Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

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

Provide Linux systems administration and support cloud infrastructure (AWS), automate builds and CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot applications and scripts, provision/configure resources, optimize performance, document processes, and promote cloud best practices across teams.

The Embedded Software Engineer II will develop C/C++ code for an embedded Linux platform, perform debugging, and work on hardware integration.

Build and lead development of a customer-facing metric store for high-volume telemetry. Design scalable backend services, data models, ingestion pipelines, and query execution paths. Optimize query performance, storage efficiency, and system reliability. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Operations from architecture through production, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotation, and help define testing, deployment, and operational practices.

Student co-op will gain hands-on QA experience testing high-speed routing/switching and mobile core systems. Work includes programming and automation (C/C++, Python, Tcl), DevOps tools (git, Nagios), virtualization, traffic generator and protocol emulator testbeds, and learning professional test and troubleshooting practices in a data center environment.

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.

The Senior Lead Network Engineer will evaluate, enhance, and maintain a large-scale network infrastructure, provide design guidance, assess network setups, and ensure security measures are implemented while documenting processes and providing informal training.

The PostgreSQL Database Developer will migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL, manage database environments, ensure performance, and monitor systems proactively.

The Full Stack Developer will work on software application development, testing strategies, automation, security enhancements, and integrating solutions within teams.

Design, build, test, and maintain production services and microservices with security and compliance in mind. Deliver production-ready code, participate in code reviews, own operational support and incident response, improve monitoring and CI/CD, document technical decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally in a distributed team.

Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native, event-driven supply chain and warehouse services. Contribute to APIs, message processing, integrations, database design, troubleshooting, and CI/CD. Collaborate on roadmap, requirements, and program plans while continuously learning and improving system performance and reliability.

Lead customer-facing architecture and development of scalable, cloud-native AWS applications. Drive design discussions, migrate monoliths to microservices, implement serverless and container solutions, advise on AWS best practices, and influence developer-focused product and platform strategy.

Lead technical engagements to architect and build scalable, cloud-native AWS applications using serverless, containers, and microservices. Migrate monoliths to microservices, advise on AWS best practices, influence infrastructure and product strategy, and work directly with customers and cross-functional teams.

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.

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

The Diagnostics Engineer will design, develop, and validate diagnostics software for networking hardware, collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams to ensure high performance and reliability.

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.

Contribute as an Agile Scrum team member to develop features across data marketplaces, mobile/web apps, and APIs. Participate in cloud migrations, test automation, code reviews, and production support with a focus on scalability, uptime, and continuous improvement.

Develop and maintain scalable web, mobile, API, and data-platform features as part of an Agile Scrum team. Implement cloud migrations, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, security controls, and production-first practices while troubleshooting production issues and contributing to continuous improvement.

The Enterprise Systems Manager oversees the global enterprise systems strategy, ensures system stability, leads the IT/IS team, and manages ERP processes and automation technologies while collaborating with various departments.

Design, build, and optimize edge data-collection agents for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering to deliver backend features, own development lifecycle, create automated tests, support SaaS products, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations.

Provide consultative engineering and high-tier support to enterprise ClickHouse customers. Split time between project engineering (design, architecture, integration, benchmarking, sizing, migrations, tooling) and consultative support (onboarding, POCs, production launches, L1-L3 cases). Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales, create documentation and benchmarks, mentor hires, and support global on-call and up to 35% onsite regional travel.

Lead and grow the Cloud Engineering team to own AWS infrastructure, IaC strategy, account and landing zone standards, cloud security, cost optimization, and platform modernization. Hands-on manager who contributes to Terraform/Ansible implementations, partners with SRE/Product/Security, drives observability and operational resilience, and reduces cloud operational risk through reusable patterns, automation, and standards.