Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop scalable C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior across millions of managed Windows endpoints. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, shipping production code, designing new systems, writing architecture documents, defining subsystem contracts, and collaborating with server, UI, product, and design teams. The role requires deep Windows systems and kernel-driver expertise, with preferred experience in WHQL, minifilter or WFP drivers, macOS Endpoint Security, and Linux kernel development.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot REST services, APIs, and microservices for mission-critical geospatial systems. Support containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, DevOps automation, testing, infrastructure deployment, data platforms, and third-party integrations. Contribute to architecture, performance optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder demos, and Agile delivery. The role requires onsite work in Herndon, Virginia and collaboration on national security missions.

Build and maintain MongoDB’s distributed database infrastructure for cluster scalability. Design data partitioning, data movement, dynamic scaling, workload execution, and resilient distributed protocols. Solve complex performance and low-latency systems problems, contribute production-quality C++ code, participate in design and code reviews, lead new feature development, and mentor engineers.

Leads performance engineering across the organization by designing load-testing and data-generation frameworks, defining benchmarks and standards, analyzing application, database, and system behavior, and guiding teams in performance optimization. Builds reusable tooling and best practices using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB while addressing scalability, latency, throughput, and reliability challenges in distributed cloud-native systems.

Leads and manages an 8–10-person storage engineering team responsible for MongoDB’s transactional read/write path, durability, availability, performance, indexing, and storage architecture. Owns the roadmap, customer escalations, cross-team initiatives, engineering quality, hiring, coaching, and execution. Partners with Replication, Query, Sharding, Atlas, and other teams on distributed systems and workload-management improvements.

Design and develop scalable C++ software for endpoint state and control across Windows, macOS, and potentially Linux. Build reliable, multi-process systems that enforce endpoint behavior, manage local state, support IPC, and operate across millions of devices. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, writing design documents, defining architecture and IPC contracts, and making technical decisions in an evolving, sparsely documented environment.

Build scalable, API-first platform capabilities through manifest-driven development. Develop Java and Kotlin backend services and Python workers for third-party integrations, collaborate across engineering teams, participate in architecture reviews, and troubleshoot production systems using logs, metrics, and traces. The role requires expertise in highly scalable systems, object-oriented design, REST services, relational databases, responsive messaging, caching, and software quality practices.

Design and implement scalable backup software for endpoints, servers, and cloud applications. Develop Java and Kotlin services, optimize databases and queries, debug production systems, and resolve distributed-system performance issues. Contribute code, reviews, architecture discussions, documentation, and cross-team reliability initiatives. Mentor engineers and help deliver resilient products operating at large scale.

Lead development and architecture of highly scalable Java services supporting NinjaOne’s third-party patching catalog. Design high-availability systems, solve complex scalability and system-design challenges, improve quality and performance, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and own technical initiatives. The role requires expertise in Java, RESTful APIs, Spring, relational databases, caching, asynchronous application design, and large-scale cloud systems.

Develop and architect scalable Java software for NinjaOne’s endpoint management platform. The role involves building high-availability services, leading technical initiatives, making architectural decisions, improving quality practices, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring engineers, and addressing scalability, performance, and technical debt challenges.

Design and develop scalable, highly available software systems for NinjaOne’s IT Operations platform. Build Java and Kotlin applications, implement enterprise design patterns, optimize systems serving millions of endpoints, and contribute production code. Responsibilities include REST service development, relational database work, client-server messaging, caching, scalability improvements, and quality testing. The role collaborates with engineers to deliver reliable cloud services supporting worldwide operations.

Design and develop scalable, high-availability software for NinjaOne’s endpoint management platform. Build Java and Kotlin applications, implement enterprise design patterns, optimize systems operating at massive scale, and contribute reliable code to production products. Responsibilities include API and REST service development, relational database design, client-server development, caching systems, quality testing, and solving scalability challenges across cloud services supporting millions of endpoints.

Develop and analyze safety-critical flight software requirements, architecture, interfaces, documentation, and verification activities for NASA’s Moon Base program. Identify software vulnerabilities, support cybersecurity risk mitigation, maintain requirements traceability, coordinate defect resolution and milestone reviews, and oversee compliance with NASA software engineering standards. The role also supports integration testing, software tools and scripts, technical assessments, and collaboration with NASA and contractor engineering teams.

Develop and analyze safety-critical NASA flight software for a lunar 5G communications network. Responsibilities include requirements engineering, architecture and document reviews, risk mitigation, interface definition, defect tracking, milestone reviews, requirements traceability, integration and verification, and compliance with NASA SSET standards. The role interfaces with NASA and contractor engineering teams and supports software tools, testing, and technical boards at Johnson Space Center.

Develop, integrate, test, debug, and maintain high-fidelity real-time spacecraft simulation software supporting NASA Orion and Artemis missions. Build C++ and Python systems in Linux, conduct software verification across multiple test levels, support 6-DoF simulation and spacecraft test environments, maintain requirements traceability and configuration management, and collaborate with engineering teams and government customers.

Design, implement, maintain, integrate, and test flight software for Nebula spacecraft. Responsibilities include hardware/software integration, I/O performance assessment, serial and packetized communications, unit and integration testing, and collaboration with hardware engineering teams.

Develops and maintains high-fidelity spacecraft simulation models, including environmental, vehicle, sensor, effector, and interface models. Responsibilities include real-time and faster-than-real-time simulation, HWIL testing, FDIR fault modeling, verification and unit testing, SQA tool development, and support for flight software, ground software, and operations teams. The role collaborates with aerospace, GNC, vehicle software, and subsystem engineers.

Own embedded perception sensor systems from hardware bring-up through production. Develop camera drivers, device tree overlays, and low-latency sensor pipelines on NVIDIA Jetson platforms. Build multi-sensor synchronization, calibration, and validation infrastructure, while partnering with electrical engineers and silicon vendors. Qualify sensors for harsh industrial environments involving heat, vibration, EMI, welding arcs, and ingress. Support perception and autonomy teams as the technical authority on sensor capabilities.

Build and operate low-latency market data systems for institutional trading, including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, venue connectivity, and distribution services. Develop high-throughput services, improve reliability and performance through observability and incident response, participate in on-call support, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role requires production backend engineering experience, market data infrastructure expertise, Java or C++, messaging frameworks, and exchange connectivity protocols.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Performs hands-on mechanical and electrical testing of electric and internal-combustion forklifts. Develops test plans, cases, scripts, automated fixtures, and custom setups; conducts performance, functional, and durability tests; analyzes results; troubleshoots issues with cross-functional teams; and maintains test documentation and reports.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Lead design and implementation of modernized insurance underwriting and policy administration solutions. Drive cloud transformation, data-driven and secure architectures, improve risk selection and claims resolution, enhance customer experience through automation, mentor technical teams, manage client relationships, and oversee project lifecycle, budgets, and delivery quality.