Top C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based software solutions; collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams; create design documents; write and refactor code; act as a designated responsible individual (DRI) for services, monitor and respond to incidents, and drive reliability, observability, and performance improvements.

Develop, deploy, and optimize software for NASA Flight Sciences Lab HPC resources. Partner with users and contractors, mentor HPC software practices, support guidance/navigation and analysis workflows, debug and improve CI/CD, containers, and HPC integrations.

Customize and configure ServiceNow applications and workflows, manage releases and environments, analyze system interactions, gather and document requirements, develop integrations and import data, troubleshoot issues, and maintain processes, standards, and tools to support Service Transformation and IT operations.

Lead development and maintenance of gameplay features and systems for multiplayer live-service games using C++ and Unreal Engine. Integrate backend services, optimize client-side caching and APIs, build designer-facing tools, estimate and prioritize backlog, debug crashes on PC/console, mentor engineers, and collaborate with designers and external partners to deliver performant multiplayer features.

Lead the on-vehicle autonomy team to design, build, integrate, and field autonomy software for autonomous surface vessels. Own navigation, planning, control, behaviors, safety logic, and autonomy execution; drive architecture, testing, simulation, HIL, field deployments, and cross-functional integration while mentoring engineers and ensuring mission-ready, maintainable autonomy systems.

Lead verification of custom ASIC/SoC from block to full-chip: develop verification plans, build SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches, run constrained-random and directed tests, use SVA and formal methods, manage regressions and CI, drive coverage closure, support post-silicon bring-up, and influence DV methodology across cross-functional teams.

Lead and grow distributed database-internals engineering teams owning TimescaleDB. Set technical roadmaps, prioritize work with Product, collaborate with Platform, handle customer escalations, mentor engineers, and drive delivery of reliable, high-performance database systems.

Lead design, build, and maintenance of scalable, secure blockchain participation and custody infrastructure. Improve automation, monitoring, incident response, and observability; debug distributed protocols; inform leadership strategy; scope product opportunities; and support on-call reliability and deployment automation.

Lead development of the production toolchain that compiles complex Python packages (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch). Build and maintain build/release pipelines, create and review conda recipes, automate processes, mentor engineers, run incident response and postmortems, and advise leadership on technical tradeoffs. Partner with distribution and wheels teams and validate AI-assisted code where used.

Develop and maintain GPU performance foundation libraries and test frameworks for Nsight tools. Implement GPU assembly tests, use emulators/simulators to validate instruction events, and document data workflows. Collaborate with hardware architecture teams to enable performance analysis and optimization of GPU-accelerated applications.

Support and grow the RAPIDS DevOps infrastructure: manage hardware, design and maintain container/build processes, develop and publish Python packages, operate CI/CD, observability, security compliance, Linux systems, and collaborate with engineers to implement DevOps best practices.

Design, build, and scale embedded connectivity and security for distributed energy devices. Implement networking (Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/Thread/Zigbee/BLE), secure provisioning, OTA firmware pipelines, telemetry, and diagnostics. Support testing, certification, manufacturing validation, and cross-functional collaboration from prototype to deployment.

Lead design and implementation of large-scale Pub/Sub and messaging services within Azure Event Grid/Microsoft Fabric. Define scalable, reliable architectures, drive testing and CI/CD automation, build developer tooling, mentor engineers, manage incident response and operational excellence, and collaborate with PMs, EMs, researchers, and customers to deliver production-ready cloud services.

Design, build, and operate infrastructure for Azure Red Hat OpenShift's Hosted Control Plane. Manage and automate hundreds of AKS clusters, automate regional buildouts and CI/CD, monitor and release microservices, improve product integration with AKS, and collaborate with Microsoft and Red Hat to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native infrastructure.

Design and deliver customer-specific solutions on the Digimarc Illuminate platform: configure accounts, build integrations and web add-ons (Node/JavaScript), script data imports/exports, create demos/POCs, provide 2nd/3rd-level support, and collaborate with product, engineering, and customers to ensure successful deployments.

Lead technical artist for small R&D games team focused on performance and optimization across CPU/GPU/memory. Profile and resolve rendering, shader, animation, and pipeline bottlenecks; prototype visuals and game tech; build art pipelines, tools, and optimized assets; produce textures, models, shaders, and effects; mentor cross-discipline teams and enable shipping on constrained or emerging platforms.

Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant distributed data infrastructure and platform tooling. Collaborate cross-functionally to architect high-impact systems, contribute to library and platform development, and improve deployment, control, and observability for large-scale data systems.

Lead technical direction and architecture for a low-latency, high-throughput ad-serving platform. Design and optimize concurrent distributed systems, profile and mitigate tail latencies, build automated performance benchmarking in CI/CD, and create modular entry points for model-serving and demand systems. Ensure operational excellence, resiliency, and cross-team collaboration to meet SLAs and uptime targets.

Lead technical direction for a cloud game: define architecture, hire and mentor engineering teams, oversee prototype-to-live ops execution, integrate Netflix cloud-gaming platform, manage external partners, perform deep engine-layer debugging and performance optimization, and continuously refine processes and pipelines.

Design, build, and operate highly reliable distributed storage services, APIs, and tooling at cloud scale. Engage with engineering users, solve large ambiguous problems incrementally, and improve platform observability, cost, and lifecycle management.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native, large-scale distributed data infrastructure (Spark, Presto/Trino, Druid, Iceberg). Improve performance, scalability, and reliability, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute to open-source projects.

Designs, builds, and maintains cloud-based integrations and data workflows using Python and Azure. Develops Azure Functions, internal SDKs for Brightree, Snowflake pipelines, and CI/CD. Uses AI tools to accelerate development, supports automation with Power Automate, troubleshoots production, and documents APIs and workflows.

Design and implement Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Work across frontend and backend, databases, and distributed systems; optimize performance and concurrency; architect scalable, highly available services; and develop/extend OMS and RMS functionality for trading/exchange systems.

Lead development and qualification of production PIC test capability, own tester qualification, drive test efficiency/capacity improvements, execute engineering change notices, participate in quality review boards, and collaborate with PIC design, fab, and module teams at the South San Francisco facility.

Design, build, test, and document client-side networking software for Tailscale's dataplane. Improve connectivity between clients, subnet routers, and exit nodes, optimize performance and reliability, resolve complex customer network escalations, collaborate with product and engineering, and engage with the open-source community.