Top Ruby Jobs in Houston, TX

Build scalable software and infrastructure for quantitative investment and trading systems. Responsibilities may include distributed storage, cloud environments, mission-critical reliability, model testing and deployment, low-latency trade execution, large-scale data ingestion, and internal productivity tools. Candidates should have a technical or quantitative degree, strong programming skills, large-scale systems experience, analytical ability, and passion for quality software.

Build and operate GitLab’s Rust-based Knowledge Graph backend supporting SDLC and code indexing, graph queries, MCP endpoints, AI agents, and analytics. Integrate with Rails, ClickHouse, NATS JetStream, and Data Insights systems. Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and operational readiness through testing, metrics, runbooks, alerts, and on-call participation. Collaborate asynchronously across product, data, infrastructure, security, and AI teams while contributing to system design and occasional Ruby or frontend work.

Principal Engineer responsible for defining the long-term architecture and modernization strategy for GitLab’s Fulfillment platform. The role drives technical direction across entitlements, licensing, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management. Responsibilities include hands-on distributed systems engineering, migrations, performance and reliability improvements, cross-team influence, AI-assisted engineering adoption, and mentoring senior technical staff.

Build and ship backend features end-to-end using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Lead complex technical projects, solve architecture challenges, establish standards, conduct meaningful code reviews, resolve high-risk bugs, document systems, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Build and maintain authentication and fine-grained authorization systems using Auth0 and OpenFGA. Own OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect implementations, identity federation, token flows, and permissions for AI agents. Lead cross-team technical projects, set engineering standards, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend development skills and experience with identity providers, ReBAC systems, and complex multi-tenant authorization models.

Develops, tests, documents, supports, and improves software systems with a primary focus on Sitecore and modern web applications. Designs responsive interfaces, integrations, APIs, automations, and CMS solutions while supporting CI/CD, Agile, testing, monitoring, security, and performance standards. Troubleshoots incidents, manages technical debt, collaborates with project and business teams, documents solutions, and provides stakeholder support. Requires strong web technologies, databases, operating systems, enterprise integration, and software development experience.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading and developing a team of engineers while balancing technical leadership, execution, and people management. The role involves improving productivity and reliability, shaping technical roadmaps with product and design partners, setting team objectives, leading hiring and retention, and delivering complex web applications and services. The manager will also mentor engineers, support career growth, and make strategic decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Build scalable, efficient full-stack systems that support healthcare professionals and improve patient outcomes. Collaborate with developers, data scientists, healthcare professionals, product managers, and operations teams to develop features, maintain development practices, write tests, document implementations, and refactor complex distributed systems.

Build scalable, efficient full-stack systems that support healthcare professionals and improve patient outcomes. Collaborate with developers, data scientists, clinicians, product managers, and operational teams to create new features, maintain development practices, write tests, document implementations, and refactor complex distributed systems.

Leads and develops engineering teams in a player/coach role, balancing technical leadership, execution, and people management. Responsibilities include improving team productivity and reliability, shaping technical roadmaps with product and design partners, setting objectives, representing the team in engineering initiatives, and leading hiring, development, and retention. The role requires system design expertise, proficiency in a general-purpose programming language, experience delivering complex web applications and services, and adaptability across technical systems.

Develop and maintain backend services and APIs for LabArchives ELN, inventory, and scheduler products. Build primarily with Node.js while contributing to Ruby on Rails code, database development, testing automation, security reviews, and performance evaluations. Collaborate with product, operations, support, and frontend teams to plan, develop, test, and release scalable features. The role requires strong backend and database expertise, API design knowledge, and cross-functional communication.

DevOps Engineer responsible for operating, maintaining, and optimizing cloud platforms and production infrastructure. The role manages CI/CD pipelines, improves system reliability and security, maintains containerized infrastructure, and enhances monitoring and logging. Required expertise includes AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Ruby, Kubernetes-related platforms, security tools, and cloud infrastructure. The position is fully remote but requires U.S. citizenship and an active Public Trust clearance or higher.

