Remote Senior Microservices Architect

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems on cloud-native stacks. The role demands hands-on architectural leadership, domain-driven design, and strong experience with distributed data management.

The position is fully remote within the U.S. and requires 12+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture roles.
• Deep microservices design, domain-driven design, and distributed systems patterns.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh tech.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or C# backend development.
• Strong API design, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging.
• Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across major providers.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Leadership in architecture initiatives across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards, boundaries, and decomposition aligned with domain-driven design.
• Modernize legacy monoliths into independently deployable services with clear ownership.
• Design service communication patterns using REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming.
• Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning for safe evolution.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers, retries, and bulkheads.
• Define data ownership, transactional boundaries, and patterns like outbox, saga, and CQRS.
• Lead platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, and identity propagation.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across services.
• Set CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards for high-frequency releases.
• Define observability standards with logging, tracing, and SLO-driven monitoring.
• Collaborate with security teams for zero-trust and secrets management.

Skills

Kubernetes

Service mesh

Java

Go

C#

API Design

Domain-driven design

Distributed Systems

REST

gRPC

Security

Observability

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems on cloud-native stacks. The role demands hands-on architectural leadership, domain-driven design, and strong experience with distributed data management.

The position is fully remote within the U.S. and requires 12+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture responsibilities.