Microservices Team Lead

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 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.

Microservices Team Lead to lead a cross‑domain team of engineers building and operating the services behind TEGNA's content management and streaming platforms. Our content management side runs on Azure - C#/.NET Function Apps with a Service Bus event backbone - while streaming and media content live in AWS (Media services, S3, Cloud Front), all Terraform/CDK managed. Reporting to the Platform Engineering Manager, this is a hands‑on technical leadership role: you set technical direction, own delivery for your team's services, and grow the engineers you lead.

You'll take the tech briefs and epics that flow from our Solutions Architects, break them into well‑sequenced work, partnering with the Cloud team for infrastructural requisites.

We are looking for a Microservices Team Lead to lead a cross‑domain team of engineers building and operating the services behind TEGNA's content management and streaming platforms. Our content management side runs on Azure - C#/.NET Function Apps with a Service Bus event backbone - while streaming and media content live in AWS (Media services, S3, Cloud Front), all Terraform/CDK managed.

Reporting to the Platform Engineering Manager, this is a hands‑on technical leadership role: you set technical direction, own delivery for your team's services, and grow the engineers you lead.

You'll take the tech briefs and epics that flow from our Solutions Architects, break them into well‑sequenced work, partnering with the Cloud team for infrastructural requisites.

• Lead a distributed team of microservices engineers (onshore and offshore), owning planning, delivery, code quality, and day‑to‑day technical direction.
• Remain hands‑on: contribute to design and code for C#/.NET Function Apps, Service Bus messaging flows, and containerized services on Kubernetes.
• Break down tech briefs and epics from the Solutions Architects into actionable stories, sequencing delivery against both short‑term product needs and long‑term platform health.
• Drive engineering practices across the team: code review standards, testing, observability.
• Own service reliability and performance for your team's domain, including SLAs, incident response, and reducing operational toil.
• Partner with the Cloud Architect and the Cloud Lead on CI/CD and IaC‑managed infrastructure.
• Mentor and grow engineers at varying experience levels and manage the throughput and quality of individual contributors.
• Run an Agile/Scrum delivery cadence with disciplined source control across the team.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or mentoring a team of engineers.
• Strong hands‑on experience building microservices in C#/.NET, including serverless (Azure Functions or equivalent) and event‑driven patterns (Service Bus, queues, pub/sub).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems (messaging, idempotency, retries, failure handling) and of running services in production (observability, alerting, incident response).
• Experience…