Build and operate an agentic SOC investigation platform using LLMs, including telemetry tools, investigation workflows, evidence-backed outputs, evaluation systems, and analyst productivity features. Develop secure, reliable, observable backend services that handle attacker-influenced data across customer environments. Collaborate with SOC analysts, researchers, technical leads, and product managers to translate investigative expertise into production agent behavior.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Build and independently deliver complex software features using Ruby on Rails and React. Own technical solutions, clarify requirements, contribute to system design, and support deployments and production operations. Optimize performance, reliability, security, and scalability while maintaining databases, AWS infrastructure, web servers, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines. Implement SSO integrations and compliance requirements, troubleshoot Linux environments, evaluate technologies, and mentor less experienced engineers.

Build and own Bota’s full-stack AI hardware platform, including backend services, APIs, data models, frontend interfaces, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, testing, security, and observability. The founding engineer will make end-to-end technical decisions, collaborate with product, design, and customers, mentor future engineers, improve system performance and reliability, and help shape engineering culture and long-term technology strategy.

Designs and maintains Boomi integrations for high-volume logistics workflows and B2B data exchanges. Builds APIs, connectors, event-driven Kafka integrations, error-handling frameworks, and automated CI/CD workflows. Leads integration projects from requirements through deployment and support, contributes to enterprise architecture, and mentors junior developers. Requires expertise in logistics systems, REST/SOAP, EDI, SQL, scripting, Agile delivery, and integration monitoring.

The Senior SDET develops and maintains regression automation, performs manual and automated testing across smoke, integration, performance, and regression scenarios, and documents defects and test results. The role collaborates with product and customer-facing teams throughout the SDLC, contributes to planning and quality processes, maintains GitHub automation repositories, identifies quality risks, and participates in on-call support.

Lead the technical direction of Carrum Health’s billing and payments platform. Centralize pricing, define billing service boundaries and data models, and build reliable systems for invoicing, provider payments, and financial reporting. Partner with Product, Finance, Operations, and Data on cross-team initiatives, write architectural documentation, mentor engineers, and ensure financial correctness, observability, auditability, and safe rollbacks. Work primarily with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS in a remote-first startup environment.

Architects scalable distributed systems and low-level cloud platform services, establishes engineering standards and SLOs, designs CI/CD and deployment safety pipelines, leads complex incident escalations and postmortems, and mentors engineering teams. The role requires full-stack, API, and microservices development in Linux or Unix environments, strong SRE expertise, architectural leadership, and US citizenship with eligibility for security clearance.

Lead the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s data products, including near-real-time data ingestion, knowledge graph integrations, data marketplaces, observability, and data-sharing APIs. Translate ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives into roadmaps, resolve cross-team dependencies, ensure operational readiness across deployment surfaces, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep full-stack expertise, technical leadership, and experience with AI-powered orchestration and multi-tenant SaaS systems.

Lead client implementations and integrations for fraud and compliance products. Translate technical and business requirements into scalable solutions, manage onboarding and implementation projects, own API and SDK documentation, analyze SQL and JSON payloads, mitigate delivery risks, support clients, and provide product feedback to internal teams.

Leads and develops backend software engineering managers and technical teams, establishes development metrics and delivery processes, and drives high-quality product releases. Partners with design and business teams on customer-centered experiences, facilitates cross-functional planning, mentors employees, improves engineering practices, and supports long-term organizational and product goals.

Develop and maintain Ruby on Rails backend systems supporting solar development, value evaluation, and loan servicing. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, solving complex domain problems, collaborating with Product and company experts, shaping architecture and technical direction, and improving engineering processes as the company scales.

Lead a new product pod from concept to market while remaining hands-on in Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, and Azure. Set technical direction, design architecture, write production code, instrument the member funnel, and deliver secure, scalable software. Hire and coach senior engineers, manage delivery and incidents, collaborate across product and business teams, and build HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant systems in a regulated healthcare environment.