Senior .NET 8 / Azure Backend Engineer

Overview

Senior .NET 8 / Azure Backend Engineer on the StoreWeb modernization initiative, building Azure-native, API-first services that replace legacy monoliths, based in Hyderabad, India.

What you'll do

• Design and build mission-critical Azure-native backend services using .NET 8, with strong focus on resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
• Architect API-first services on Azure App Services with a clear path toward AKS-based evolutionary deployment.
• Implement advanced authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2, JWT, Entra ID).
• Engineer resilient systems using retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and idempotency.
• Establish full-stack observability using App Insights and OpenTelemetry (logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting).
• Define health, readiness, diagnostics, SLAs, and SLO standards for modernized services.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation, blue-green/canary templates, and deployment-safety mechanisms.
• Collaborate across platform, data, and integration teams to ensure API stability, backward compatibility, and safe strangler cutovers.
• Lead performance profiling, scalability engineering, and .NET runtime diagnostics.
• Provide technical leadership by shaping modernization patterns, guiding design decisions, and elevating engineering excellence.

What you'll need

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience with modern .NET (6/7/8) and asynchronous service design.
• 3+ years of deep hands-on Azure experience with App Services, Functions, APIM, or AKS.
• Strong REST/API design fundamentals, secure coding expertise, and distributed-systems problem-solving skills.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines, CI/CD automation, and IaC (Bicep preferred).
• Ability to debug and own services across the full software lifecycle.

Nice to have

• Experience with event-driven systems (Service Bus, Event Grid).
• Hands-on experience with performance profiling, concurrency tuning, and .NET runtime diagnostics.
• Familiarity with distributed-systems resilience, eventual consistency, and cloud-scale reliability engineering.

Details

• Location: Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City, Inorbit Road, Hyderabad, India (APAC Home Office).
• No direct reports; operates as a technical leader.