Top C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Join Azure PostgreSQL to design, implement, and test features in a relational database engine (query processing, logging, storage, IO, scale-out). Collaborate with stakeholders, write maintainable code, define test plans, operate live services (on-call), and contribute to open-source PostgreSQL and Linux.

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.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

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 build unified testing frameworks enabling portability across SIL, HIL, and simulation. Configure and maintain physical HIL benches and hardware interfaces, integrate automated HIL tests into CI pipelines, collaborate with software teams to improve HIL/CI systems, and monitor runtime performance, system health, and reliability metrics across testing platforms.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

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 and develop backend compute services, APIs, orchestration tools, and virtualization infrastructure for ARM64 and x86_64 cloud instances. Improve platform performance, scalability, reliability, and feature sets while integrating ARM server hardware. Troubleshoot complex low-level distributed Linux systems, collaborate across teams, and support the full software development lifecycle.

Lead UI engineering for a new game franchise by building production-quality UI systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Manage and mentor UI engineers, provide technical guidance across gameplay disciplines, and collaborate with design and cross-functional teams to deliver responsive player experiences. Responsibilities include HUDs, menus, fonts, localization workflows, and developer tools.

Designs, develops, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Writes high-quality code, leads design and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable architectures, leads sprint delivery, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in programming, databases, APIs, messaging, microservices, containerization, DevSecOps, and technical strategy.

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.

The role involves architecting and operating NVIDIA's cloud-native attestation platform, developing high-availability services, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Software Engineer Intern contributing to SingleStore’s distributed SQL database. Responsibilities include developing and testing database features, query processing, storage engines, indexing, distributed systems, concurrency, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance. The role involves code reviews, technical design, debugging, documentation, and collaboration with engineering and product teams.

Develop and operate production-quality cloud software for managing customer workspaces and databases. Responsibilities include building backend services, APIs, automation, provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backups, recovery, observability, and reliability improvements. The role involves writing code, tests, documentation, and technical designs; investigating performance and scalability issues; and collaborating with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams.

Develop and improve SingleStore database engine software, including query execution, optimization, storage, indexing, transactions, and distributed-system components. Write production code, tests, documentation, and technical designs while investigating performance, scalability, and correctness issues. Collaborate with experienced engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams through regular release cycles.

Designs and maintains secure Linux OS components for hardened container images and cloud-native workloads. Responsibilities include remediating CVEs, patching and rebuilding packages across Linux distributions, hardening container images, managing SBOMs and software provenance, and automating reproducible OS build and CI/CD pipelines. The role requires deep Linux systems, package management, dependency, container runtime, and supply chain security expertise, along with cross-functional collaboration to deliver stable, secure OS baselines.

Develop and maintain ChartCheck, a full-stack application supporting radiotherapy plan checking and clinical workflows. Responsibilities include building performant WPF desktop software, DICOM integrations, image and dose visualization, DVH evaluation, architecture, testing, code reviews, and technical decision-making. The role collaborates with physicists and product leaders, mentors teammates, and requires front-end and back-end development across C#, .NET, JavaScript, databases, and cloud systems.

Conduct HPC and scientific application benchmarking, optimize performance on HPE systems, analyze bottlenecks across compute, memory, accelerators, interconnects, MPI, and I/O, and provide technical guidance to sales, marketing, development, and customers. The role requires expertise in Linux-based HPC environments, parallel programming, performance analysis, GPU technologies, storage systems, and large-scale application scaling.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Systems Engineering Interns develop analog and digital chip systems from concept through production, define requirements and specifications, create algorithms and reference models, evaluate hardware and software, troubleshoot system issues, and document development activities. The role involves collaboration with TI business units, customers, and design teams to establish product roadmaps and resolve design tradeoffs.

Supports semiconductor systems engineering from concept through mass production. Responsibilities include developing analog and digital chip and system products, defining specifications, evaluating hardware and software solutions, troubleshooting systems, analyzing end-equipment trends, and collaborating with customers, business units, and engineering teams on product roadmaps and tradeoffs.

Designs and optimizes aerodynamic flowpaths for turboexpanders, centrifugal compressors, and related turbomachinery. Performs CFD, 1D, 2D, and 3D analyses, performance predictions, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis. Develops engineering tools and collaborates across design, simulation, manufacturing, proposals, and process engineering teams to improve equipment efficiency, reliability, and competitiveness.

Partners with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver Salesforce and SiteTracker solutions. Configures platform objects, workflows, permissions, automation, and integrations; develops Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, and SOQL solutions. Supports solution design, testing, deployment, production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and continuous platform improvement while collaborating with Business, QA, and Development teams.