Top Remote Linux Engineer Jobs

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Design, implement, administer, secure, and maintain enterprise Rocky Linux environments. Apply STIGs, configure identity and authentication services, automate deployment and patching, manage vulnerabilities, troubleshoot infrastructure, and support security monitoring. Develop technical documentation, participate in architecture reviews and incident response, collaborate across infrastructure and cybersecurity teams, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires an active TS/SCI clearance and hybrid work in Centreville, Virginia.

Lead design, automation, and operation of a scalable, secure Linux platform across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Build IaC, provisioning, patching, security hardening, and lifecycle automation. Deploy and operate cloud infrastructure, integrate hybrid environments, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform reliability and maintainability.

Build, patch, customize, and test Linux userspace packages for Rocky Linux products. Remediate CVEs, improve package-building automation, develop automated system tests, and support deployments across servers, virtual machines, and cloud infrastructure. Collaborate on architecture, proofs of concept, documentation, capacity planning, and launch reviews while contributing to open-source development and CI/CD practices.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel and distribution. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications to newer kernel versions; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, test, and hardware teams; and contributing work upstream to the Linux community.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel for its cloud platform. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications across kernel versions; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, hardware, and test teams; and contributing changes upstream to the Linux community.

Develop and maintain Linux kernel components and live-patching infrastructure for Rocky Linux. Responsibilities include kernel design, C programming, debugging memory management and process scheduling issues, device-driver and hardware integration, performance optimization, code review, documentation, and mentoring junior developers. The role requires deep Linux kernel internals expertise, familiarity with x86 and ARM architectures, Git workflows, and at least five years of kernel development experience.

Engineers and maintains hybrid Linux infrastructure across bare-metal, colocation, and cloud environments. Develops Puppet modules and Ansible playbooks for provisioning, deployment, and compliance; administers Ubuntu systems; operates OpenStack, LXD, KVM, and ESXi; maintains storage infrastructure; and executes platform migrations, refreshes, and decommissioning projects.

Design, build, monitor, and maintain large-scale Linux infrastructure supporting distributed S3-compatible object storage across multi-cloud environments. Responsibilities include kernel and storage optimization, network and hardware troubleshooting, automation with Chef or Ansible, observability, forecasting capacity, technical leadership, project coordination, mentoring, documentation, and on-call support.

Designs and maintains secure Linux OS components for hardened container images and cloud-native workloads. Responsibilities include remediating CVEs, patching and rebuilding packages across Linux distributions, hardening container images, managing SBOMs and software provenance, and automating reproducible OS build and CI/CD pipelines. The role requires deep Linux systems, package management, dependency, container runtime, and supply chain security expertise, along with cross-functional collaboration to deliver stable, secure OS baselines.

The Senior Data Center Linux Engineer manages Linux servers, troubleshoot issues, develops automation scripts, ensures secure configurations, and deploys containerized applications.

Analyze Linux system performance, design and implement performance enhancements, productize new servers and hardware, extend performance metrics and visualizations, and build diagnostic tooling. The role requires advanced C programming, Linux kernel expertise, virtualization knowledge, hardware enablement and debugging experience, performance analysis skills, and understanding of computer architecture, concurrency, algorithms, and hardware interconnects.

Designs, implements, administers, and supports critical Linux infrastructure and enterprise systems. Diagnoses system issues, develops remediation plans, supports application infrastructure, and contributes to compliance activities. Builds automation, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code solutions using Linux, cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps, and configuration-management tools. Partners with engineering, security, and operations teams to improve reliability, scalability, security, and deployment efficiency while mentoring junior engineers.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for the architecture, development, and technical direction of macOS and Linux endpoint agents. The role involves application-control enforcement, privileged services, OS event monitoring, secure communications, lifecycle management, installation and updates, debugging, code reviews, testing, observability, and mentoring. The engineer will collaborate across product, QA, security, support, and cloud teams while resolving complex systems, performance, reliability, and security issues.

Build and maintain Linux endpoint detection and response sensors using kernel and user-mode components, eBPF, LSM, and audit subsystems. Develop high-fidelity detection and prevention, anti-tamper protections, telemetry, performance optimizations, and automated testing. Investigate severe customer escalations involving crashes, hangs, regressions, and missed detections. Collaborate across security research, AI, platform, and product teams while mentoring engineers and supporting release quality and on-call responsibilities.

Design, deploy, maintain, tune, and secure enterprise Linux environments supporting high-performance EDA compute farms. Lead infrastructure-as-code automation, configuration management, continuous deployment, and tooling development using Python, Bash, or Go. Manage LDAP/SSSD naming services, NFS and Autofs storage, virtualization, container infrastructure, registries, networking, and infrastructure telemetry. Support highly available, scalable systems and potentially integrate cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, EDA toolchains, and HPC clusters.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and maintains production embedded Linux software for vehicle systems. Responsibilities include modern C/C++ and Qt/QML development, Yocto platform maintenance, Python automation, CI/CD, automated testing, debugging across hardware and software boundaries, release management, architecture, documentation, and production support. The role also provides technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and supplier teams.

This role focuses on engineering and designing Red Hat Linux OS environments, engaging in server virtualization and migration processes, particularly between various Linux setups and Windows environments.

Design and implement Ubuntu integration for IoT and server-class hardware, working with partners on performance enhancements and testing strategies.

The role involves developing software for Linux-based systems on autonomous devices, optimizing performance and ensuring reliability in various hardware environments.

Join Canonical's Kernel Team as a Junior Linux Kernel Engineer to work on Linux kernel development for Ubuntu, collaborating on projects ranging from security hardening to driver integration.

The role involves enhancing Ubuntu Linux kernel support for various SoC platforms, collaborating with silicon vendors, resolving kernel issues, and implementing performance optimizations.

Optimize Ubuntu for the latest IoT and server hardware, leading technical engagements, and work with open source communities. Requires experience with Linux and C/C++.

Lead the architecture and delivery of enhancements to the Ubuntu Linux kernel, collaborate with other teams, and mentor engineers.

Provides Linux systems engineering and cybersecurity support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux satellite servers across Army and military intelligence networks. Responsibilities include operating, sustaining, and maintaining on-premises and commercial cloud environments while supporting regulatory compliance across the INSCOM G6/GISA enterprise. The role requires advanced Red Hat Linux administration, systems engineering expertise, technical execution, problem-solving, leadership, and strong communication skills.