Top Senior Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop and own full-stack web features from design through deployment, monitoring, and optimization. Build APIs, backend services, responsive user experiences, SQL queries, and relational database schemas. Modernize legacy systems, troubleshoot performance issues, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product and design teams in an agile continuous-delivery environment. The role emphasizes secure, maintainable, scalable code, technical ownership, and thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools.

Provides technical leadership for site reliability and operational development. Designs automated, repeatable cloud and infrastructure solutions; monitors service objectives and business metrics; improves application resiliency, performance, efficiency, and cost. Builds monitoring, deployment, testing, and vulnerability-response automation while supporting mission-critical production systems. Collaborates with software, security, product, and business teams, conducts technical training and resilience exercises, and promotes sound development, change-management, and operational practices.

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.

Manage and optimize high-bandwidth, low-latency VFX network infrastructure supporting render farms, storage, cloud rendering, artist collaboration, and remote workstations. Configure AWS Deadline Cloud, troubleshoot Maya and Arnold rendering, build asset-transfer and per-show environment systems, optimize Linux and Windows pipelines, and document architecture and procedures. The role requires strong Python and Bash scripting, networking, storage, systems administration, render-farm, and VFX pipeline expertise.

Architect and refine scalable cloud infrastructure software for enterprise and internet-scale environments. Responsibilities include developing robust software, designing systems supporting 1,000+ nodes, optimizing performance, and collaborating with distributed technical teams in agile environments.

Design, develop, and implement scalable software solutions and modern applications for consumer banking. Collaborate in an Agile environment, contribute to architectural and design decisions, build distributed service-based components, and incorporate scalability, manageability, and maintainability. The engineer will work across multiple initiatives, collaborate with teammates, mentor engineers, and help deliver consumer-facing products.

Own and modernize production infrastructure across DigitalOcean, AWS, Cloudflare, and Linux environments. Responsibilities include database migrations to managed services, managed application runtimes, Cloudflare security and delivery, infrastructure inventory, monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, incident response, runbooks, automation, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD. The role requires hands-on production troubleshooting, documentation, AI-assisted operations, risk management, and real on-call availability.

Develop distributed, production-grade microservice systems and scalable data-processing infrastructure on Linux. Lead service mesh, contract-first API, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers initiatives; design fault-tolerant architectures and observability systems; operate containerized distributed platforms; and mentor junior and mid-level engineers. The role also emphasizes AI-assisted development, technical communication, and documentation, with preferred experience in industrial automation, monorepos, real-time processing, edge computing, and infrastructure as code.

Administer AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Entra ID environments end to end. Manage cloud infrastructure, networking, virtual machines, identity, endpoints, automation, Terraform-based infrastructure, monitoring, security hardening, vulnerability remediation, compliance evidence, and AI platform administration. Build resilient and governed environments, automate operational workflows, maintain documentation, support incident response, and partner with engineering, security, and operations. The role requires US citizenship and work within the United States.

Owns end-to-end administration of AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Entra ID environments. Responsibilities include cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, endpoint management, Terraform-based infrastructure as code, automation, monitoring, security hardening, vulnerability remediation, compliance, AI platform administration, and audit-ready documentation. The role partners with engineering, security, and operations to deliver stable, secure, scalable, and well-documented services in a defense-sector compliance environment.

Leads the Bioinformatics Software Engineering team and owns engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, modernization, and production support for clinical genomics platforms. Oversees software engineers, bioinformatics workflows, data integration, automation, quality systems, release governance, reliability, and regulatory compliance. Partners with clinical, laboratory, scientific, quality, product, operations, and executive stakeholders to convert research methods into validated production workflows. Guides AI-enabled engineering initiatives while ensuring privacy, traceability, clinical-grade quality, and operational resilience.

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.

Define architecture and technical direction for Catalyst’s distributed data platform, including messaging, state management, reconciliation, streaming, storage, CI/CD, and Kubernetes operations. Build Go and Python frameworks, improve reliability and SLOs, lead incident response, maintain secure dependency and artifact delivery, and develop infrastructure automation. Collaborate across teams and with customers, review designs and code, establish engineering standards, and travel internationally up to 25% to support mission-critical deployments.

Own production operations and highly available cloud infrastructure for regulated government environments. Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery testing, compliance operationalization, audit readiness, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring. Build automation, secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and compliance tooling across Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and cloud platforms. Partner with security, compliance, and engineering teams to improve reliability, deployment safety, and regulatory sustainment.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will design and maintain infrastructure for AI Care applications, automate deployment processes, monitor performance, and lead incident responses while mentoring junior colleagues.

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.

Lead design and delivery of integrations platform features (SDKs, agents, pipelines). Improve integration authoring, reliability, scalability, observability, and developer tooling. Partner across product and customer teams, mentor engineers, and evaluate emerging technologies to scale integration development and agent-based workflows.

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services using Java and Python within a microservices architecture. Collaborate with architects, product owners, and infrastructure to deploy containerized applications, tune performance, implement CI/CD, and support production systems. Participate in code reviews, agile ceremonies, and technical design to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.

The Staff Engineer will lead the Systems team, design scalable cloud infrastructure, optimize data pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and security.

Build and maintain end-to-end web applications: design, code, test, debug, and deploy backend APIs and front-end components. Improve legacy systems, create reusable libraries, and support operations and clients while collaborating with product and customers.

As a Senior Implementation Engineer, you will design and implement DevSecOps and CI/CD solutions for enterprise customers, optimizing their Harness setups for efficiency and scalability while engaging with technical teams and leadership.

Lead design and delivery of self-service platform capabilities: provisioning, deployment, observability, and multi-region networking. Drive RFCs and cross-team alignment, build APIs (primarily in Go), implement Terraform/GitOps flows, improve EKS reliability and Grafana-based SLOs, and reduce operational toil via safe, auditable automation. Own on-call rotation and platform adoption outcomes.

Validate and improve Brave browser quality across desktop and mobile. Create and execute tests, reproduce and debug cross-platform issues, use packet monitoring tools, work in open-source/GitHub, and collaborate with developers and privacy/security teams to ensure secure, reliable releases including crypto wallet and AI-related features.

Lead design and delivery of end-to-end calibration systems for perception sensors and robot kinematics. Build algorithms, fixtures, on-fixture software, data pipelines, validation, operator workflows, and fleet monitoring. Own fixture software and in-field self-check/recalibration, define downstream manufacturing requirements, and coordinate with vendors and contract manufacturers. Hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent for calibration work.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will manage and scale LiveKit's core infrastructure, focusing on reliability and performance, while working on Golang code and automation for distributed systems.