Top Senior Linux Jobs in Atlanta, GA

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot REST services, APIs, and microservices for mission-critical geospatial systems. Support containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, DevOps automation, testing, infrastructure deployment, data platforms, and third-party integrations. Contribute to architecture, performance optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder demos, and Agile delivery. The role requires onsite work in Herndon, Virginia and collaboration on national security missions.

Manage infrastructure reliability and performance for internal business services. Implement site reliability engineering and DevSecOps practices, monitor system health, automate infrastructure management with PowerShell, troubleshoot enterprise environments, remediate vulnerabilities, and support Relativity, Nuix, Azure, Windows, Linux, and SQL Server. Collaborate with stakeholders and vendors, maintain technical documentation, apply ITIL incident and change management, solve complex infrastructure issues, and mentor junior team members.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Design, build, and operate Cloudflare’s globally distributed cache and reverse-proxy data plane. Responsibilities include improving Pingora-based asynchronous systems, cache performance and correctness, purge and Tiered Cache services, APIs, observability, reliability, and production operations. The role owns features end to end, including design, implementation, testing, staged rollouts, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.

Leads a DevOps engineering team while designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, security controls, infrastructure as code, containerized microservices, and disaster recovery processes. The role focuses on improving developer efficiency, system reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Responsibilities include incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, stakeholder communication, cross-functional collaboration, and participation in on-call support.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer ensures SaaS platforms remain reliable, performant, secure, and scalable. Responsibilities include building cloud infrastructure, implementing monitoring and alerting, automating operational runbooks and deployments, managing Infrastructure as Code, applying AI-powered observability and remediation, supporting Kubernetes and cloud networking, and leading incident triage and root-cause analysis during 24/7 on-call rotations.

Build, monitor, and scale resilient cloud infrastructure across multi-region and multi-cloud environments. Develop Kubernetes controllers and infrastructure tools using Go, Python, Ruby, and Terraform; maintain Datadog observability; diagnose complex production performance and reliability issues; automate failover and capacity management; and collaborate with engineering teams on architecture and infrastructure improvements.

Design and develop scalable C++ software for endpoint state and control across Windows, macOS, and potentially Linux. Build reliable, multi-process systems that enforce endpoint behavior, manage local state, support IPC, and operate across millions of devices. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, writing design documents, defining architecture and IPC contracts, and making technical decisions in an evolving, sparsely documented environment.

Own the durability, recoverability, performance, and security of a production PostgreSQL/RDS fleet supporting a live trading platform. Lead replication, failover, backup and restore, disaster-recovery drills, data lifecycle management, access control, encryption, and database observability. Investigate engine-level performance issues including WAL contention, replica lag, bloat, and locking. Build infrastructure and AI-assisted operational tooling while documenting runbooks and reliability decisions.

Design, scale, and operate Runpod’s distributed storage platform across network volumes, local NVMe, and S3-compatible object storage. Tune storage and high-speed network performance, lead capacity expansions and migrations, write production automation and control-plane code, extend APIs, and build observability, dashboards, SLOs, and alerts. The role also participates in on-call operations, incident response, infrastructure-as-code practices, and long-term architecture decisions for petabyte-scale AI infrastructure.

Design and implement scalable backup software for endpoints, servers, and cloud applications. Develop Java and Kotlin services, optimize databases and queries, debug production systems, and resolve distributed-system performance issues. Contribute code, reviews, architecture discussions, documentation, and cross-team reliability initiatives. Mentor engineers and help deliver resilient products operating at large scale.

Lead design, development, modernization, and support of InterSystems Cache/IRIS applications using ObjectScript. Build services, APIs, batch jobs and data workflows; optimize SQL, indexing and queries for performance; lead migrations (Cache to IRIS) and integrations (REST, messaging, ETL); troubleshoot incidents, drive operational resilience, embed secure practices, and mentor engineers across product, QA, infrastructure, and architecture teams in a regulated fintech environment.

