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# Senior Microservices Developer

- **Company:** Tegna Inc.
- **Location:** Knoxville, TN, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** .NET Framework, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, Scrum Methodology, Akamai, Service Design, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Azure Service Bus, Code Structure, Backend, Git, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Functions, Graph RAG, Restful APIs, Terraform, Software Version Control, Serverless Computing, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5882575290

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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., * 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.