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Senior .NET Backend Engineer

Swanktek IncDallas, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 2, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Dallas, TX, United States
Posted
21 hours ago
DockerMicroservicesSQLSQL ServerOAuthAzureC#.NETGitHub ActionsJWTKafkaKubernetesTerraformVault

Job Description

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.

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