Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

The Site Reliability Engineer will maintain high-performance cloud and on-premises services, automate tasks, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product teams.

The Software Engineer will develop high-performance software for distributed edge and cloud systems, process data streams, optimize software, collaborate with customers, and mentor peers.

Design, deploy, operate, and scale GPU/CPU infrastructure supporting classified national security missions. Responsibilities include managing Top Secret datacenter deployments, GPU-as-a-service platforms, large-scale AI clusters, Kubernetes, operating systems, databases, monitoring, distributed storage, automation, and high-availability services. The role partners with AI engineers, improves service lifecycles, and develops solutions for performance, reliability, and operational scalability.

Design, deploy, operate, and scale GPU/CPU infrastructure for classified data centers and AI clusters. Build automation for on-premise Kubernetes clusters and operating systems, manage databases, monitoring, distributed storage, and GPU-as-a-service platforms, and improve service reliability. Collaborate with AI engineers, lead lifecycle operations, mentor junior engineers, and guide technical excellence across the team.

Provides senior engineering support for enterprise infrastructure and ServiceNow-enabled platforms across hybrid cloud, compute, storage, networking, databases, and automation. Leads complex deployments, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, security remediation, architecture reviews, and technical workstreams. Uses Azure, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, SQL, and observability tools to improve reliability and scalability. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, supports compliance and change management, mentors engineers, contributes to strategic roadmaps, and participates in on-call support.

Architect, deploy, and operate highly available multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Manage Kubernetes, Linux systems, databases, caching platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, security, incident response, and performance optimization. The role also requires automation with Python and Bash, comprehensive documentation, client collaboration, and participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Designs, develops, integrates, deploys, and supports FIS Systematics Advanced Lending System solutions. Leads cloud, enterprise application, infrastructure, and systems integration initiatives; defines requirements, architectures, specifications, testing, and deployment plans. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, risk mitigation, governance, documentation, and operational support across distributed environments. Collaborates with IT teams, vendors, and testing teams to deliver compliant, scalable solutions and improve system performance.

Lead and scale the quality assurance strategy for a remote health technology company. Manage and mentor QA engineers across Scrum teams, oversee automated and manual testing, integrate test frameworks with CI/CD pipelines, establish quality metrics, improve test coverage and environments, and ensure compliance with regulated-industry standards. Partner with engineering, product, and executive leadership to drive quality practices across the software development lifecycle.

Provides staff-level customer-facing technical support for complex multi-cloud networking and security issues. Serves as an escalation point, leading troubleshooting, packet analysis, root cause analysis, deployments, integrations, optimization, and upgrades. Collaborates with sales, solution engineering, and product engineering teams; identifies defects, validates fixes, and improves product quality. Develops technical documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides while advising leadership on recurring customer issues.

Develop and maintain Linux kernel components and live-patching infrastructure for Rocky Linux. Responsibilities include kernel design, C programming, debugging memory management and process scheduling issues, device-driver and hardware integration, performance optimization, code review, documentation, and mentoring junior developers. The role requires deep Linux kernel internals expertise, familiarity with x86 and ARM architectures, Git workflows, and at least five years of kernel development experience.

Design, deploy, and maintain reliable production and corporate systems; manage configuration, security, and core infrastructure; participate in on-call incident response; build automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code; monitor systems and develop tools to improve reliability and availability.

Build and maintain Python-based automation, services, test infrastructure, and performance analysis tooling for a distributed database system. Collaborate with internal stakeholders, improve developer tooling and reproducible testing, analyze system performance, and create documentation and runbooks. The role requires strong software fundamentals, systems thinking, Linux and CI experience, and the ability to learn new languages and systems quickly.

Owns end-to-end enterprise application architecture for secure, scalable court-record systems. Responsibilities include designing microservices, REST APIs, micro-frontends, cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions, authentication frameworks, workflows, and integrations; leading architectural reviews, code reviews, DevSecOps and CI/CD initiatives; mentoring technical teams; evaluating technologies; and ensuring security, compliance, accessibility, and governance standards.

Lead site reliability engineering for Akamai’s compute infrastructure and services. Develop automation, define reliability requirements and standards, establish SLOs and KPIs, troubleshoot complex distributed-system and hardware issues, manage incidents and postmortems, and participate in on-call rotations. Coordinate engineering teams, support strategic initiatives, mentor engineers, and guide restoration of service-impacting issues.

Lead the strategy, architecture, and operation of Chainguard’s database platform. Build production tooling and automated guardrails; improve replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, capacity planning, and global database resilience. Assess risks across existing systems, establish standards and governance, write production code, and lead cross-functional initiatives across engineering teams. The role requires deep PostgreSQL and MySQL expertise, cloud infrastructure experience, Linux and Go proficiency, and staff-level technical leadership.

Develop, integrate, and field autonomy software for expeditionary unmanned aircraft (V-BAT/X-BAT). Own features from software-in-the-loop to live flight tests, collaborate with aircraft and perception teams, lead technical integration, support field deployments and mission testing, and troubleshoot hardware/software issues.

Develop, integrate, and field autonomy software for launched effects platforms, owning features from design through live flight testing. Drive technical execution, collaborate with autonomy, perception, and vendor teams, support system bring-up and field operations, and implement C2 interoperability and deployment processes. Travel to tests and customer exercises to support mission execution and debugging.

Develop, integrate, and field autonomy capabilities for novel platforms (space, maritime, unmanned helicopters). Own end-to-end integration from software- and hardware-in-the-loop to live tests, partner with platform and cross-functional teams, support on-site testing, debug hardware/software issues, document designs, and improve integration and testing processes.

Lead technical strategy and engineering for autonomy on new platforms (space, maritime, contested logistics). Define architecture, guide development and integration, mentor senior engineers, support testing and deployments, resolve complex hardware/software integration issues, and transition R&D into operational programs.

Lead technical delivery and integration of autonomy software for launched effects, including autopilot integration, multi-agent coordination, and fleet-scale deployments. Collaborate with autonomy, perception, vendors, and customers; lead design, testing, debugging, mission support, documentation, and pre-deployment readiness for disconnected or air-gapped operational environments.

Lead technical delivery and integration of autonomy software for V-BAT and X-BAT, defining flight-autonomy interfaces, integrating payloads and mission autonomy, coordinating cross-team engineering, ensuring mission readiness, supporting flight tests and deployments, mentoring engineers, and improving integration workflows and testing infrastructure.

Lead technical direction and integration for launched-effects autonomy across platforms. Develop and field mission autonomy, multi-agent coordination, and platform interfaces; drive architecture, standards, testing, deployments, and mentor senior engineers while supporting flight tests and operational customers.

Lead technical delivery and integration of autonomy software for new platforms (air, maritime, space). Own end-to-end development, testing, and fielding of autonomy features, mentor teams, drive architecture and ICDs, support live tests, and transition R&D into operational capabilities.

Lead technical direction and architecture for expeditionary autonomy across V-BAT and X-BAT. Drive development, integration, validation, and fielding of mission autonomy, flight-autonomy interfaces, payloads, and multi-agent capabilities. Mentor senior engineers, influence cross-team engineering standards, support deployments and operational readiness, and define long-term strategy and interoperability for defense customers.

Build and maintain scalable infrastructure platforms supporting domestic and international workloads. Develop CI/CD, declarative lifecycle management, Kubernetes clusters, monitoring, and automation systems. Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, respond to alerts, minimize downtime, streamline delivery pipelines and database changes, and help guide SRE team direction. Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and technology professionals while promoting a high-performance, cross-functional culture.