Top Linux Jobs in San Diego, CA

Designs and delivers secure, scalable cloud-native self-service platforms for containerized applications and enterprise APIs. Leads Kubernetes standards, PaaS solutions, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, DevSecOps practices, and compliance. Collaborates with stakeholders and security teams to establish technical roadmaps, improve developer experience, and ensure reliable, auditable federal systems. The role also provides technical leadership, mentoring, and end-to-end software delivery across the development lifecycle.

Leads electrical engineering projects from pre-sales through commissioning, designing UPS, DC power, switchgear, generator, grounding, and automated transfer systems. Develops schematics, construction documents, bills of material, sizing analyses, and code-compliant designs. Coordinates contractors, vendors, agencies, and internal teams; reviews submittals; supports construction, integration, site audits, startup, testing, and commissioning. Requires travel to project sites and provides technical and customer support.

Designs and releases CRAC products, including electrical panels, components, controls, wiring, schematics, CAD models, and bills of material. Leads electrical engineering tasks, mentors engineers, supports prototypes, testing, manufacturing, service issues, design reviews, DFM/DFMEA, and cost reduction initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure product quality, compliance, manufacturability, and delivery against project timelines.

Leads electrical engineering projects from pre-sales through commissioning, designing UPS, DC power, switchgear, generator, grounding, and automated transfer systems. Produces schematics, construction documents, bills of materials, sizing analyses, and equipment specifications. Coordinates contractors, vendors, architects, agencies, commissioning teams, and onsite engineers while ensuring code compliance, quality, testing, and system performance. Provides technical support, audits, startup assistance, and occasional site travel.

Leads the KFC US site reliability engineering team responsible for cloud infrastructure, restaurant connectivity, in-store edge systems, reliability, security, compliance, and operational excellence. Oversees architecture, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability, incident response, vendor coordination, and continuous improvement. Develops engineers, establishes sustainable on-call practices, manages platform risks, and partners with technology, restaurant operations, cybersecurity, and global reliability leadership.

Conduct and oversee tire performance testing across rotating shifts. Translate test objectives into execution protocols, acceptance criteria, and setups; monitor test parameters and data quality; troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, control, and data acquisition issues; document deviations and non-conformances; maintain shift reports; and coordinate with technicians, Engineering, and Operations to ensure safe, timely, high-quality testing.

Work with physicists and engineers to develop next-generation neutral-atom quantum computer hardware. Projects may involve optical, mechanical, atomic physics, or software systems, including designing, building, debugging, and iterating experimental systems. Candidates should be curious, analytical, and comfortable in a fast-paced laboratory environment.

Own propulsion system design, analysis, hardware selection, testing, integration, and operation across the spacecraft lifecycle. Develop schematics, CAD models, manufacturing drawings, trade studies, and test procedures for fluid and mechanical systems. Collaborate with structures, avionics, software, production, and test teams to integrate hardware, review data, and resolve anomalies.

Own propulsion system design, analysis, hardware selection, CAD modeling, integration, testing, operations, and anomaly resolution across the product lifecycle. Collaborate with structures, avionics, software, production, and test teams to deliver high-performance spacecraft propulsion systems, including propellant, pressurization, feed, pneumatic, ignition, and attitude-control systems.

Supports manufacturing engineering for space-grade components and vehicles, including process development, fabrication and assembly technique evaluation, inspection process creation, hardware improvements, and technical issue resolution. Works with design and development teams to transition hardware from test articles to high-volume production.

Lead and develop an MEP team while managing complex multidisciplinary engineering projects from planning and design through construction. Provide technical leadership for HVAC, mechanical utility, and plumbing systems; oversee scope, schedules, budgets, quality, staffing, client relationships, subconsultants, and project financial performance. Review technical deliverables, mentor engineers and designers, coordinate disciplines, support proposals and business development, and contribute to MEP design for laboratories, R&D facilities, higher education, utility plants, and commercial buildings.

Leads engineering for Buffer’s Growth area across acquisition, activation, and retention. Coaches engineers, shapes priorities with Product, Design, Marketing, and Data, guides technical decisions, connects customer insights to measurement, supports AI-enabled development, and contributes to hiring and engineering practices. The role requires strong technical judgment, product-growth understanding, clear communication, and experience helping engineers develop in a distributed environment.

Leads backend software engineering projects, coordinates engineers, assigns technical work, makes complex technical decisions, improves engineering processes, establishes standards, and represents PayPal with external partners. The role requires balancing competing priorities while delivering customer, operational, and service objectives.

Manage and monitor Linux-based IT infrastructure across servers, networks, and cloud environments. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot system issues, optimize deployment strategies, automate administrative tasks with scripting, Ansible, and Terraform, and maintain system security through firewalls, antivirus tools, and access controls. Collaborate with development teams, document configurations and procedures, and support high availability and performance.

Designs, develops, and maintains tools and services supporting Atlassian Jira and Confluence. Collaborates with developers, system administrators, project managers, and mission customers to deliver integrations and streamline workflows. Develops automation scripts, applies Linux administration and software development practices, builds CI/CD pipelines, uses Ansible and Docker, manages source code with Git, documents system changes, and supports mission applications in Linux environments.

Administer, maintain, monitor, and support a secure, highly available Kubernetes PaaS running on Linux infrastructure. Troubleshoot workloads, networking, storage, ingress, and performance issues; develop Bash and Python scripts; manage Docker or Podman containers; create Helm charts; apply infrastructure-as-code with Ansible; and use Prometheus, Grafana, and Git to maintain platform reliability, scalability, and compliance.