Service Mesh Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies•North Brunswick, NJ

4d•$100,000 - $160,000•Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is hiring a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms—primarily Istio and Linkerd—for secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across its Kubernetes estate. The role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, mutual TLS, traffic policy, and practical implementation that helps application teams benefit from a service mesh without unnecessary complexity. The ideal candidate has production service mesh experience, deep knowledge of Envoy and the data plane, and a pragmatic approach to platform engineering and adoption.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Eight 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 mutual TLS, 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 and operate Istio and Linkerd service mesh platforms across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
Implement and operate mutual TLS, certificate rotation, and identity propagation across the mesh.
Define traffic management policies for 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, using measurement and data-driven validation to improve throughput, latency, or resource efficiency.
Develop paved-road adoption patterns and onboarding guides for application teams.
Implement authorization policies and zero-trust patterns at the service mesh layer.
Operate service mesh upgrades, control-plane lifecycle management, and configuration governance using disciplined release practices.
Partner with SRE, platform, and security teams on mesh policy and incident response.
Troubleshoot networking, mutual TLS, and traffic issues across 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.