Remote Service Mesh Engineer (Istio & Linkerd)

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; 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 Kubernetes estates, focusing on secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication. The role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, and pragmatic patterns for app teams.

The candidate should have production experience with Istio/Linkerd, strong Envoy knowledge, and solid Kubernetes expertise, including networking and ingress.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or networking roles.
• 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 — Istio and Linkerd — 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, and fault injection.
• Integrate the mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway tiers for unified traffic management.
• Build observability for mesh traffic including distributed tracing 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 with data-driven validation.
• Develop paved-road adoption patterns and onboarding guides for app teams.
• Implement authorization policies and zero-trust patterns at the service mesh layer.
• Operate service mesh upgrades, control-plane lifecycle management, and configuration governance.
• Partner with SRE, platform, and security teams on mesh policy and incident response.
• Troubleshoot complex networking, mTLS, and traffic issues across layers.
• Maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, and onboarding materials.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Networking troubleshooting

Communication skills

Go or Python

Service mesh experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Kubernetes

Cilium

eBPF

SPIFFE/SPIRE

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms across Kubernetes estates, focusing on secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication. The role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, and pragmatic patterns for app teams.

The candidate should have production experience with Istio/Linkerd, strong Envoy knowledge, and solid Kubernetes expertise, including networking and ingress.