Top Remote Linux Jobs in San Diego, CA

Founding Engineering Manager and Technical Lead responsible for defining architecture, building billing and claims systems, ensuring data integrity and auditability, and hiring and leading the engineering team. The role is hands-on, covering backend systems, APIs, partner integrations, reconciliation, invoicing, internal claims tooling, engineering practices, and cross-functional collaboration.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web application features and distributed microservices. Own complex features from design through deployment, improve application performance and reliability, support on-call operations, troubleshoot incidents, enhance CI/CD and container infrastructure, and collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and API teams. Mentor engineers and contribute to technical standards while delivering customer-focused shipping and fulfillment experiences.

Develop scalable Go backend services for grocery marketplace experiences including catalogs, search, product details, carts, and checkout. Design high-load systems handling location-based assortments, pricing, inventory, discounts, substitutions, and partner integrations. Build reliable microservice interactions, optimize latency and availability, and implement observability across metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing.

Execute manual and automated tests, identify and track defects, improve test coverage and efficiency, and integrate automated testing into CI/CD workflows. Collaborate with developers in an agile environment, perform requirements testing, troubleshoot complex issues, and strengthen QA processes for desktop applications and web services. The role also involves mentoring teammates and driving testing initiatives.

Lead technical execution for teams building endpoint agents, backend and inference services, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing products. Translate engineering priorities into plans, milestones, and ownership; guide architecture and implementation; manage, mentor, and develop engineers; oversee planning, delivery, quality, hiring, and onboarding; and remove technical or resourcing blockers. The role requires hands-on technical judgment, distributed systems experience, and familiarity with agentic coding tools in a fast-moving startup environment.

Own and improve Colonist’s production infrastructure across Kubernetes, DigitalOcean, Terraform, Docker, databases, messaging, Cloudflare, deployments, and observability. The role includes capacity planning, safer release automation, incident response, root cause analysis, documentation, security guardrails, and self-service infrastructure. Candidates must have senior-level production DevOps experience, strong Kubernetes and Linux skills, database and message broker operations experience, cloud-edge expertise, and the independence and communication skills needed for asynchronous remote work.

Lead, coach, and mentor ServiceNow software engineers delivering complex customer projects. Develop and customize ServiceNow solutions, troubleshoot platform and module issues, maintain integrations, support upgrades and performance optimization, document technical solutions, and perform deployments. The role requires advanced ServiceNow development expertise and SAM/HAM experience, along with ServiceNow certifications.

Test products and solutions across platform, functional, feature, solution, and regression testing. Build and maintain automated tests and testbeds, qualify software releases, track quality metrics, and troubleshoot complex hardware and software networking issues. Collaborate with engineering and customer-facing teams on proof-of-concept testing, reproduce faults, and improve test scripts to prevent recurring defects.

Design, build, and own scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications across frontend, backend, and data layers. Improve system architecture, performance, reliability, and testing practices. Integrate AI-assisted tools, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, production-grade software.

Designs and guides enterprise payment integrations from architecture through go-live. Responsibilities include tracing payment transaction flows, identifying integration points, creating system and sequence diagrams, writing API integration specifications, leading technical reviews, and presenting recommendations to executives and engineering teams. The role also partners with sales, product, and implementation teams while ensuring compliant deployment of payment solutions.