Senior Kubernetes Service Mesh Engineer (Remote)

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Kubernetes Service Engineer for a 100% remote role in the United States. The candidate will design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd) across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, focusing on mTLS, traffic policy, and observability.

Extensive production experience with Envoy and Go/Python tooling is required. The role emphasizes platform engineering discipline, incident response collaboration with SRE and security teams, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or networking roles.

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, 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, 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, applying systematic measurement and 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 spanning sidecar and gateway tiers.
• Maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, and onboarding materials for the service mesh platform.
• Stay current with Istio, Linkerd, Cilium, and broader service mesh ecosystem developments.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

Istio/Linkerd production

Envoy proxy

Kubernetes networking

mTLS / PKI

Observability

Go or Python

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Kubernetes Service Engineer for a 100% remote role in the United States. The candidate will design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd) across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, focusing on mTLS, traffic policy, and observability.

Extensive production experience with Envoy and Go/Python tooling is required. The role emphasizes platform engineering discipline, incident response collaboration with SRE and security teams, and