Top Linux Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, monitor, and maintain large-scale Linux infrastructure supporting distributed S3-compatible object storage across multi-cloud environments. Responsibilities include kernel and storage optimization, network and hardware troubleshooting, automation with Chef or Ansible, observability, forecasting capacity, technical leadership, project coordination, mentoring, documentation, and on-call support.

Design, develop, and maintain Linux graphics driver features for NVIDIA GPUs, focusing on Vulkan, OpenGL, and Wayland support. Collaborate with hardware, architecture, OEMs, and test automation to ensure performance, reliability, and timely regression detection across Linux platforms.

Design, deploy, maintain, tune, and secure enterprise Linux environments supporting high-performance EDA compute farms. Lead infrastructure-as-code automation, configuration management, continuous deployment, and tooling development using Python, Bash, or Go. Manage LDAP/SSSD naming services, NFS and Autofs storage, virtualization, container infrastructure, registries, networking, and infrastructure telemetry. Support highly available, scalable systems and potentially integrate cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, EDA toolchains, and HPC clusters.

Lead design, automation, and operation of a scalable, secure Linux platform across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Build IaC, provisioning, patching, security hardening, and lifecycle automation. Deploy and operate cloud infrastructure, integrate hybrid environments, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform reliability and maintainability.

Designs and maintains system architectures across applications, infrastructure, and platforms. Provides technical leadership, translates requirements into scalable and secure solutions, optimizes reliability and performance, supports system integration, and collaborates with development, DevOps, security, and business stakeholders. Maintains technical documentation and participates in Agile delivery and continuous improvement. Preferred experience includes federal contracts, migrations, Ansible, Linux, Red Hat, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and secure system design.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

Design and implement Ubuntu integration for IoT and server-class hardware, working with partners on performance enhancements and testing strategies.

Join Canonical's Kernel Team as a Junior Linux Kernel Engineer to work on Linux kernel development for Ubuntu, collaborating on projects ranging from security hardening to driver integration.

The role involves developing software for Linux-based systems on autonomous devices, optimizing performance and ensuring reliability in various hardware environments.

The role involves enhancing Ubuntu Linux kernel support for various SoC platforms, collaborating with silicon vendors, resolving kernel issues, and implementing performance optimizations.

Optimize Ubuntu for the latest IoT and server hardware, leading technical engagements, and work with open source communities. Requires experience with Linux and C/C++.

Lead the architecture and delivery of enhancements to the Ubuntu Linux kernel, collaborate with other teams, and mentor engineers.

Design, develop, and debug Linux kernel code and device drivers for custom embedded platforms. Port and optimize kernels, handle boot and board bring-up (U-Boot), resolve low-level failures, profile performance, integrate with Yocto/Buildroot CI, collaborate with hardware engineers, and upstream relevant patches.

Lead design and implementation of gameplay and engine systems on Linux platforms. Mentor engineers, define technical specs, manage Linux infrastructure, optimize performance and security, integrate art, maintain documentation, support live services and mobile (iOS/Android) ports, and coordinate cross-team standards and tooling.

Own and architect Linux kernel-space enforcement for an identity security platform using eBPF and BPF LSM hooks. Build kernel and userspace enforcement boundary, optimize syscall hot paths, extend enforcement to containers and Kubernetes, ensure portability across kernel versions, collaborate on shared policy/backend, mentor engineers, and drive production-grade, low-latency security enforcement.

Design, implement, and manage secure, highly available RHEL servers and Azure-based cloud solutions. Automate deployments with scripting, support Docker/Kubernetes pipelines, document systems, and adapt to new Azure resources to enhance capabilities for developer groups and military customers.

Optimize Ubuntu integration across latest IoT and server-class hardware, lead customer engagements, and work with open source communities in a remote, collaborative environment.

Canonical is seeking exceptional software engineers for the Linux kernel team, involving collaboration on Ubuntu's kernel development across various hardware. Responsibilities include diagnosing kernel issues, improving automation, and participating in global tech events twice a year.

Build, patch, and test userspace packages for Rocky Linux; improve packaging tooling and automation; remediate CVEs; develop automated tests; collaborate across engineering, product, open-source, and sales; support deployments on servers, VMs, and cloud.

Design, develop, and maintain Linux kernel components for Rocky Linux. Write and review C code, build kernel testing and automation, debug kernel-level issues, optimize performance, collaborate with hardware engineers, document designs, and mentor junior developers.

Administer, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Linux workloads and Azure PaaS/IaaS services. Support connectivity, identity, observability, CI/CD, security patterns, and migrations from VM-hosted workloads to managed Azure services while collaborating with application and DevOps teams.

Lead the migration of a Windows-based renderer to Linux/Vulkan, ensure cross-backend correctness and performance, build regression/comparison tests, establish profiling workflows, and contribute to advanced rendering features and GPU optimization while collaborating across build, infra, and simulation teams.

Lead embedded Linux platform enablement for Nabu Casa hardware: maintain and improve Buildroot-based OS support, perform board bring-up, debug platform-level issues, optimise performance and reliability, upstream patches to open-source projects, maintain CI for builds, and document platform architecture and procedures while collaborating with hardware teams and open-source communities.