Senior Microservices Architect – Remote

RiseMe; Monroeville (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern cloud-native stacks.

The role requires deep expertise in domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns such as resilience, observability, and security at scale, with hands-on architectural leadership across complex transformations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with several years in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices design, domain-driven design, and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, or C#.
• Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across at least one major provider.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design principles.
• Lead the modernization of legacy monoliths into independently deployable services with clear ownership.
• Design service communication patterns leveraging REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming as appropriate.
• Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning strategies for safe evolution of services.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation.
• Define data ownership models and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS where appropriate.
• Lead design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and observability.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across critical service domains.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards for high-frequency releases.
• Define observability standards with structured logging and distributed tracing.

Skills

Microservices design

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems

Leadership

API design

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Container orchestration

Service mesh

Java

Go/C#

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern cloud-native stacks.

The role requires deep expertise in domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns such as resilience, observability, and security at scale, with hands-on architectural leadership across complex transformations.