Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

The Linux Administrator will design, implement, and monitor system infrastructure, ensuring high availability and developing automation strategies along with the team.

The Network Services Engineer will evaluate and manage network systems, configure hardware/software, implement security measures, and conduct troubleshooting.

Systems Engineers will analyze user needs, design system specifications, implement and maintain systems, and ensure compliance and security while collaborating with teams.

Assist with Java and Oracle project requirements including design, implementation, testing, and documentation. Collaborate in an Agile environment.

Lead frontend architecture and implementation for Slate's digital customer experience. Drive design, code, testing, and delivery across web and mobile, mentor engineers, collaborate with UX/product, and make long-term technical trade-offs to ensure reliability and scalability.

Lead design and implement large-scale backend storage features for Backblaze's object storage platform, focusing on host-managed SMR support, IO benchmarking and performance optimization, driving technical decisions, mentoring, and delivering production rollouts across thousands of servers.

Work on Backblaze's storage platform (B2 Object Storage and Computer Backup) to improve durability, throughput, and architecture. Lead technical design, drive implementation of large features, shape coding practices, and participate across design, implementation, testing, and rollouts while collaborating proactively in a remote-first team.

Provide consultative engineering and high-tier support to enterprise customers: design, architecture, integration, implementation, performance testing, migrations, and hands-on troubleshooting. Handle L1-L3 support, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, produce documentation and benchmarks, mentor hires, and support on-call and regional onsite needs (up to 35% travel).

Design, build, monitor, and maintain on-prem and cloud infrastructure for enterprise production systems. Improve automation, CI/CD pipelines, performance, and incident root-cause analysis while collaborating with development, operations, and security teams.

Design and guide secure, scalable enterprise and cloud architectures (DNS, Azure, AWS, on-prem). Lead cloud migrations, implement monitoring, integrate hybrid environments, present technical briefings, and mentor staff while ensuring security and performance for a mission-focused government client.

Build and support TimescaleDB Enterprise on‑prem deployment and management platform. Develop frontend tooling (React/TypeScript), backend services (Go), deployment automation (Ansible), and operational PostgreSQL tooling. Write tests across unit to end-to-end, collaborate with cross-functional teams, translate operational requirements into pragmatic product solutions, and iterate on reliability and usability.

Own and operate PayTrace's multi-platform database environment: provision, configure, patch, monitor, tune, and recover databases. Lead modernization from MS SQL to AWS RDS, support HA/DR and multi-region active-active, automate administration and data pipelines to Snowflake, assist developers with query tuning, and provide technical guidance and documentation. Be available for production incident response.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop and maintain Docker Desktop's lifecycle components, focusing on installation, updates, and performance across macOS and Windows environments, while debugging complex OS-level issues and collaborating with teams.

Design, automate, and maintain datacenter, cloud, and office networks. Develop automation (Ansible, scripts), troubleshoot connectivity, implement security, manage network OSes, participate in 24/7 on-call, and collaborate with engineering teams.

Build and maintain cloud-native platform infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters, develop IaC and CI/CD pipelines, support IAM and monitoring, manage certificates and container security, participate in on-call incident response, and document runbooks and standards while mentoring junior engineers.

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure and application platform to enable rapid deployments, troubleshoot incidents, design self-healing systems, join on-call rotation, and support product and data engineers with observability and networking expertise.

Lead multiple Agile teams to design, build, and deliver large-scale Java/Linux applications and big-data solutions. Drive engineering excellence via automated testing, DevOps/CI, mentorship, backlog grooming, and cross-organizational influence to advance CAS products.

Embed with U.S. government customers to design, build, deploy, and maintain mission software from prototype to production. Own end-to-end delivery, build backend systems and data integrations, collaborate with product and engineering to scale reusable capabilities, and serve as the technical point of contact to drive adoption and mission impact.

Lead technical implementations and deployments of cloud-connected drone systems across enterprise customer sites. Install, configure, test, and maintain hardware and software, troubleshoot connectivity (WiFi/cellular), document procedures, manage implementation projects, and act as customer technical liaison to drive adoption and feedback to product and engineering teams.

Manage, maintain, secure, and enhance WordPress and custom PHP web platforms end-to-end. Responsibilities include development, server and hosting administration, MySQL database optimization, performance tuning, DNS/SSL management, backups/disaster recovery, security (WAF/Cloudflare), integrations, and troubleshooting across development, staging, and production environments.

Develop and maintain backend services for the Leap quantum-classical cloud platform. Deliver features across the SDLC, improve system performance and scalability, troubleshoot and resolve production issues, participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship reliable, high-quality software.

Lead design and development of software that interfaces with quantum processors, supporting calibration, hardware interfaces, testing, monitoring, and operational infrastructure. Drive architecture, optimize performance, mentor engineers, run technical investigations, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure QPU solver availability on the Leap cloud platform.

Lead improvement of infrastructure automation, reliability, and security. Implement IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, zero-touch provisioning, incident and release practices. Mentor teams, participate on-call, prototype new technologies, and drive resiliency and operational excellence.

Lead end-to-end deployments of SnapLogic's Jean-Paul AI agent with strategic customers: run discovery, technical scoping, and connectivity; deploy into customer infrastructure (on‑prem, VPC, cloud), configure SSO/OAuth, wire AI providers, stand up MCP connections, enable customer teams, document patterns, and feed field learnings back to product.

Lead architecture and deliver scalable, secure Azure solutions across the enterprise. Design IaC modules (Terraform), landing zones, CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions), governance (Policy as Code, RBAC), observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights), cost/performance optimization, container infrastructure, and incident response. Mentor engineers, run design/code reviews, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into production-ready cloud platforms.