Top Senior Linux Jobs in San Diego, CA

Build and ship full-stack product features across HR-facing and employee health insurance platforms. Partner directly with stakeholders, own product decisions, integrate LLM-driven agents and experiences, maintain code quality, improve observability, and help establish the technical foundation using modern AI development tools.

Lead a hands-on platform engineering function spanning full-stack product development, real-time Kafka and ClickHouse data/ML pipelines, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, security, and reliability. Own React, Node.js, and MongoDB applications; Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Docker, and GitHub Actions; production observability and incident response; and SOC 2 readiness. Establish AI-assisted engineering workflows using tools such as Claude Code and Cursor while replacing vendor-built infrastructure with durable internal automation.

Designs, administers, and improves Microsoft 365 and Power Platform environments, including Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Copilot, Intune, Defender, and Purview. Leads platform projects from requirements through adoption and support, builds Power Platform automations and AI-enabled solutions, develops integrations using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Azure, and APIs, and partners with security, IAM, compliance, and AI teams to ensure effective governance, security, and operational readiness.

Designs and builds secure, scalable distributed backend systems using Python and AWS. Responsibilities include event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, cloud data pipelines, serverless applications, REST APIs, performance optimization, authentication, and cloud security. The role requires strong distributed systems, testing, debugging, and backend development expertise, with GenAI, LLM, RAG, and vector database experience preferred.

Leads complex engineering scopes across energy and industrial projects, owning technical integrity, calculations, procedures, drawings, specifications, quality, schedules, and budgets. Independently checks and approves work within delegated authority, coordinates clients, project teams, suppliers, and operations, and provides technical leadership during site execution. Supports tenders, risk reviews, equipment readiness, change management, project reporting, and closeout. Coaches engineers and graduates while ensuring compliance with quality, health, safety, environmental, and technical governance requirements.

Review AV project designs, build and QA equipment racks, load firmware/DSP/control code, perform commissioning and testing, support installers and troubleshooting, coordinate with design engineers and project managers, and complete project closeout documentation.

Designs and implements Go-based control-plane software for custom AI inference hardware. Responsibilities span system management APIs, Linux services, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, observability, security, firmware updates, distributed systems, and workload management. The role requires hands-on debugging across application, operating system, firmware, and hardware boundaries, plus technical leadership, mentoring, architecture, and production ownership. Regular on-site lab work includes server racking, system bring-up, hardware troubleshooting, and documentation.

Provides technical support to sales teams and oil and gas customers through field surveys, analytical support, process recommendations, product training, troubleshooting, and optimization strategies. The role researches new products, addresses operational challenges, and educates sales personnel on chemical products. It requires strong communication, organization, chemical engineering knowledge, and at least four years of oil and gas experience. The position is home-based but requires residence in West Texas and travel exceeding 50% across the territory.

Designs, maintains, and scales AWS cloud infrastructure and Databricks platforms. Responsibilities include Terraform-based provisioning, CI/CD automation, monitoring, cost and performance optimization, incident response, database troubleshooting, Kubernetes and microservices operations, and multi-cloud platform management across AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and other providers.

Lead software engineering initiatives for investment systems, driving architecture, technical design, cross-functional execution, system reliability, and scalability. The role coordinates engineers and product stakeholders, removes delivery blockers, mentors team members, and delivers complex enterprise-grade platforms. Technologies include AWS, Python, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kestra, and PySpark.