (primarily as Azure Function Apps) for content management and streaming support.
- Implement event-driven workflows using Azure Service Bus and other messaging patterns.
- Develop and consume RESTful APIs; contribute to containerized, cloud-agnostic services on Kubernetes.
- Translate stories/epics into working implementations; participate in design reviews, code reviews, and testing.
- Operate services in production: monitor, troubleshoot, and address performance/reliability issues.
- Work cloud-native across Azure/AWS with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices set by the cloud team and Cloud Architect.
- Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum team with disciplined source control (branching, PRs, code review).
Key requirements- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services
- 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; habit of writing tests is a plus
- Media, streaming, or high-traffic platform experience is a plus
- team collaboration
- eagerness to grow in a hybrid stack
- effective communication
- C#/.NET
- Azure Functions
- Azure Service Bus
