Top Senior Linux Jobs in Sacramento, CA

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.

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.

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 and maintains system architectures across applications, infrastructure, and platforms. Provides technical leadership, translates requirements into scalable and secure solutions, optimizes reliability and performance, supports system integration, and collaborates with development, DevOps, security, and business stakeholders. Maintains technical documentation and participates in Agile delivery and continuous improvement. Preferred experience includes federal contracts, migrations, Ansible, Linux, Red Hat, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and secure system design.

Lead design and implementation of gameplay and engine systems on Linux platforms. Mentor engineers, define technical specs, manage Linux infrastructure, optimize performance and security, integrate art, maintain documentation, support live services and mobile (iOS/Android) ports, and coordinate cross-team standards and tooling.

Own and architect Linux kernel-space enforcement for an identity security platform using eBPF and BPF LSM hooks. Build kernel and userspace enforcement boundary, optimize syscall hot paths, extend enforcement to containers and Kubernetes, ensure portability across kernel versions, collaborate on shared policy/backend, mentor engineers, and drive production-grade, low-latency security enforcement.

Optimize Ubuntu integration across latest IoT and server-class hardware, lead customer engagements, and work with open source communities in a remote, collaborative environment.

Design, develop, and maintain Linux kernel components for Rocky Linux. Write and review C code, build kernel testing and automation, debug kernel-level issues, optimize performance, collaborate with hardware engineers, document designs, and mentor junior developers.