Top Senior Linux Jobs in San Diego, CA

Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance full-stack business applications. Collaborate with product, design, QA, SRE, and business teams; build scalable cloud-native systems, APIs, transactional processing, and workflow automation. Perform code reviews, unit testing, debugging, documentation, Agile ceremonies, secure coding, production support, and on-call rotations.

Leads the engineering and calculation team, assigning workloads, managing resources and budgets, mentoring engineers, and coordinating project execution. Reviews and approves design documents, performs stress analyses and technical studies, resolves root causes, mitigates design and production risks, and supports continuous improvement. Collaborates with sales, estimating, production, erection, design, and project teams on pre-engineering, cost estimates, design coordination, and practical precast product solutions.

Own and improve Elicit’s scholarly search and data platform, building distributed data pipelines, secure external integrations, and end-to-end product features. Develop Python and TypeScript services, React and Next.js interfaces, and reliable APIs. Manage data quality, provenance, observability, staged deployments, and system performance while collaborating with product, customers, partners, and engineering teams.

Own and modernize the Terraform infrastructure ecosystem, build automated Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and design resilient GCP foundations. The role standardizes infrastructure modules, manages Shared VPCs, IAM, Cloud SQL, Ansible configuration, and container or VM strategies. It also establishes IaC governance, mentors developers, improves observability and resilience, troubleshoots deployment issues, and participates in on-call support.

Own the reliability and scalability of large-scale infrastructure supporting video ingestion, billions of clips, and social features. Responsibilities include on-call leadership, incident response, postmortems, infrastructure-as-code, Elasticsearch operations, GCP and Kubernetes management, database scaling and sharding, CI/CD, and collaboration with engineering teams. The role requires strong judgment during production incidents, durable infrastructure solutions, and experience in rapidly scaling startup environments.

Build end-to-end product features for a construction intelligence platform: implement high-performance React front-ends, Python/Postgres backends, work on document intelligence, search, change detection and large-scale data processing, ship with customers, and collaborate with founders.

Own core backend services powering reproducible, traceable, and auditable financial computations. Design configuration-driven computation systems, optimize SQL and data models, ensure reliability and tenant isolation, and establish strong testing and correctness controls. Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, engineering standards, and mentorship while partnering with data, AI, and product teams. The role supports multi-tenant and customer-hosted deployments across major cloud platforms.

Build and ship end-to-end product features across an author analytics dashboard, marketing site, free tools, billing, email, and AI-assisted functionality. Design data models and APIs, integrate third-party services, develop production LLM features, and maintain testing, monitoring, performance, and observability. The role includes code review, technical documentation, independent product decisions, and close collaboration with the founder in a remote-first environment.

Develop and scale airframe manufacturing operations, including facilities, equipment, tooling, processes, composite fabrication, structural assembly, and integration. Own manufacturing process development and hardware delivery from concept through production. Translate engineering designs into executable manufacturing plans, improve manufacturability and build quality, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with engineering, production, quality, supply chain, and suppliers to establish a scalable aircraft manufacturing line.

Owns the optics laboratory, including equipment, test setups, experiments, safety, documentation, and field verification. Translates technical goals into experiments; designs, builds, aligns, and troubleshoots optical systems; runs test campaigns; procures lab infrastructure; automates data acquisition; and reports actionable results. The role also supports laser safety, optical fiber assembly, thermal management, outdoor testing, process development, and mentoring of lab staff.