Microservices Architect

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, May 22, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Seeking a skilled Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems in a full-time remote position, focusing on service decomposition, domain-driven design, and ensuring resilient distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define microservices architecture standards and service boundaries aligned with domain-driven design principles
  • Lead the modernization of legacy monoliths into independently deployable services with clear ownership
  • Establish API contracts and observability standards to enable safe evolution and monitoring of services over time
Required Qualifications
  • 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 and distributed systems patterns
  • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies
  • Proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, or C#

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