Top C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Develops and maintains BIOS and platform firmware for server and high-performance computing systems. Responsibilities include platform bring-up, firmware implementation, hardware initialization, debugging, testing, integration, and release readiness. Collaborates with hardware teams, BIOS vendors, silicon partners, and software engineers while coordinating projects and mentoring less-experienced staff. The role requires expertise in C/C++, UEFI, Linux development environments, firmware testing, and complex hardware-software integration.

Provides Level 3 customer support for HPE Cray Programming Environment software. Analyzes, reproduces, isolates, debugs, and resolves complex issues; develops workarounds; escalates unresolved problems to HPE R&D or external partners; performs pre-release testing; documents issue resolution; supports customers after hours; and mentors less-experienced staff.

Leads and grows a distributed software engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining NinjaOne SaaS products. Provides technical direction, participates in architecture, code reviews, integrations, and deployments, and partners with product, platform, and project management teams. Oversees engineering operations, team mentoring, software quality, continuous improvement, and successful product delivery across UI, mobile, server, and agent systems.

Lead and support reliability, performance, and operational integrity of equities electronic trading systems. Provide hands-on DevOps/SRE production support for FIX connectivity, Linux troubleshooting, Grafana observability, Kafka on AWS, incident triage, root cause analysis, automation via Python and Bash, and cross-team collaboration including investigating C++ components.

A 12-week unpaid fellowship providing hands-on training in Palantir Foundry and AIP. Participants attend live virtual instruction, complete technical projects, engage with Palantir engineers and leadership, and earn a professional certification. The program seeks builders with technical experience in software, data, automation, process improvement, prototyping, or related fields. Exceptional performers may interview for roles at Palantir or partner companies.

Design and implement C++ features for MongoDB’s replication infrastructure, improving availability, recovery, consistency, performance, and fault tolerance. Diagnose distributed-systems issues, develop comprehensive tests, collaborate across engineering teams, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers. The role involves owning technical work from investigation through delivery and contributing to major MongoDB releases.

Develop and maintain MongoDB server workload resilience infrastructure in C++ or Rust. Design workload policies for rate limiting, prioritization, overload mitigation, availability, and performance. Write unit and integration tests, investigate failures, improve observability, diagnose and fix complex distributed-system issues, and lead technical projects. Collaborate across engineering teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in hiring, and improve operational readiness, monitoring, incident management, and rollout processes.

Develop high-performance research platforms and tools that bring trading strategies to life. Work in small teams to design, build, and deploy resilient systems using distributed computing, NLP, and machine learning to solve large-data problems in finance.

As a Software Engineer at Citadel, you will build systems for investments, collaborate with researchers, and tackle complex problems.

Lead development of scalable Java software applications and high-availability services. Design architectures, solve complex system challenges, improve performance and scalability, and maintain quality standards. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, own technical initiatives, address support-driven issues, and implement robust testing practices for mission-critical IT operations products.

Design, develop, and enhance scalable Java software for NinjaOne’s IT Operations platform. Lead architectural decisions, build high-availability services, address scalability and technical debt, improve quality practices, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and own technical initiatives supporting millions of endpoints and servers.

Lead development of scalable Java applications and high-availability services. Design system architecture, solve complex scalability challenges, improve quality, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and own technical initiatives supporting a global IT operations platform.

Deploy production software alongside military operators in restricted and air-gapped environments. Integrate core and simulation platforms with partner C2 systems and databases, write scripts, transform schemas, debug distributed systems, analyze logs, isolate failures, and convert recurring field workarounds into reusable product capabilities. Brief engineers and senior military stakeholders while translating mission needs into technical solutions.

Lead HPC and AI benchmarking across CPU, GPU, networking, memory, and storage platforms. Analyze scientific, engineering, LLM, training, inference, and I/O workloads; identify bottlenecks; and optimize applications, frameworks, libraries, compilers, runtimes, and system software. Apply parallel computing, GPU acceleration, profiling, and memory and I/O optimization while translating findings into customer-focused recommendations.

Leads architecture and development of scalable, high-availability software systems supporting millions of endpoints. Owns complex multi-team initiatives, makes technical decisions, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and improves software quality. Requires deep Java development, distributed systems, API design, database engineering, system scalability, testing, and AI-assisted development experience.

Research and analyze vehicle network signals, OEM telematics data, wiring diagrams, and field logs to expand vehicle telemetry coverage. Capture and interpret vehicle network data using live debugging, log analysis, scraping, reverse engineering, and custom scripts. Validate solutions on vehicles and at customer locations, document findings, and collaborate with global engineering and product teams to support new telematics capabilities.

Leads software engineering for a strategic index platform supporting trading, sales, structuring, risk, P&L, execution, booking, market data, and client applications. Manages global programs and projects, collaborates with stakeholders and technology teams, influences architecture and design, and delivers reliable, well-tested software. Requires strong large-scale development expertise, business partnership, Agile practices, and ownership through production. Financial markets or investment banking application development experience is preferred.

Develop and test real-time navigation flight software for lunar missions. Responsibilities include GN&C sensor integration, software- and hardware-in-the-loop environments, navigation modeling, spacecraft dynamics, orbital mechanics, and cross-functional flight and ground software support. The role requires regular onsite work in Houston or Glen Burnie.

Develops, integrates, tests, validates, and verifies safety-critical guidance, navigation, and control algorithms and flight software for NASA deep-space exploration. Uses MATLAB, Simulink, Autocode, Python, and C/C++ to analyze simulations and flight software, conduct deep-dive investigations, and recommend process improvements. Requires collaboration with NASA personnel and contractor teams.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Serves as an RF communications systems engineer supporting NASA space exploration programs. Responsibilities include analyzing RF links, developing link budgets, evaluating interference and spectrum compatibility, reviewing communications protocols and subsystem requirements, supporting technical design reviews, and serving as a technical point of contact. The role requires expertise in digital communications, DSP, modulation, coding, signal detection, and network protocols, with preferred experience in CCSDS standards, spectrum management, antennas, RF propagation, and space communications.

Analyzes RF communications systems for NASA space exploration programs, including link budgets, protocol performance, interference, compatibility, spectral and power flux density analyses. Reviews subsystem requirements and interfaces, supports technical reviews, and serves as a communications engineering point of contact across NASA centers and partners. Uses MATLAB, Simulink, and Excel for modeling and simulation.

Develops, tests, implements, and maintains corporate websites, intranet systems, and web applications. Uses .NET technologies, databases, reporting tools, and cloud hosting to support business and member-facing solutions. Responsibilities include troubleshooting and optimization, documentation, dashboard and integration development, SSL certificate management, vendor coordination, and software updates. Participates in on-call rotations, after-hours support, disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response activities.

Develop cross-platform C++ and Qt software for network device discovery, monitoring, and data collection across Windows and Linux. Build high-performance, concurrent, asynchronous systems that communicate with thousands of devices using SNMP, SSH, ICMP, WMI, and related protocols. Own testing, troubleshoot issues across application, operating-system, and network layers, optimize reliability and performance, and collaborate with backend, UI, QA, and product teams.

Own the reliability, performance, architecture, and lifecycle of heterogeneous database platforms. Design and operate relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse systems; improve provisioning, developer tooling, CI/CD, backups, disaster recovery, security, and performance. Influence architecture and product decisions, lead migrations and upgrades, troubleshoot developer and production environments, and establish platform standards, documentation, and regulatory traceability.