Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Design and lead development of high-performance networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure. Architect low-latency, low-jitter communication frameworks, optimize distributed systems, benchmark scalability, resolve complex networking issues, and improve reliability, observability, and performance. Mentor engineers, create technical designs, manage dependencies, and participate in on-call operations for critical services.

Leads the design, implementation, optimization, and support of highly scalable Azure Storage services. Responsibilities include end-to-end performance testing, benchmarking, automation, profiling, bottleneck and root-cause analysis across compute, storage, and networking layers, KPI definition, scaling recommendations, and operational incident response. The role collaborates across teams, drives project and release plans, supports reliable and secure services, and mentors engineers while participating in on-call responsibilities.

Leads architecture and development of Azure Storage table, metadata, and indexing systems at massive cloud scale. Designs distributed-system primitives for partitioning, indexing, transactions, consistency, replication, caching, and high-performance data access. Drives architectural decisions, prototypes innovations through production, and improves performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Requires deep expertise in distributed storage, databases, or large-scale systems.

Define architectural direction for Azure Specialized platform services and lead the design of highly available distributed cloud systems. Drive reliability, scalability, observability, security, diagnostics, and operational improvements across engineering organizations. Establish service health frameworks, SLOs, metrics, and governance for mission-critical services. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, resolve complex cross-system challenges, and advance AI-assisted troubleshooting and platform modernization.

Develop and maintain onboard infrastructure for autonomous driving systems, including sensor drivers, health management, middleware, diagnostics, logging, recovery, and real-time data handling. Optimize autonomous driving software for embedded systems and onboard computing platforms, focusing on low latency, deterministic performance, computational efficiency, reliability, and system integration.

Develop and maintain automated calibration systems using LabVIEW, integrating NI hardware and third-party instrumentation. Build automated test procedures, user interfaces, data management solutions, and measurement workflows. Collaborate with metrology teams to align procedures with calibration standards and uncertainty requirements. Troubleshoot software, hardware, and procedure issues; document systems; train users; and communicate technical solutions to customers and stakeholders.

Designs and develops foundational Azure compute platform technologies. Leads architecture and design for complex systems, writes secure and performant production code, establishes test strategies, performs code reviews, debugs system issues, and drives cross-team technical alignment. The role also applies AI-enabled engineering practices, improves engineering quality, and supports security hardening across cloud infrastructure solutions.

Develop and assure safety-critical software for autonomous ground vehicles. Perform hazard analyses including FHA, FMEA, FMECA, FTA, and robotic capability assessments; define safety architectures, requirements, mechanisms, and verification activities; support testing, technical reviews, and safety audits. Collaborate across engineering teams on MIL-STD-882E processes, model-based safety, embedded systems, AI/ML, and autonomous vehicle capabilities while communicating safety considerations and technical progress.

Develop and optimize Firefox performance across Windows, Android, Linux, and macOS. Write code, tests, prototypes, and tooling; profile and diagnose bottlenecks; improve benchmarks; and lead performance initiatives. Collaborate across engineering teams, educate developers, drive projects to completion, own browser performance areas, and contribute to the team’s technical roadmap.

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 implement experiments deep within browser engine subsystems, including DOM, layout, rendering, accessibility, JavaScript runtimes, and networking. Investigate browser behavior, prototype capabilities for programmatic web interaction, measure performance and correctness, profile overhead, and document results. The role requires hands-on systems engineering, browser platform expertise, large-codebase development, and collaboration on AI-agent tooling.

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.

Lead as a customer‑embedded principal engineer to design, build, and ship production-grade solutions. Translate business needs into technical approaches, influence senior stakeholders, accelerate delivery in ambiguous environments, and transition work to FDE crews while driving long-term account impact.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Design, build, and maintain core gameplay systems, frameworks, Unreal Engine plugins, and multiplayer networking systems. Own technical architecture, performance, scalability, debugging, and technical debt reduction. Partner with designers and programmers, mentor engineers, lead code reviews and design discussions, document systems, and support sprint planning for an Unreal Engine game project.

Designs and develops FPGA SmartNIC networking acceleration for Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include hardware architecture evaluation, RTL coding in Verilog/SystemVerilog, simulation, hardware testing, debugging, verification, scripting, software development, Agile collaboration, and production DevOps support. The role partners across hardware and software teams to deliver cloud networking infrastructure, including SDN capabilities, packet manipulation, and performance improvements.

Design and implement PostgreSQL internals and indexing/query features for large-scale document workloads, extend query engine with BSON-aware operators and custom scan nodes, tune index pruning and storage, profile distributed systems for performance, collaborate with open-source DocumentDB/PostgreSQL communities, and participate in design/code reviews.

Leads photonic integrated circuit test software architecture, infrastructure improvements, test-station automation, and hardware-control software development. Oversees software migration across LabVIEW, Python, MATLAB, C#, and C++, while leading a small software team and mentoring engineers. The role supports electrical and optical testing of InP-based transceiver PICs at wafer, die, and subassembly levels, including vision systems, probe positioning, calibration, and test software revision control.

Build and own mobile SDKs for identity and fraud prevention products, focusing on Android development, device-level signal collection, authentication, and emerging agentic identity use cases. Partner with product and engineering leaders on architecture and roadmap decisions, improve observability and production resilience, mentor engineers, and drive technical initiatives across Twilio and Stytch.

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, 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.

Build and maintain developer workflows, CI/CD and deployment automation, containerized development environments, SDK packaging and release pipelines, AI performance dashboards, and productivity tools. Design scalable software and developer tools for novel hardware platforms, collaborate with hardware and ML teams, manage C++ codebases, establish engineering standards, and optimize software delivery and production readiness.

Leads end-to-end software development for AI-infused enterprise applications, including architecture, database design, coding, testing, deployment, and service reliability. Builds Copilot and agentic solutions using Azure and modern full-stack technologies. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, establishes quality and security practices, supports enterprise integrations, and collaborates with product teams, program managers, UX designers, and data scientists to deliver scalable commercial software.

Lead the Client Platform organization responsible for container image builds, software supply chain security, and over-the-air updates across customer environments. Manage engineering managers and approximately 10 engineers, establish engineering culture, drive architecture decisions, operate secure CI/CD pipelines, and own distributed update systems. Partner with security research, product management, and customer success to deliver the client-side roadmap.

Lead architecture and development for AKS Flex, scaling etcd and Kubernetes control planes for distributed node fleets. Design remote-node provisioning, lifecycle automation, Kubernetes-native APIs, secure bootstrap, upgrades, and reliability systems across Azure, on-premises, edge, and other clouds. Drive performance testing, production operations, open-source collaboration, technical strategy, cross-team alignment, and mentorship while solving distributed-systems, storage, security, and scalability challenges.