Platform Networking Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • Frisco, TX

1d • $140,000 - $155,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is hiring a Platform Network Engineer for a full-time, direct W-2 role. The position is 100% remote within the United States, with an annual salary range of $140,000–$155,000. The role is described as a Service Mesh Engineer position focused on designing, deploying, and operating service mesh platforms, primarily Istio and Linkerd, to provide secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across a Kubernetes estate. The work centers on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mutual TLS, traffic policy, and helping application teams gain the benefits of a service mesh without unnecessary complexity. The ideal candidate has operated a service mesh in production, understands Envoy and the data plane in depth, and applies platform engineering discipline alongside pragmatic adoption strategies.

Candidates must be authorized to work as U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, or H-1B transfer candidates. The company cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms, primarily Istio and Linkerd.
• Provide secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across a Kubernetes estate.
• Support service mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policy.
• Help application teams use service mesh capabilities without unnecessary complexity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level