Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend platform services and shared libraries. Contribute to architecture, reliability, developer experience, continuous delivery, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Investigate production issues, implement lasting fixes, participate in technical reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver business value. The role also encourages thoughtful use of AI tools to improve productivity.

Design and implement scalable first-mile networking solutions for Microsoft 365 Substrate and COSMIC. Drive design, dependency identification, coding, optimization, debugging, and on-call monitoring. Analyze production telemetry to improve reliability, performance, and observability. Act as a DRI, lead design and release plans, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet product requirements at global scale.

Design, build, and maintain pipeline and artist-facing tools across web, desktop, and Unreal surfaces. Develop Python integrations with Maya, Unreal, Nuke, Perforce, and AYON; build AI-assisted features; and own tools through production. Collaborate directly with artists and supervisors, manage work autonomously, and deliver responsive, maintainable, well-tested software.

Develop and optimize low-level embedded software and firmware for wireless communication systems. Integrate WiFi and 5G/LTE modules, support board bring-up, and validate hardware-software interactions. Optimize CPU, DSP, FPGA, and power performance; implement secure boot and OTA firmware updates; debug complex subsystem interactions; and collaborate with hardware and cross-functional teams. Maintain technical documentation and participate in code reviews.

Build and operate backend APIs, a reusable integration platform, security-tool connectors, MCP capabilities, and event-driven services. Own GraphQL federation, permissions, multi-tenant access, reliability, observability, vendor API resilience, and production operations. Collaborate across engineering, product, and security teams while mentoring other engineers and contributing to technical standards.

Build and operate backend services for licensing, entitlements, provisioning, access control, multi-tenant administration, MSP/MSSP workflows, audit logging, and notifications. Design reliable cloud-native systems using Docker, Kubernetes, and relational databases, while contributing to observability, incident response, documentation, testing, and platform security. Collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams and mentor less experienced engineers.

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.

Lead and grow a software engineering team responsible for CUDA Math Libraries platform expansion and readiness. Own integration, qualification, compliance, validation, performance testing, defect triage, and technical roadmaps across specialized platforms. Collaborate with library, DevOps, QA, compiler, CUDA, release, and platform teams. The role requires hands-on high-performance numerical software development using C++ and Python, parallel computing, performance optimization, and software engineering leadership.

Build and scale full-stack applications using Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Design APIs, data architectures, synchronization systems, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for secure, reliable operation in disconnected and low-bandwidth environments. Collaborate across engineering, business development, and mission teams while supporting critical defense and public safety operations.

Lead design and implementation of Pinterest Edge systems (CDN, TLS, DNS, proxies) to manage automation traffic and rate limiting at scale. Develop request-processing logic in Envoy, collaborate with vendors and platform teams, mentor engineers, use AI to accelerate workflows, and participate in on-call incident response and reliability improvements.

Owns core platforms that deliver autonomous driving software from development through vehicle deployment. Responsibilities include C++ build and packaging systems, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud and edge services, APIs, event-driven architecture, identity and access control, PKI, mTLS, secrets management, and fleet operations. The role also involves code review, architectural design, infrastructure on-call, mentoring, and cross-team technical leadership.

Design and own LLM inference runtime components, including engine integration, continuous batching, KV cache management, quantized execution, and distributed GPU execution. Build Kubernetes orchestration for scheduling, routing, admission, and autoscaling. Optimize latency, throughput, and GPU utilization; evaluate emerging inference technologies; resolve customer issues; conduct code reviews; and mentor engineers.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains robotics middleware and application frameworks in modern C++ on embedded Linux. Owns platform components through deployment and fleet operation, improves reliability and performance, diagnoses complex concurrency and systems issues, and translates safety requirements into software behavior and verification. Collaborates across autonomy, systems, hardware, and software teams while leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers.

Develop low-level embedded controls and communication interfaces for industrial vehicles. Responsibilities include analyzing CAN, J1939, and proprietary protocols; integrating Beckhoff PLCs and TwinCAT; implementing commands, state machines, diagnostics, and fault handling; building tests and simulators; debugging machine bring-up; and supporting customer-site commissioning. The role requires collaboration with electrical, robotics, and vehicle integration engineers.

Develop and integrate machine drivers, hardware abstractions, sensor and actuator interfaces, and vehicle-specific software for Hive’s autonomous robotics platform. Connect vehicle data, commands, diagnostics, and telemetry; configure and calibrate systems; debug hardware-software issues; and create automated, simulation, regression, and hardware-in-the-loop tests. Validate robotic systems on real machines, support field commissioning and customer acceptance, and help develop reusable integration patterns.

Design, implement, and maintain core systems for thatgamecompany’s custom game engine. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to gather requirements, deliver features, and iterate on solutions. Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot technical issues and inefficiencies across complex codebases to improve development effectiveness. Potential focus areas include CPU/GPU performance, cross-platform support, netcode, multithreading, audio, and rendering.

Build and operate multi-cloud infrastructure for MariaDB Cloud, designing application layers, APIs, cloud-native services, automation, and database-adjacent features. Own production capabilities end to end across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Python, and backend languages. Develop AI-enabled workflows involving vector databases, semantic search, RAG, and LLM agents while ensuring security, observability, scalability, and reliable deployment.

Design and build JTX, a high-performance Solana trading application. Develop low-latency, reliable systems for order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management. Own critical infrastructure, implement security across transaction signing and user data, make architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams in a fast-moving 0-to-1 environment.

Build edge-focused full-stack product experiences integrating machine learning and autonomy for frontline defense users. Collaborate with designers, infrastructure teams, product teams, and ML engineers to create intuitive applications, efficient edge-deployed application stacks, and internal modeling APIs. Develop maintainable software using strong engineering practices, including design documents, code reviews, and style guides.

Lead architecture, development, and delivery of Azure SmartNIC and networking software, including RDMA, virtualization, hardware offloads, and high-performance networking. Collaborate across hardware, firmware, silicon, and cloud teams; improve reliability and performance using telemetry; guide platform strategy; troubleshoot production systems; and provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and incident response.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Alpaca’s margin and risk systems across equities, options, crypto, and future asset classes. Design low-latency, high-throughput services for margin calculation, real-time risk enforcement, exposure limits, margin calls, and operational workflows. Drive reliability, correctness, transactional integrity, observability, incident prevention, technical reviews, mentorship, and cross-functional integration with product, brokerage operations, compliance, and engineering teams.

Deploy and integrate Shield AIs Hivemind autonomy software with customers worldwide. Provide on-site technical support, training, debugging, and documentation. Collaborate with sales and product engineering to support pre- and post-sales activities and improve autonomy products.

Design and scale ARM64 compute platform infrastructure, hypervisor integrations, instance management, resource orchestration tools, and compute APIs. Develop and maintain low-level services using Python, Go, or compiled systems languages. Collaborate with hardware and global engineering teams, participate in design reviews, debug distributed Linux systems, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Write tested, high-quality code; translate product requirements into scalable designs; lead design, code, and sprint activities; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role also drives technical strategy, resolves delivery impediments, and promotes secure, maintainable, and reusable engineering solutions.