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$187,600–$328,300/yr
North America Canada

  • Lead Red Hat OS & Kernel Strategy to define and maintain the reference RHEL OS baseline.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex kernel-level issues using tools such as crash, kdump, perf, eBPF, systemtap, and systemd/journal analysis.
  • Design and implement scalable automation using Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and Red Hat Satellite to manage lifecycle operations.

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Configure, deploy, and maintain Linux based systems, networking equipment, and virtualization platforms. Work closely with DevOps and Network Security teams to automate tasks, harden systems, and improve operational visibility. Improve system monitoring and visibility in cooperation with Network and Security Operations.

Ridgeline helps government and enterprise organizations protect what matters most in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

$155,000–$165,000/yr
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  • Lead maintenance and operations for production and development environments.
  • Architect and implement complex solutions spanning OS, virtualization, network, and cloud layers.
  • Lead automation initiatives for infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks.

NMI enables partners with choice in payments, challenging the one-size-fits-all approach. They power innovative tech for SMBs, entrepreneurs, and fintech startups, fostering a diverse and welcoming workplace with a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion action group.

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  • Collaborate regularly and proactively with a globally distributed team
  • Work closely with silicon vendor partners to integrate their platform support into the Ubuntu Linux kernel
  • Diagnose and resolve issues in the kernel reported by partners, customers, and the community

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source, publishing Ubuntu. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, they are changing the world on a daily basis.

$80,000–$90,000/yr

Mentor and train Junior System Administrators and System Administrators. Act as lead on projects. Provide software setup of new nodes.

Vultr aims to provide high-performance cloud infrastructure that is easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators globally.

Canada 5w PTO

Design, implement, and evolve large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure supporting MariaDB's global SaaS platform. Lead reliability and scalability initiatives, driving automation and resilience through infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices. Proactively identify and remediate systemic reliability issues, ensuring high service availability and performance across multi-cloud environments.

MariaDB is making a big impact on the world and is the backbone of applications used everyday, including 75% of the Fortune 500 companies.

  • Influence and align cross-functional teams on platform evolution.
  • Architect and evolve hypervisor integrations across thousands of hosts.
  • Drive advanced performance tuning across CPU, memory, I/O, networking, and storage layers.

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world.

US

Manage and resolve high-impact customer escalations for enterprise products and services. Act as a technical liaison between engineering and support teams to drive rapid issue resolution. Debug and troubleshoot complex problems in cloud environments and operating systems (Linux/Unix).

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure.

US

Seeking an experienced software engineer with a strong background in low-level drive the integration of chassis hardware and software to deliver reliable, secure embedded solutions. Develop and maintain software framework for repeatedly configuring and deploying linux operating systems for enterprise systems. Create systems ensuring reliable and secure field updates for all software components.

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today.

$75,000–$100,000/yr

Help build and operate core cloud-native systems including VKE, VLB, VCR, Vultr Inference, NAT Gateways, and our internal APIs. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of Kubernetes components, container runtime internals, and modern IaC/automation practices. This role will have a direct impact on Vultr’s global cloud infrastructure footprint.

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world.

$125,031–$140,657/yr
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In this role, you’ll be at the intersection of security, automation, and distributed systems. You’ll take ownership of hardening complex hybrid environments from bare-metal validators to multi-cloud clusters ensuring our systems are both fast and fortress-strong. You’ll join a distributed, high-performing Blockchain DevOps team that values ownership, transparency, and innovation.

Figment powers the future of Web3 through industry-leading blockchain infrastructure as the leading provider of staking solutions.

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As a Support Engineer, you’ll sit at the intersection of Support and Engineering, helping GitLab customers solve complex problems. You’ll dig into Linux systems, Git, logs, and our codebase to troubleshoot performance issues. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Development, Infrastructure, Customer Success, and Sales to shape bug reports, influence the roadmap, and improve documentation.

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations.

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  • Optimize Ubuntu for new silicon technologies, such as hardware accelerators and AI stacks.
  • Debug issues on open source code and assist customers in integrating their apps and SDKs.
  • Maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across various platforms and technologies.

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.

Canada 5w PTO

  • Design and evolve infrastructure systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Lead and mentor a distributed infrastructure team, fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.
  • Oversee all cloud environments supporting MZLA’s products and business systems.

MZLA Technologies Corporation (MZLA) is a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation and home to Thunderbird. They are a small but growing team of 50+ people distributed across seven countries building an open-source email and productivity platform.

$120,000–$180,000/yr
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  • Focused on creation of tools to enhance and support automated workflows.
  • Architecting and implementing solutions to support the team’s production deployments.
  • Work on a high-performing remote team with interesting problems to solve.

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, their mission has been to stop breaches, and they've redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform.

  • Automate manual processes to provide efficiencies in managing services.
  • Create visual representations of systems and services using Grafana dashboards.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to align development efforts with reliability, scalability, and business objectives.

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world.

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Support the evolution of our platform by improving scalability, reliability, observability, and security. Proactively identify bottlenecks and unlock the autonomy of the entire engineering team. Maintain infrastructure & deployment pipelines and collaborate with engineering teams on architectural decisions and production-readiness practices.

Feegow joined the Docplanner Group, a health-tech company, in 2022 and is dedicated to developing innovative solutions for physicians and managers.

As an Automation and Release Engineer, you will work closely with CIQ’s Engineering and Operations teams to architect, implement, and maintain automation, build, and test tooling for everything from Linux packages to entire operating system images for use in on-prem, cloud, and high-performance computing environments. This role requires a deep technical understanding of Linux, modern automation and build tooling, scripting and software development, and systems engineering, as well as an insatiable appetite for learning more.

CIQ is becoming the fastest-growing and most impactful young company for providing software infrastructure.

$106,600–$165,300/yr
North America Canada

Ensures the production reliability and scalability of customer application(s) and infrastructure services from an operations perspective. Responsible for restoring database/application services, guiding SRE and CS operations on any database-related issues. Develop automation tools to facilitate and improve day-to-day operations, like Ansible and scripting in Python/Ruby.

ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®.

Design, implement, monitor and maintain Sysdig's Infrastructure at scale on different clouds and on-prem. Collaborate with development teams to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability. Participate in on-call rotation, respond to incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and implement preventive measures.

Sysdig helps organizations secure innovation in the cloud with runtime insights, open innovation, and agentic AI, trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500.

Americas EMEA Unlimited PTO

Focus on delivering and supporting GitLab for self-managed customers. Build and maintain the infrastructure, tooling, and automation that power our deployment options. Improve installation and upgrade experiences.

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform , used by more than 100,000 organizations.