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About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) 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 an Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Services domain that encompass backend microservices, media asset management systems, DevOps and infrastructure, and the CMS interfaces that power TEGNA's digital product portfolio. In this role, you will own delivery outcomes, operational health, and team execution across the platform services teams that form the foundation of everything we build and operate.

This domain is the backbone of our centralized platform serving local news stations across web, mobile, and connected TV. You will partner closely with the rest of the engineering teams and product leadership to ensure our platform services are reliable, scalable, well documented, and evolving to meet both current delivery needs and long-term strategic goals.

This is a hybrid position based in Knoxville, TN, with regular collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities:

Domain Ownership and Execution

• Own delivery outcomes and operational health across backend microservices, MAM systems, infrastructure, and our CMS systems.
• Lead execution across multiple platform services teams, ensuring service reliability, API quality, and infrastructure stability
• Ensure consistent performance, availability, and scalability across cloud native services running in AWS and Azure
• Translate product and platform priorities into executable plans across platform services teams
• Balance feature delivery with operational stability, security posture, and technical debt reduction

People Leadership

• Directly manage the Platform Services Teams
• Coach Team Leads on execution, release ownership, and leadership effectiveness
• Ensure teams have clear ownership, priorities, and accountability
• Support career development and performance management for all direct reports
• Foster team health, engagement, and a culture aligned with TEGNA's guiding engineering principles

Delivery and Release Oversight

• Accountable for release outcomes across backend services, infrastructure changes, and CMS deployments
• Ensure teams follow shared release standards, rollout strategies, and post release validation practices
• Partner with Team Leads during release windows and post release monitoring
• Review service health metrics, error rates, latency trends, and incident patterns
• Ensure issues discovered after release are triaged and addressed quickly

Operational Excellence

• Act as an escalation point for platform service incidents, infrastructure degradations, and backend outages
• Partner with application teams during incidents that involve platform services
• Support incident response and post incident reviews for platform related problems
• Drive improvements in observability, alerting, and monitoring using tools such as New Relic
• Identify systemic reliability risks across services and infrastructure and prioritize remediation
• Own the strategy for optimizing observability data ingestion costs while maintaining visibility into system health

Product Partnership

• Serve as the primary engineering partner for Product leadership responsible for platform capabilities, backend services, and internal tooling
• Collaborate closely with Product on roadmap planning, providing engineering perspective on feasibility, sequencing, and technical readiness
• Advise product on tradeoffs between feature delivery, platform stability, and technical debt, ensuring the engineering perspective shapes what gets prioritized and when
• Bridge the gap between product vision and engineering reality, ensuring commitments are grounded in team capacity, platform constraints, and delivery confidence

Strategy and Planning

• Partner with Product and senior engineering leadership on the platform services roadmap
• Balance short term delivery needs with long term platform health, scalability, and architectural evolution
• Contribute to technical direction for microservices architecture, API strategy, event driven patterns, and shared platform components

What We're Looking For

• 7 or more years of experience in software engineering with a focus on backend services, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• 3 or more years of experience in an engineering management or senior technical leadership role
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and cloud native application patterns
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration technologies
• Experience managing delivery across multiple teams or pods with different technical focuses
• Proven ability to lead teams through releases and production incidents
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner across engineering, product, and infrastructure disciplines

Bonus Points

• Experience with event driven architectures, message queues, and asynchronous processing patterns
• Experience with observability platforms such as New Relic, including cost optimization strategies for data ingestion
• Background in media, content management, or digital publishing platforms
• Experience partnering closely with application teams that consume backend APIs and platform services
• Familiarity with media asset management systems and content workflows

Why Join Us

You will join an engineering organization where platform services are the foundation that powers every digital product we build. At TEGNA, you will play a key role in shaping the reliability, scalability, and evolution of the platform that millions of viewers depend on every day.

You will have the opportunity to lead talented teams across multiple disciplines, improve how we build and operate platform services, and directly influence the technical foundation of TEGNA's digital future.

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 TEGNA's 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 doctor's 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 are proud 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 disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [email protected]

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