Bright Vision Technologies · 1 month ago
Service Mesh Engineer (Istio / Linkerd)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$100K/yr - $150K/yr
5+ years expBright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. They are seeking a skilled Service Mesh Engineer (Istio / Linkerd) to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms that ensure secure and reliable service-to-service communication across Kubernetes environments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cyber SecurityInformation TechnologySoftware
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design and operate service mesh platforms — primarily 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, 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, targeted improvements, and data-driven validation to deliver quantifiable gains in throughput, latency, or resource efficiency
Develop paved-road adoption patterns and onboarding guides that make mesh adoption easy 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, applying disciplined release practices that keep the mesh current without disrupting workloads running on top of it
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
Five or more 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
Preferred
Experience with multi-cluster Istio or Linkerd deployments
Familiarity with Cilium service mesh and eBPF networking
Open-source contributions to service mesh projects
Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE for workload identity
Exposure to zero-trust networking initiatives at enterprise scale
Benefits
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
Full-time, direct W2 with Bright Vision Technologies (no C2C, no 1099, no third-party).
100% remote (Continental United States).
Support H1B transfers for qualified candidates.
Company
Bright Vision Technologies
Bright Vision Technologies is an information technology company that offers software development, AI, and cybersecurity services.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase