Top Senior Linux Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads company-wide technology strategy, architecture, platforms, cybersecurity, AI, automation, and innovation. Develops multi-year roadmaps, technical standards, governance, lifecycle strategies, and measurable technology investments. Oversees technology leaders and technical SMEs while partnering with Operations, Client Success, Revenue, and Cybersecurity to translate strategy into scalable capabilities and client offerings. Builds organizational capability, drives automation, evaluates emerging technologies, and ensures technology initiatives deliver measurable business value.

Leads ASU’s Drupal and web platform engineering team, overseeing development, releases, maintenance, security, performance, accessibility, and managed hosting. Provides hands-on engineering, DevOps, platform strategy, custom module and integration development, automation, and production support. Manages and mentors developers, advances AI-assisted engineering practices, strengthens release processes, and partners with technical and non-technical stakeholders on modernization and digital experience initiatives.

Leads engineering for thermowells, flushing rings, valves, and fabricated products. Oversees product design, standards compliance, manufacturing integration, CNC and welding processes, validation, documentation, customer technical support, supplier coordination, continuous improvement, and team development. Manages the machine shop and collaborates across manufacturing, quality, sales, and customer service to deliver compliant, manufacturable products.

Build and maintain full-stack SmartCenter capabilities using Python backends and web technologies. Design APIs, business logic, workflows, integrations, and user experiences; improve system architecture, testing, reliability, security, privacy, and compliance. Partner with product, design, QA, and customer-facing teams to deliver pragmatic solutions, support production systems, and apply responsible AI-assisted development practices.

Own the architecture and development of firmware test automation frameworks, hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure, CI/CD integration, diagnostics, telemetry, and test reporting for photonic hardware. Debug failures across firmware, boards, instruments, fixtures, and test software. Define test strategies, improve framework reliability, participate in design reviews, integrate embedded management interfaces, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong Python, embedded C/C++, CI/CD, hardware testing, and automation architecture experience.

Leads and develops a Scrum-based software engineering team, improving Agile practices, planning, delivery predictability, workflow management, KPIs, and software quality. Partners with technical and business stakeholders in a Microsoft technology environment, balancing production support with strategic development initiatives. Coaches developers, supports staffing and resource planning, and provides technical leadership without serving as the primary developer.

Design and build Lambda’s managed Kubernetes platform for large-scale AI workloads. Responsibilities include developing control-plane services, operators, controllers, cluster lifecycle automation, GPU-aware scheduling, inference platform services, internal deployment tools, observability, and resilient distributed systems. The role involves collaboration across networking, storage, compute, and security teams, production troubleshooting, and participation in an on-call rotation.

Develop and optimize Fortnite’s PC rendering systems across diverse hardware and software configurations. Diagnose CPU, GPU, shader pipeline, compatibility, stability, and performance issues; improve low-level engine systems and platform API integrations; analyze release data; collaborate with GPU vendors and Epic teams; and architect core systems using C++ and multithreaded programming.

Designs, administers, modernizes, and supports an Atlassian ecosystem comprising Jira, Jira Service Management, and Confluence. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, workflow and portal configuration, plugin management, Power BI and Elasticsearch integrations, Generative AI enhancements, documentation, performance improvements, and an Atlassian IL5 Cloud migration. Provides technical guidance, coordinates testing and training, and supports system sustainment in a government environment.

Design, provision, and operate cloud infrastructure (primarily GCP/GKE) and Kubernetes platform tooling. Build GitOps-driven automation, CI/CD pipelines, IDP/self-service developer tooling, cost optimization, observability, security controls, and runbooks to improve reliability and developer velocity.