Top Ruby Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Own QA strategy and release quality for POS, back-office, and payments products. Build automated unit, integration, API, contract, and end-to-end tests; integrate testing into GitHub Actions; validate hardware, offline modes, payment flows, and upgrades; establish release gates and test environments; monitor quality metrics; reproduce merchant issues; and coach engineers on testable design and quality practices.

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.

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 the technical vision and architectural evolution of Huntress’s Core Platform. Build complex Ruby on Rails features, solve scaling challenges, manage cross-team dependencies, drive architectural decisions, and oversee system lifecycle and technical risk. Mentor engineers, establish engineering excellence, collaborate with managers and product leaders, and help teams adopt AI coding tools responsibly.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

The Staff Quality Engineer will establish testing strategy, expand scalable end-to-end automation, close coverage gaps, and define quality metrics and release gates. They will test AI-powered features, collaborate with developers on test planning, use AI tools for testing and triage, and coach engineering teams on quality-by-design practices. The role requires influencing multiple teams independently without a dedicated QE team or manager.

Provide technical leadership for site reliability engineering, applying software engineering practices to large-scale operations. Design automated, repeatable operational solutions; monitor service objectives, application performance, and business metrics; improve resiliency, efficiency, and cost. Support cloud and on-premise infrastructure, production applications, deployment automation, testing, and vulnerability response. Partner with software development, security, and business teams while promoting Agile practices, change management, training, and operational health.

Build and operate high-throughput distributed systems for Yahoo Mail’s anti-spam protection and message delivery infrastructure. Responsibilities include writing, testing, deploying, debugging, and performance-tuning backend services; designing reliable components; using AI-assisted development tools; reviewing code; and making independent technical decisions. The role requires expertise in Java, Go, or C++, cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, machine learning, and scalable distributed systems.

Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Ruby on Rails. Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and write well-tested production code. Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data Engineering, and QA teams.

Leads architects and defines enterprise architecture strategy across consumer banking platforms. Provides technical direction, mentorship, and oversight; aligns technology solutions with business objectives; presents to architecture boards and executives; and drives product, solution, modernization, cloud, integration, resilience, and investment strategies across the organization.

Designs, operates, and improves production database systems across MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Google Cloud Platform. Responsibilities include performance tuning, backup and recovery, replication, upgrades, schema changes, capacity planning, data integrity, disaster recovery, and database security. The role partners with engineering and data teams, automates operational work using scripting, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD, and participates in a scheduled 24x7 on-call rotation.

Designs, implements, troubleshoots, and leads customer data center and SDN networking projects. Develops architectures across cloud, data center, collaboration, and campus networks; configures routing, switching, virtualization, security, load balancing, and WAN solutions; creates technical documentation; leads technical discussions, peer reviews, implementations, and customer engagements. Requires strong Cisco networking expertise, automation familiarity, consulting ability, and technical leadership.

Build AI-powered tools, scalable services, APIs, automations, and community experiences for Brilliant Black Minds. Lead projects independently from design through release, integrate LLM capabilities, and manage community operations including Discord moderation, member engagement, and study groups. Serve as the program’s sole engineer while translating community needs into reliable technical solutions.

Define and lead quality strategy for company reference data systems. Build automated testing across data pipelines, APIs, events, and end-to-end workflows; establish golden datasets, quality metrics, release gates, and regression coverage. Validate matching accuracy, data lifecycle risks, and production signals. Partner with developers and leaders, apply AI to testing, and coach engineers to improve quality across teams.

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.

Develop and maintain scalable full-stack web applications across front-end and back-end systems. Build APIs, manage databases, implement security practices, troubleshoot issues, participate in code reviews, document disaster and succession plans, and collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers. The role also involves testing, technical documentation, and evaluating emerging technologies to improve product development.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop backend systems and APIs, mentor other engineers, and resolve complex integration challenges in healthcare technology.

Build and operate full-stack features across database, API, and front-end layers using Ruby on Rails. Own complex problems end to end, modernize legacy systems, design durable APIs, improve reliability and developer productivity, and participate in production support. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, document technical decisions, mentor peers, and contribute to architecture, code reviews, and on-call operations. The role also involves using modern developer tooling and working on scalable fleet and service-management software.

Manage and optimize multiple platforms, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, containers, monitoring, logging, and security tools. Improve system reliability, troubleshoot degraded services and system-level issues, maintain production infrastructure, and enhance internal processes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, document solutions, and support client-facing delivery in a remote federal-contract environment.

Build, monitor, and scale resilient cloud infrastructure across multi-region and multi-cloud environments. Develop Kubernetes controllers and infrastructure tools using Go, Python, Ruby, and Terraform; maintain Datadog observability; diagnose complex production performance and reliability issues; automate failover and capacity management; and collaborate with engineering teams on architecture and infrastructure improvements.

Principal Engineer responsible for owning complex software initiatives from problem framing through architecture, implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. The role involves building web applications, services, APIs, MCP servers, data pipelines, and platform integrations; leading architecture and code reviews; improving security, reliability, and maintainability; mentoring engineers; and shaping technical strategy. The engineer will also use and improve AI-assisted development practices while maintaining human accountability for quality and operational outcomes.