Microservice Developer

About TEGNATEGNA 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 than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.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 than 100 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 Microservices Developers to build and operate the backend C#/.NET services that power TEGNA's content management and streaming platforms. Our content management side runs on Azure (C#/.NET Function Apps with a Service Bus event backbone). You'll work as part of a collaborative, cross-domain team, turning the epics and stories that flow down from our Solutions Architects into working, reliable services, with support from senior engineers, a hands-on team lead, and the cloud team. This is a strong fit for engineers who want to grow in cloud-native, event-driven development within a modern Azure/AWS environment.Responsibilities Build, test, and maintain C#/.NET microservices, primarily as Azure Function Apps, across the contentmanagement and streaming-support domains. Implement event-driven workflows using Azure Service Bus and other messaging patterns. Develop and consume RESTful APIs, and contribute to containerized, cloud-agnostic services running onKubernetes. 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 andreliability issues. Work cloud-native across our Azure/AWS environment, following the infrastructure-as-code and CI/CDpractices set by the cloud team and Cloud Architect. Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum team with disciplined source control: clear branching, pull requests, andcode review.Requirements 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services (or equivalent strongfundamentals). 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) — not solely on-premisessystems — is valued; eagerness to grow into our hybrid stack. Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum team with Git-based source control at a team level. Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform, and a habit of writing tests, are pluses. Media, streaming, or high-traffic platform experience is a plus.Why Join TEGNA?You'll build modern digital products at real scale, learning cloud-native and event-driven development in a supportive, forward-thinking engineering organization. You'll work alongside senior engineers and architects and contribute to the services that power content management and streaming delivery 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.Benefits: 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 are proud 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 disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email View email address on click.appcast.io Recruiting Fraud Alert:To all candidates: your personal information and online safety are important to us. Only TEGNA Recruiters or Hiring Managers will reach out to you regarding consideration of your application or background. 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