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Microservice Developer

Tegna


Job Location:

Knoxville, TN - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 29 September 2026 (23 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About TEGNA

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.

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 TEGNAs content management and streaming platforms. Our content management side runs on Azure (C#/.NET Function Apps with a Service Bus event backbone). Youll 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 content
management 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 on
Kubernetes.

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 and
reliability issues.

Work cloud-native across our Azure/AWS environment following the 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: clear branching pull requests and
code review.

Requirements

2 years of professional software engineering experience building backend services (or equivalent strong
fundamentals).

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-premises
systems 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
Youll build modern digital products at real scale learning cloud-native and event-driven development in a supportive forward-thinking engineering organization. Youll work alongside senior engineers and architects and contribute to the services that power content management and streaming delivery across all of TEGNAs 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 TEGNAs 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 doctors 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

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. Communications with TEGNA employees will either come from a TEGNA email address with a domain of or one of our affiliate station domains.

Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.


Required Experience:

IC


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