Top Senior Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead back-end engineer responsible for designing, developing, and troubleshooting high-performance, latency-sensitive Java services. Drive adoption and safe validation of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices, evaluate technical vendors, lead cross-team communities of practice, and promote secure, reusable patterns across distributed, cloud-native microservice architectures.

Lead design, development, testing, and production support for equities order management systems. Define architecture, build low-latency Java/J2EE services, REST APIs and event-driven messaging (JMS), ensure CI/CD, TDD, resiliency and security, collaborate globally, engage stakeholders, mentor engineers, and drive adoption of firmwide tools and best practices.

Lead and support reliability, performance, and operational integrity of equities electronic trading systems. Provide hands-on DevOps/SRE production support for FIX connectivity, Linux troubleshooting, Grafana observability, Kafka on AWS, incident triage, root cause analysis, automation via Python and Bash, and cross-team collaboration including investigating C++ components.

Lead the design, operation, and resilience of block/file/object storage across on-prem and cloud. Drive incident response, performance tuning, capacity planning, automation, SLO/SLI ownership, observability/AIOps implementation, runbooks, backups/DR, and cross-team collaboration to meet reliability targets.

Lead design and implementation of automated, secure, scalable database platform services. Build backend services, APIs, self-service tooling, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines; drive automation, code quality, and technical leadership across global teams.

Lead and grow a team of autonomy engineers to stand up autonomy on novel platforms (space, maritime, rotorcraft), own delivery from design through fielding, write and integrate latency-sensitive autonomy code, coordinate with platform and cross-functional teams, support live tests and deployments, and evolve R&D efforts into longer-term programs.

Lead and grow a small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure software (primarily in Go) to manage VMs across global data centers. Collaborate on product requirements, participate in code reviews, optimize performance and reliability, contribute to architecture decisions, and stay current with industry trends.

Lead and grow a distributed datacenter storage engineering team owning end-to-end storage from NAND/NVMe to filesystems. Design and operate SAN, NFS, and parallel filesystems (VAST, Lustre), optimize performance (RDMA, GDS), ensure reliability, automation, observability, and collaborate with networking, GPU platform, SRE, and product teams.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for owning and supporting the MCA international cash management platform. Duties include COBOL development, mainframe application support, Oracle Database and Linux administration, monitoring with Dynatrace, incident and change management via ServiceNow, vendor coordination (including Oracle Flexcube), troubleshooting production issues, delivering enhancements, and participating in Agile delivery to ensure platform reliability and regulatory compliance.

The Senior Solutions Engineer leads technical sales cycles, designs enterprise storage solutions, and partners with sales to drive customer outcomes and revenue growth.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms at massive scale. Ensure high reliability, integrate open-source observability tools, provide technical direction, operate large Linux environments across cloud and data centers, handle on-call duties, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead SRE efforts for DFIN SaaS: ensure availability, performance, scalability, and automation. Implement monitoring, CI/CD, IaC, container orchestration, AI-enhanced observability, incident response, RCA, and runbook automation while collaborating across engineering teams.

Operate and automate large-scale data plane services (Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, etc.), build infrastructure for a devops model, troubleshoot production incidents, and ensure petabyte-scale data is secure, available, and efficiently managed.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will improve system reliability and efficiency, develop standards and tooling, and collaborate with engineering teams to optimize workflows and cloud infrastructure.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will develop and support distributed storage services, ensuring reliability and operational safety, with a focus on automation and efficiency.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Manage a high-performing software engineering team, driving product roadmap and technical direction, while ensuring quality, performance, and innovation.

The Data Center Engineer will manage physical servers and network hardware, ensuring their installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting, along with overseeing documentation and vendor coordination.

Lead development of AI-assisted reliability tooling, own incident response end-to-end, improve observability and SLO/SLI frameworks, scale single-tenant SaaS operations, mentor engineers, and reduce recurring operational toil through engineering and automation.

Ensure stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed AI platform by defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, building observability and reliability tooling, automating operational workflows, and partnering with engineering teams to reduce toil and improve production readiness.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

The Build & Release Engineer will manage build and release processes using TFS, Splunk, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible in Linux and Windows environments.

Responsible for designing and developing firmware and flight software for spacecraft systems, collaborating with engineering teams on robust, reliable software under strict constraints.