Microservices Architect
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Bright Vision TechnologiesTechnology Consulting
100% Remote (U.S.)Full-TimeSenior
Salary100,000 - 180,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Required Skills
- Cloud ComputingJavaKubernetesC#GogRPCRESTful APIsMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Eight 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.
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.
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