Senior Remote Microservices Architect

Bright Vision Technologies; Edison (NJ); 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 design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems on modern container and cloud-native stacks. You will drive service decomposition, domain-driven design, and resilient, observable platforms at scale.

The role requires hands-on architectural leadership across transformations, with a clear POV on safe evolution and maintainability of the estate over time. 100% remote in the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience with architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices design, domain-driven design, and distributed patterns.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and container orchestration; service mesh techs.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or C#; API design and event-driven architectures.
• Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across major providers.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to lead multi-team initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design.
• Modernize legacy monoliths into independently deployable services with clear ownership.
• Design service communication patterns using REST, gRPC, messaging, and events.
• Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning for safe evolution.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers, retries, and bulkheads.
• Define data ownership and patterns like outbox, saga, and CQRS where applicable.
• Lead platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, and observability.
• Drive performance, capacity planning, and scalability analyses across services.
• Establish CI/CD and testing standards for high-frequency releases.
• Define observability with structured logs, tracing, and SLO-driven monitoring.
• Collaborate with security to embed zero-trust, secrets management, and runtime protection.
• Mentor engineers and tech leads on best practices and anti-patterns.
• Lead architecture reviews and guide proposals across teams.
• Continuously evaluate cloud-native tech for maturity and fit.

Skills

Microservices design

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems patterns

Kubernetes

Container orchestration

Service mesh

API design

Event-driven architectures

Asynchronous messaging

Cloud platforms

Java

Go

C#

Communication skills

Technical leadership

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 design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems on modern container and cloud-native stacks. You will drive service decomposition, domain-driven design, and resilient, observable platforms at scale.

The role requires hands-on architectural leadership across transformations, with a clear POV on safe evolution and maintainability of the estate over time. 100% remote in the U.S.