Top Senior Linux Jobs in San Diego, CA

Designs, builds, deploys, and maintains secure full-stack identity governance software for federal customers. Responsibilities include backend and frontend development, distributed systems architecture, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, audit readiness, and operations in disconnected or classified environments. The role also requires collaboration across engineering, product, and design; architectural leadership; AI-augmented software development; and mentoring peer engineers.

Own end-to-end mechanical design and development for current and next-generation energy products. Responsibilities include prototyping welded and machined designs, designing and testing components and fixtures, managing SolidWorks models, drawings, assemblies, bills of materials, ECNs, work instructions, and PDM assemblies. The role also addresses supplier design and manufacturing challenges, drives design-for-manufacturability improvements, and collaborates cross-functionally. The position is fully onsite in San Jose and requires overseas travel up to 20%.

Owns the design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of services within a .NET and React e-commerce microservices platform. Translates business requirements into technical solutions, supports production incidents, contributes to planning and code reviews, and collaborates across engineering teams. Uses Azure, databases, Docker, REST APIs, CI/CD practices, and AI-assisted development tools to deliver reliable software.

Leads a multi-site North American custom enclosure engineering organization, setting engineering strategy, prioritizing resources, and delivering custom designs. Oversees technical execution, product architecture, process improvement, manufacturing collaboration, KPIs, and continuous improvement. Develops talent pipelines and mentors engineering leaders, engineers, and designers while balancing short-term customer demands with long-term scalability. Partners cross-functionally across the engineered-to-order process and supports critical internal and external customers.

Leads mechanical interface design, structural and thermal analysis, CAD modeling, hardware procurement, and integration of experimental payloads on hypersonic vehicles. Coordinates requirements across engineering teams and customers, resolves interface issues, supports fabrication and vehicle integration, mentors junior engineers, and contributes to technical reviews, proposals, and contract deliverables. The role is primarily on-site in Mojave, California, with less than 10% travel.

Own spacecraft power units from requirements through design, supplier management, verification, and acceptance. Design power electronics boards involving switching, protection, current limiting, conversion, interfaces, and fault handling. Perform part selection, schematic capture, worst-case and derating analysis, board bring-up, testing, and debugging. Manage supplier specifications and design reviews, support spacecraft electrical integration, and contribute to power budgets, grounding, EMI/EMC, and system architecture trades for a 15-year GEO mission.

Owns the spacecraft product assurance program as its mission assurance technical authority. Responsibilities include PA planning, qualification readiness and review boards, supplier assurance flow-down, reliability engineering, EEE parts control, derating, destructive physical analysis, and safety hazard analyses for hazardous systems, pressure systems, ordnance, and batteries. The role works across engineering, suppliers, leadership, and customer assurance organizations to ensure the spacecraft is built and qualified to required standards.

Designs and maintains secure Linux OS components for hardened container images and cloud-native workloads. Responsibilities include remediating CVEs, patching and rebuilding packages across Linux distributions, hardening container images, managing SBOMs and software provenance, and automating reproducible OS build and CI/CD pipelines. The role requires deep Linux systems, package management, dependency, container runtime, and supply chain security expertise, along with cross-functional collaboration to deliver stable, secure OS baselines.

Designs, develops, deploys, and operates scalable Go and Python microservices in distributed production environments. Responsibilities include API design, Kubernetes deployment, monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting incidents, system architecture, security, testing, code reviews, and continuous improvements to development processes and infrastructure. The role requires end-to-end service ownership, strong Linux and Docker expertise, observability knowledge, and experience with reliability, performance, and CI/CD practices.

Leads enterprise infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, monitoring, and DevOps initiatives. Provides advanced technical support, designs datacenter and hybrid-cloud solutions, optimizes cloud resources, and establishes automation practices. Develops Power Automate RPA integrations across Microsoft and enterprise platforms, including governance, security, compliance, monitoring, and exception handling. Manages complex IT projects, mentors engineers, supports strategic technology planning, and participates in on-call support.

Lead architecture and development of scalable full-stack software solutions, make strategic technical decisions, collaborate with product and business stakeholders, conduct code reviews, promote engineering best practices, mentor junior engineers, research emerging technologies, and solve complex technical challenges. The role focuses on building and optimizing distributed systems and consumer-facing platform experiences.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports complex, scalable software systems. Leads architecture and technical solutions, implements AI-enabled and agentic applications, integrates systems, performs testing and troubleshooting, and ensures quality, security, reliability, and performance. The role also supports incident management, CI/CD, Agile delivery, code reviews, mentoring, stakeholder collaboration, and adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools.