Microservices Architect

Microservices Architect - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title: Microservices Architect
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $100,000–$180,000 Annually
Experience Required: 12+ years

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Job Summary:
We are seeking a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern container platforms and cloud-native technology stacks. The role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns such as resilience, observability, and security at scale. The ideal candidate brings hands-on architectural leadership across complex transformations, with a clear point of view on when microservices are the right answer, how to evolve them safely, and how to keep the resulting estate maintainable over the long term.

Key Responsibilities
- Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design principles.

- Lead the modernization of legacy monoliths into well-bounded, 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 that enable safe evolution of services over time.

- Architect resilient distributed systems incorporating circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation patterns.

- Define data ownership models, transactional boundaries, and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS where appropriate.

- Lead the design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and shared observability.

- Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across critical service domains.

- Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards optimized for high-frequency, low-risk service releases.

- Define observability standards including structured logging, distributed tracing, and SLO-driven monitoring.

- Collaborate with security teams to ensure zero-trust principles, secrets management, and runtime protection are embedded.

- Mentor engineers and tech leads on microservices best practices and anti-pattern avoidance.

- Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on service design proposals across multiple teams.

- Continuously evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies for adoption based on maturity and strategic fit.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

- 12 or more 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#.

- Strong understanding of API design, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging.

- Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production.

- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across at least one major provider.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Demonstrated ability to lead architecture initiatives spanning multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with platform engineerin