Top Senior Linux Jobs in San Diego, CA

Owns hybrid IT infrastructure spanning Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Windows and Linux servers, virtualization, storage, networking, endpoint management, and security. The role designs custom solutions, automates operations, leads infrastructure incident response and root-cause analysis, documents systems, mentors junior staff, and participates in on-call support. This is a fully onsite senior position supporting a rapidly scaling manufacturing technology environment.

Research and develop FPGA systems, RTL components, and hardware-assurance tools. Plan and verify designs in VHDL or Verilog, use FPGA EDA tools for synthesis and timing closure, operate laboratory instrumentation, and automate testing with Python and TCL. Extend EDA tools, analyze device characteristics, document research, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to technical reports and publications. The role requires advanced FPGA experience and eligibility for a Top Secret clearance.

Provides technical leadership for a national optical transport network, defining architecture, roadmaps, capacity plans, service specifications, automation, telemetry, and infrastructure strategy. Designs and validates coherent DWDM and ROADM solutions, manages fiber and vendor relationships, supports deployment and 24x7 operations, resolves incidents, mentors engineers, and represents the organization in industry standards and research networking communities.

Leads the hardware R&D operations team supporting hospital-deployed robots. Oversees technician development, staffing, intake prioritization, provisioning, builds, refurbishment, quality control, shipping, testing, validation, and failure analysis. Coordinates with engineering, manufacturing, and field service teams while maintaining procedures, recorded results, uptime objectives, and timely delivery. The role is hands-on, on-site, and includes occasional travel, lifting components, and after-hours support.

Designs, tests, troubleshoots, and supports installation of electrical systems for custom fire apparatus. Develops schematics, wire-harness diagrams, hardware selections, bills of materials, and software components using C or C++. Provides production support, conducts root-cause investigations, participates in technical reviews, establishes engineering standards, addresses component obsolescence, and executes supplier-supported improvement projects.

Design, develop, test, and support ServiceNow automation for ITSM, infrastructure, cloud, identity, endpoint, and security operations. Build workflows, integrations, catalog automations, scripts, and reusable components; integrate enterprise platforms through APIs, IntegrationHub, and MID Server. Improve reliability, governance, CMDB alignment, documentation, performance, and user adoption while troubleshooting production issues and collaborating across teams.

Senior QA Engineer responsible for testing robotic systems across software, hardware, and integrated robot cells. Duties include creating test strategies and automated suites, integrating tests into CI/CD, deploying software on Linux systems, debugging logs and stack traces, managing defects in GitLab, validating hardware-software integration, supporting releases, collaborating with developers and product owners, and mentoring junior teammates.

As a Principal Firmware Engineer, you will design and develop firmware for electronic devices, lead projects, mentor junior engineers, and ensure integration with hardware components.

Design, build, test, and maintain high-volume, low-latency backend applications. Lead software development across the full lifecycle, analyze requirements, create technical designs and documentation, resolve technical issues, propose infrastructure improvements, and support architectural reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives while applying modern development practices and cloud technologies.

Build and operate AoPS’s platform infrastructure, including observability, Kubernetes, AWS systems, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer tooling. Define SLOs with product teams, lead incident response, improve reliability and security, conduct postmortems, and establish engineering standards. Mentor engineers and explore AI applications for infrastructure and developer productivity.