Top Senior Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

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

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.

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.

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

Technical lead for Redfin's production database and storage systems: define strategy, architect and implement cloud database/storage (self-managed and AWS managed), ensure reliability, observability, scalability, security, participate in DR planning and on-call rotation, lead incident resolution and root cause analysis, mentor engineers, and evangelize AI code-generation and infrastructure-as-code best practices.

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.

Lead and mentor a DevOps team to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, IaC, container orchestration, monitoring, security controls, disaster recovery, and on-call support to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

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

Manage, maintain, and improve secure government cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure Gov/Azure GCC High, AWS GovCloud, GCP). Provide 24x7 operational support, incident/change management, advanced troubleshooting, compliance with FedRAMP/NIST/DISA/CIS standards, automation/IaC development, capacity and performance management, and technical guidance to improve architecture, security, and service delivery.

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 the Platform Firmware team at Samsara, driving hardware program execution, managing firmware engineers, and collaborating with various stakeholders for high-quality hardware delivery.

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

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.

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.

Operate at Staff-level to diagnose and resolve complex customer issues, contribute production-quality code to GitLab, drive AI adoption (Duo Agent Platform), and translate field learnings into durable product improvements, guidance, and thought leadership while coordinating cross-functional teams.

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.

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.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Design, analyze, and support robotic and electromechanical systems for automated pipe handling and drilling operations. Create mechanical designs, perform stress and tolerance analyses, develop test plans and fixtures, specify components, validate hardware/software, collaborate with vendors, enforce standards, and lead commissioning and acceptance testing at NOV and customer sites.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Hands-on role building and maintaining a firmwide front-office trading, investment, and analytics platform. Develop Python services and APIs, SQL-backed data workflows, cloud-native integrations, and visualization tools. Partner with commercial trading teams to optimize trading processes, support market data/positions analysis, and drive cloud-first development.

The Systems Software Expert leads project teams in developing software systems, providing technical expertise, and mentoring less-experienced staff while ensuring compliance with design standards.

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.