441 software engineer operating systems jobs at 185 companies in Santa Clara, CA
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Software Engineer - Operating Systems
San Carlos, California, United States
$200k-$280k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years shipping embedded Linux systems with BSP, kernel and distribution ownership; production device driver development; Yocto or Buildroot experience; kernel-level debugging and tracing expertise.
Yocto, Buildroot, Linux, PREEMPT_RT, CI/CD, kernel tracing tools, serial consoles
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Systems/Software Engineer II
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$106k-$214k/yr HybridFull Time
4+ YOERequires an M.S. in Computer Engineering or a B.S. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering with 4+ years of experience. Requires programming, networking, operating systems, testing, automation, and communication skills.
Python, Go, Linux, FreeBSD, VM, ROBOT, Perl, YAML, JSON, Spirent, Ixia, TCP/IP, Ethernet, VLAN, STP, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, SNMP
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Senior Software Engineer - Systems
Santa Clara, California, United States
$150k-$400k/yr OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years building and operating backend systems; distributed systems fundamentals; experience with data pipelines; proficiency in a systems language; cloud, container, CI/CD experience.
Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Go, Rust, Java, C++, Python, AWS, GCP, K8s, CI/CD, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP, A2A
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Embedded Linux Operating Systems
Foster City, California, United States
$235k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years delivering production systems with 2+ years building custom Embedded Linux OS; deep Linux, Yocto, U-Boot, device driver and kernel knowledge; proficiency in C/C++/Rust and scripting (bash, Python).
Yocto, U-Boot, systemd, chroot, cgroups, Linux namespaces, C, C++, Rust, Bash, Python, Nvidia GPUs, Nvidia Thor/Orin, CUDA, TRT
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Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)
San Francisco, California, United States
$255k-$405k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Experience building and operating reliable infrastructure for research workloads; strong systems fundamentals, Linux, networking, Kubernetes, automation, and debugging skills; ability to write software for infrastructure.
Linux, Kubernetes, PXE, Git, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code
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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Francisco or Alameda County or Contra Costa County or Marin County or Napa County or San Mateo County or Santa Clara County or Solano County or Sonoma County
$160k-$180k/yr OnsiteFull Time
2+ YOE2+ years building backend systems, experience with distributed systems, operating/maintaining critical tier 0 services, knowledge of monitoring and alerting, familiarity with open source and cloud environments.
Elixir, GCP, AWS, Salt, Terraform, k8s
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Software Development Engineer -AI/Agentic Systems
Redwood City, California, United States
$186k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOERequires 7+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years in platform, developer tooling, or AI/ML systems, production agentic systems experience, backend programming, cloud-native operations, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Amazon Bedrock Agents, GitHub APIs, GitHub Actions, Kafka, EventBridge, RabbitMQ, REST, GraphQL, Temporal, n8n.io, Prefect, Backstage, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
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Enterprise Systems Software Engineer Intern (Spring 2027)
South San Francisco, California, United States
$54/hr OnsiteMultiple Commitments Available
Software engineering internship requiring systems design, data modeling, stakeholder collaboration, operational reliability, and experience delivering measurable software impact. Regular on-site work and travel required.
Python, Go, PostgreSQL, React, Kafka, gRPC, AWS, Grafana, Honeycomb, Microsoft AI, CI/CD
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Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Golang)
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Build and operate distributed service platforms and infrastructure at global scale, using software to solve complex reliability and scalability problems.
Golang
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Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, XR
San Jose or Kirkland
$174k-$252k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent, 5 years of C/C++ software development, 3 years with embedded operating systems, product launch experience, and software design and architecture experience.
C, C++, Git, Gerrit, Microcontroller (MCU), Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)
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Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
12+ YOERequires a CS or Computer Engineering bachelor's or master's degree, 12+ years of systems software experience, expert C/C++ and Python, Linux, operating systems, distributed systems, and performance optimization expertise.
C, C++, Python, Linux, Rust, Go, Kubernetes, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code
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Software Engineer, Systems Generalist
San Francisco, California, United States
$350k-$475k/yr HybridFull Time
Bachelor's degree or equivalent, proficiency in Python or Rust, experience operating large-scale clusters and Kubernetes or Slurm, and end-to-end ownership of infrastructure projects.
Python, Rust, Kubernetes, Slurm, Spark
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Senior Staff AI-Native Software Engineer – Agentic Systems
Santa Clara, California, United States
$201k-$352k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience with strong data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems; production experience building and operating agentic/multi-agent AI systems; production-grade Python; familiarity with Go/Java/C++; experience with frontier AI SDKs, RAG/retrieval, and technical leadership.
Python, Go, Java, C++, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, RAG, CMDB, Workflow Data Fabric, Knowledge Graph, MCP, Claude Cowork, NVIDIA
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Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Los Angeles or Seattle or United Kingdom or Ireland or Poland or Germany or Australia
$207k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience building and operating scalable backend or full‑stack distributed systems; strong system design, production ownership, and mentoring; experience with Python, Elixir, or JavaScript preferred.
Python, Elixir, JavaScript
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Principal Software Engineer
United States or Canada or Columbus or Austin or San Francisco or New York City
$191k-$264k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent and 8+ years software engineering experience; designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, relational schemas, APIs, auth/RBAC; partnering with risk/compliance/operations teams.
TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, Prisma, SOC 2, NIST CSF
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Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems (Rust)
San Francisco or California or United States
$140k-$170k/yr RemoteFull Time
Strong production Rust experience, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure knowledge, Kubernetes experience, production operations and observability skills, and deep understanding of fault tolerance and concurrency.
Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, Aurora, Go, Python
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Software Engineer II
Benicia, California, United States
$108k-$149k/yr OnsiteFull Time
2+ YOEBachelor's in related field, 2+ years experience, proficiency in C/C++, .Net, C#, Python and operating systems; strong software engineering, debugging, and communication skills.
C/C++, .Net, C#, Python, Operating Systems
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Software Engineer
New York City or San Francisco or Austin or Chicago
$120k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years engineering experience building and operating production systems; end-to-end ownership; scaling production systems; applied AI interest; strong communication and product collaboration skills.
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Software Engineer, Real-time Software
Santa Clara, California, United States
$106k-$170k/yr HybridFull Time
2+ YOEBachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer/electrical engineering, or robotics; 2+ years writing multithreaded C++ production software; knowledge of concurrency, operating systems, Git, and debugging tools.
C++, EtherCAT, CAN, Git, JTAG, Linux, RTOS, Python, CANOpen, IEC 62304
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Senior Software Engineer
Seattle or Santa Clara or United States
$79k-$210k/yr OnsiteFull Time
4+ YOE4+ years software engineering experience; BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent; experience building and operating production systems; strong coding, testing, debugging, and design skills; operational services and incident response experience.
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