Remote Service Mesh Engineer (Istio/Linkerd)

Bright Vision Technologies; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms across our Kubernetes environments. You will focus on Istio and Linkerd, mTLS, traffic policy, and helping application teams reap the benefits of a mesh with pragmatic adoption.

The ideal candidate has production experience with service mesh, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong Go or Python tooling skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or networking.
• Hands-on experience operating Istio or Linkerd in production.
• Strong understanding of Envoy proxy internals and configuration.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including networking, CNI, and ingress.
• Strong understanding of mTLS, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management.
• Experience with distributed tracing and observability for mesh traffic.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for tooling and automation.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, application, and control plane layers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate service mesh platforms across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Implement and operate mTLS, certificate rotation, and identity propagation across the mesh.
• Define traffic management policies including routing, retries, circuit breaking.
• Integrate the mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway tiers for unified traffic management.
• Build observability for mesh traffic including distributed tracing, golden signals, and topology visualization.
• Design multi-cluster and cross-cluster mesh topologies for high availability and tenant isolation.
• Profile and optimize mesh performance, sidecar resource usage, and control-plane footprint.
• Develop paved-road adoption patterns and onboarding guides for app teams.
• Implement authorization policies and zero-trust patterns at the service mesh layer.
• Operate mesh upgrades and lifecycle governance; coordinate with SRE and security teams.

Skills

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy proxy

Kubernetes

mTLS

PKI

Tracing/Observability

Go

Python

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Python

Envoy

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms across our Kubernetes environments. You will focus on Istio and Linkerd, mTLS, traffic policy, and helping application teams reap the benefits of a mesh with pragmatic adoption.

The ideal candidate has production experience with service mesh, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong Go or Python tooling skills.