Senior .NET Backend Engineer

Required Experience

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in C#, .NET Core, and .NET 8/10+
• Deep hands-on experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure
• Strong experience with Azure services including:
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Storage
• Azure Functions
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Monitor / Application Insights
• Azure API Management
• Azure SQL Database
• Proven experience building scalable, distributed microservices architectures (not monolithic applications)
• Strong understanding of cloud-native and event-driven architectures
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting applications in AKS/Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity, security, and private connectivity concepts
• Experience working in hybrid cloud and on-premises environments
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
• Experience automating build, deployment, testing, and release processes
• Strong API design, backend architecture, and service integration skills
• Solid experience with SQL Server, Azure SQL, data modeling, and performance tuning
• Strong understanding of resiliency patterns including retries, circuit breakers, failover, and fault tolerance
• Experience supporting high-volume, transaction-intensive distributed systems
• Strong production support and troubleshooting skills across multiple environments
• Experience implementing security best practices including OAuth, JWT, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and secrets management

Preferred Experience

• Hands-on Kafka experience including producer/consumer design, retries, dead-letter queues, and event troubleshooting
• Experience with distributed tracing and observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Experience designing schemas for event-driven systems, including idempotency, ordering, and schema evolution
• Experience with performance engineering, scalability testing, and bottleneck analysis
• Experience leading technical design sessions and mentoring engineers
• Experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating workloads to Azure

What We're Looking For

• Senior engineer who can independently own solutions from architecture through production support
• Strong Azure practitioner, not just someone familiar with Azure concepts
• Comfortable making architecture decisions, troubleshooting complex production issues, and driving cloud modernization initiatives
• Able to work closely with business, architecture, and platform teams while maintaining hands-on development responsibilities

Key emphasis: This role requires a developer with strong real-world Azure implementation experience, particularly with AKS, Azure DevOps, cloud-native microservices, observability, security, and production support, not just .NET development experience.