Top Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

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.

Architect and lead RapidFort’s scalable build platform for producing hardened container images. Responsibilities include designing distributed build systems, automating image creation and validation, improving reliability and performance, solving Linux and container infrastructure challenges, establishing software supply chain standards, influencing cross-team architecture, and mentoring engineers. The role requires deep expertise in Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Bash, CI/CD, distributed systems, and build automation.

Designs, develops, deploys, and operates scalable Go and Python microservices in distributed production environments. Responsibilities include API design, Kubernetes deployment, monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting incidents, system architecture, security, testing, code reviews, and continuous improvements to development processes and infrastructure. The role requires end-to-end service ownership, strong Linux and Docker expertise, observability knowledge, and experience with reliability, performance, and CI/CD practices.

Operate and improve AWS production infrastructure, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes workloads, observability, CI/CD, and incident response. The role investigates root causes, strengthens application resilience, automates operational tasks, supports database and performance reliability, maintains documentation, and participates in 24/7 on-call rotations. The engineer owns scoped reliability projects and collaborates with product engineering teams on resilient, secure, and compliant systems.

Leads the design, development, integration, modernization, automation, and optimization of complex enterprise healthcare applications. Architects data pipelines and interfaces, manages upgrades and performance tuning, partners with architecture and security teams, establishes technical standards, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in healthcare interoperability, enterprise application architecture, scripting, deployment pipelines, security, scalability, and regulatory compliance.

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.

Administer and troubleshoot SLES, Ubuntu, and Windows servers supporting business-critical and development activities. Responsibilities include system maintenance, performance monitoring, security implementation, virtualization, AD/Samba and NFS interoperability, package installation, incident resolution, vendor coordination, documentation, training, and upgrade planning. The role provides technical guidance to developers and administrators and may require night or weekend project participation.

Conduct automated and manual testing of rugged computer systems, including hardware, software, operating systems, BIOS/UEFI, networks, and peripherals. Diagnose board- and component-level issues using schematics and electronic measurement tools, analyze performance data, document defects in JIRA, verify compliance with specifications and military requirements, and collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams on root-cause analysis and corrective actions.

Diagnoses, repairs, configures, calibrates, and validates self-driving system hardware and software on autonomous vehicles. The role troubleshoots sensors, compute systems, connectivity, wiring, and vehicle networks; performs updates and calibration; documents findings; and confirms technical readiness before vehicles return to testing or robotaxi operations. The specialist collaborates with technicians, engineering, safety, depot, and fleet operations teams while following strict safety, quality, and documentation procedures.

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.

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 design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

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.

Leads an engineering team developing, maintaining, testing, and optimizing custom Linux kernel infrastructure at planetary scale. Responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, vulnerability management, hardware support, low-level debugging, reliability and security strategy, mentoring, quality standards, and collaboration with technical teams and open-source communities. The role also requires hands-on technical contributions when needed.

Develop and support operational processes, documentation, requirements, system integration, deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment for fielded mission systems. Collaborate with developers, engineers, mission stakeholders, internal teams, and external partners to maintain system functionality, interoperability, and delivery across distributed mission environments.

Leads complex network and infrastructure solution development from customer requirements through architecture, implementation, deployment, operations, and sustainment. Provides technical leadership, customer engagement, proposal support, solution presentations, team coordination, mentoring, risk management, and delivery accountability across enterprise, tactical, government, and commercial environments. Integrates networking, software, automation, cloud, cybersecurity, service management, and observability technologies while supporting classified and sensitive programs.

Serves as the strategic architect and technical lead for enterprise observability, APM, telemetry, and SRE ecosystems. Designs unified monitoring across hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and legacy environments; establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident-response practices; leads automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and GitOps; and develops secure, scalable telemetry pipelines. The role also leads FOAK implementations, monitoring migrations, vendor transitions, knowledge-transfer programs, major incident escalations, operational handoffs, and engineering-team mentoring.

Build and maintain a React/TypeScript operations portal and Supabase/PostgreSQL backend for autonomous aircraft medical logistics. Improve aircraft allocation, mission generation, telemetry ingestion, live dashboards, reliability, testing, logging, and observability. Integrate Python services with ArduPilot aircraft and simulations while collaborating with autonomy and simulation engineers to mature real-flight and digital-twin systems.

Own infrastructure, deployment, operational tooling, observability, deploy safety, and incident response for latency-sensitive institutional trading systems across cloud and colocated environments. Improve reliability, performance, and developer velocity; reduce single points of failure; establish operational standards and automation; partner with engineering, product, markets, and SRE; and mentor engineers in a 24/7 production environment.

Design, deploy, enhance, and support secure custom government network platforms and cloud services. Manage CI/CD pipelines, build systems, testing frameworks, distributed databases, and storage ecosystems. Lead technical initiatives, code reviews, security patching, Agile SDLC releases, and system performance improvements. Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and SRE teams to troubleshoot complex issues and deliver resilient application delivery networks.

Serve as the senior technical contact for OEM Federal deployments of NVIDIA GPU-accelerated platforms. Own customer issues end to end, including troubleshooting, failure analysis, RMA procedures, root-cause investigation, and coordination with OEM support and NVIDIA engineering. Support secure Federal environments such as FedRAMP, IL5/IL6, and air-gapped SCIF facilities while maintaining sanitization and chain-of-custody requirements. Analyze multi-GPU systems, firmware, operating systems, networking, storage, and distributed workloads, with up to 35% travel.

Build and maintain enterprise web applications, APIs, and containerized microservices using Python and Django. Develop workflow engines, financial validation logic, relational database schemas, asynchronous integrations, role-based access controls, and CI/CD automation. Support complementary applications across multiple technology stacks while maintaining secure, auditable, and reliable systems.

Architects, implements, verifies, and integrates high-performance FPGA networking solutions for space-based electronic systems. Designs Ethernet datapaths, packet switching fabrics, routing and queuing logic, protocol offload functions, and high-speed interfaces using AMD Xilinx technologies. Performs RTL coding, simulation, timing closure, board bring-up, system debugging, and documentation. Collaborates with hardware and software teams, supports laboratory validation, and mentors junior engineers serving DoD, intelligence, and civil space customers.

Develop and maintain Java enterprise applications using Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, Oracle, and MongoDB. Design scalable systems, conduct testing, remediate vulnerabilities, troubleshoot distributed environments, participate in code reviews, document solutions, and mentor junior developers. The role also involves Linux, Git, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud platforms such as OCI or AWS. An active Public Trust clearance and cybersecurity certification are required.