Design and build production-grade mission, behavior, and motion planning systems for autonomous ground support vehicles in airport environments. Responsibilities include selecting planning algorithms, defining software architecture, optimizing trajectories, handling uncertainty, collaborating with perception and controls teams, promoting functional safety practices, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong C++ or Python skills, Linux experience, autonomous systems planning expertise, and the ability to independently solve complex technical problems.

Own and productionize localization, mapping, calibration, and state-estimation systems for autonomous ground vehicles operating at active airports. Responsibilities include sensor fusion, 3D mapping, calibration, online validation, diagnostics, regression testing, deployment, and safety monitoring. The role provides technical leadership across perception, planning, and platform teams while advancing autonomous operations toward driverless capability.

The Sr Systems Compute & Storage Engineer VP is responsible for managing Linux servers, enterprise storage, and VMware systems, ensuring operational efficiency and security compliance while driving automation and collaboration across teams.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Owns and optimizes resilient, ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure for institutional trading across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs routing, multicast, segmentation, firewall, VPN, telemetry, and automation systems. Leads production changes, incident response, failover testing, maintenance, and on-call support for 24/7 trading platforms. Mentors engineers and partners with SRE, product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability and developer velocity.

Own Tier 3 escalations and incident response for complex customer issues involving a cybersecurity platform. Investigate distributed systems, reproduce defects, coordinate resolutions with engineering and product teams, and build Datadog observability dashboards, monitors, and alerts. Create runbooks, troubleshooting guides, RCAs, and postmortems; mentor support staff; identify recurring failure patterns; communicate with customers; and participate in an application-layer on-call rotation.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Develop and maintain mission-critical applications across the software lifecycle. Responsibilities include writing efficient, testable Java code, ensuring designs meet specifications, owning production code, responding to and triaging incidents, preparing releases, and evaluating technologies for architectural improvement. The role requires experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Hibernate, databases, REST APIs, application servers, middleware, and Unix/Linux environments.

Hands-on Senior Network Engineer responsible for global LAN, WAN, wireless, routing, switching, firewall, SASE, Zero Trust, and secure remote-access infrastructure. Leads IT/OT network segmentation across manufacturing sites, supports network modernization and datacenter projects, performs Tier 2/3 escalation, coordinates vendors, maintains documentation, and contributes to security assessments, disaster recovery, and change management. Requires enterprise networking expertise across multi-site environments, cloud connectivity, wireless platforms, and network security technologies.

Design and implement real-time C/C++ software for RF sensor signal-processing systems. Develop and optimize CUDA GPU algorithms, translate MATLAB and Python prototypes, architect open-architecture components, and integrate software on embedded multi-core CPU/GPU platforms under strict latency requirements. Create tests and benchmarks, document designs, support technical reviews and proposals, collaborate across engineering teams, and travel approximately 20% for integration, customer meetings, and field demonstrations.

Design, develop, debug, and maintain high-performance networking software using C/C++ and Python. Work across L2-L7 protocols, Linux system and socket programming, multithreading, packet analysis, and virtualized networking environments. Configure and troubleshoot VMs, bridges, TAP/TUN interfaces, VLANs, and virtual switches. Collaborate with architecture, QA, DevOps, and engineering teams on design, testing, deployment, documentation, and code reviews. Mentor junior engineers and optimize production-quality software.

Designs, builds, and supports cloud-native platform capabilities centered on Kubernetes and AKS. Responsibilities include developing container platforms, Helm charts, deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, developer self-service tools, container security controls, reliability improvements, troubleshooting, and cloud-native standards. The role partners with application, security, and architecture teams to modernize enterprise software delivery and evaluates emerging technologies, including generative AI tools.

Leads a small endpoint engineering team while remaining hands-on with device deployment, configuration, imaging, application packaging, policy management, patching, endpoint security, and Level 3 support. Owns endpoint standards, hardware and peripheral recommendations, compliance, documentation, and deployment projects. Coaches team members, prioritizes work, manages performance, and collaborates with infrastructure, security, service desk, and end users in a primarily remote environment.