Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

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 reliability and performance efforts for distributed metadata systems: tune and optimize systems, develop monitoring and automation, manage rollouts, troubleshoot incidents, run simulations and analytics, and support database/configuration management to improve global network stability and capacity.

Lead Azure platform projects, manage teams, troubleshoot cloud services, ensure security management, and support clients in a 24x7 environment.

Design, implement, and operate observability and reliability for cloud platforms. Measure and monitor production systems, reduce toil via automation, drive incident response and on-call practices, and partner with product and platform teams to improve scalability, resiliency, and observability.

The Principal Engineer will lead the technical ecosystem, ensuring hands-on execution in a high-growth environment, focusing on AI integration and full-stack development.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and deployment systems. Create CI/CD pipelines, manage Docker container environments, implement monitoring and alerting, optimize cost and performance, and support blockchain node reliability.

The Principal Software Engineer at Snout will define architectural direction, build features across the stack, and enhance team effectiveness, ensuring quality and performance.

Lead the backend team, setting technical direction for a scalable platform, designing distributed systems in Golang, and mentoring engineers.

As a Software Engineer in Reliability, you'll architect and manage multi-cloud GPU infrastructure, ensuring performance, security, and scale while debugging complex hardware/software issues.

Design, build, and operate reliable backend systems while mentoring engineers, participating in design discussions, and improving system performance.

The Lead Systems HPC Engineer will optimize GPU clusters' performance, troubleshoot issues, integrate new hardware, and collaborate with teams on system-level software development.

Design and build systems for managing bare-metal infrastructure, focusing on automation, hardware provisioning, and software integration with Linux systems.

Build and maintain developer platform tooling that ensures SIL-4 safety compliance: automation for certification evidence, CI/CD improvements, Bazel build maintenance, lightweight web dashboards, developer workflow automation, monitoring, and on-call support.

Lead architecture and execution of vNode runtime integration with containerd and the kubelet, define and test namespace-based isolation primitives, mentor engineers, run design reviews, operate internal tenant clusters, and represent the project in upstream communities and conferences.

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.

Design, deploy, and scale Linux automation solutions using Ansible and IaC. Implement monitoring, system hardening, configuration management, and performance optimization. Translate stakeholder needs into idempotent automation, enforce compliance (STIG/RMF/NIST), mentor team members, and evolve enterprise automation architecture in a mission-critical environment.

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.

Responsible for deploying, configuring, maintaining Linux servers, assisting with system administration, and managing OS patches using various tools.

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.

Build and maintain Python tools for web scraping, automation, integrations (Airbnb, marketplaces), ad automation, chatbots (Chatwoot), workflow automation (Spiffworkflow), automated tests, and data analysis.

Develop and maintain mobile app and no-code quest editor, implement gameplay engine and server, design software architecture, and collaborate in one-week Scrum sprints using C++, Qt, QML, MySQL, and AI-assisted tools.

Part-time full‑stack developer to maintain and extend a global Laravel backend and modern frontend (Angular/React/Vue). Responsibilities include architecture, DevOps tasks, code reviews, using MySQL, PHP/JavaScript/TypeScript, GitLab workflows, and AI-assisted coding tools. Work in one-week Scrum sprints, ~10+ hours/week, equity-based compensation; applicant must hold a full‑time job.