Top Ruby Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

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.

Design, build, operate, and scale GitLab Orbit backend services in Rust across distributed cloud-native environments. Improve Kubernetes deployments, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, incident readiness, multi-tenant isolation, data workflows, graph query capabilities, indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, and API/MCP surfaces. Own technical designs through rollout while collaborating asynchronously with infrastructure, security, AI, data, delivery, and SRE teams.

Build and maintain cloud-based development, build, testing, deployment, and production infrastructure. Own platform systems using Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD tools. Collaborate with engineers on a you-build-it-you-run-it platform, troubleshoot incidents, lead postmortems, address root causes, and automate improvements to enhance reliability, performance, and stability.

Lead Apollo’s Rep Experience engineering team building prospecting, account management, task orchestration, dashboards, and AI-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, architecture, planning, coding mentorship, hiring, people management, on-call sustainability, estimation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, GTM, and engineering leadership.

Build and operate reliable, scalable production infrastructure for GitLab’s user-facing services. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure automation and tooling, managing Kubernetes deployments, maintaining infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD and GitOps, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production systems, and documenting operational practices. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires strong software engineering, cloud, reliability, and asynchronous collaboration skills.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing, developing, testing, and releasing scalable full-stack features for Huntress’s Core Platform. The role owns complex projects end to end across frontend, backend, databases, and infrastructure; promotes code quality through testing, reviews, and pairing; breaks down epics into milestones; contributes technical solutions; and mentors engineers. The position requires extensive Ruby on Rails and full-stack experience, plus familiarity with Linux infrastructure, databases, external APIs, Agile practices, and responsible AI-assisted development.

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.

Build, test, ship, and operate production backend features with minimal guidance. Design APIs, background jobs, integrations, data models, migrations, and bounded services while maintaining security, performance, observability, and reliability. Review code, improve automated testing, investigate production issues, address technical debt, participate in operational support, and collaborate asynchronously with product, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams. Use AI coding tools responsibly by validating and correcting generated output.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

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.

Design, build, and own scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications across frontend, backend, and data layers. Improve system architecture, performance, reliability, and testing practices. Integrate AI-assisted tools, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, production-grade software.

Administers Linux servers and Proxmox VE infrastructure, including clusters, virtual machines, containers, storage, backups, monitoring, security, and disaster recovery. Automates administration with scripting and configuration management, troubleshoots infrastructure issues, maintains documentation, supports critical incidents, and collaborates with IT teams in an onsite manufacturing environment. Participates in on-call coverage and planned maintenance.

Build and optimize BizzyCar’s full-stack platform using Ruby on Rails APIs and Angular. Own features end to end, diagnose issues across UI, APIs, and data, guide architecture, mentor engineers, improve testing standards, and support multiple product domains including recalls, AI, and service systems.

Build and scale full-stack applications using Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Design APIs, data architectures, synchronization systems, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for secure, reliable operation in disconnected and low-bandwidth environments. Collaborate across engineering, business development, and mission teams while supporting critical defense and public safety operations.

Build and scale reliable software systems supporting donor platforms, cash payments, and rapid-response programs. Own features end to end from architecture through deployment and monitoring, improve CI/CD and testing, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, operations, and data teams. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps and sustainable engineering practices in a mission-driven, fully remote organization.

Lead design, development, and modernization of enterprise Ruby/Rails backend systems. Architect REST and GraphQL APIs, build cloud-native apps (AWS/Azure), drive CI/CD and DevSecOps, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and establish secure, scalable engineering practices across the full software lifecycle.

Build and operate AWS GovCloud data infrastructure across development, preproduction, and production environments. Establish PostgreSQL platforms, infrastructure-as-code with Chef, BI infrastructure, identity integrations, monitoring, observability, CI/CD, and disaster recovery. Support data pipelines, troubleshoot incidents, optimize databases, and ensure FedRAMP and FISMA compliance. Collaborate with security, compliance, DevOps, and data engineering teams while delivering greenfield infrastructure from architecture through production.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Lead the creation of EasyLlama’s Platform Engineering function and technical roadmap. Build and operate scalable Ruby on Rails services, Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, AI and LLM infrastructure, billing systems, enterprise integrations, and observability platforms. Drive security, reliability, scalability, and architectural decisions across engineering teams while mentoring engineers and resolving complex production issues.

Define and evolve architecture for the OnitX AppBuilder Platform, ensuring scalability, performance, resiliency, security, and privacy. Establish engineering standards, lead design reviews, promote microservices and event-driven patterns, and provide technical leadership across teams. Mentor engineers, collaborate with DevOps and SRE, guide AI integration and automation, and improve development velocity and system performance.

Develop and maintain Java-based product features for a real-time, scalable SaaS platform. Responsibilities include fixing bugs, deploying and upgrading products in Azure customer environments, monitoring and troubleshooting deployments, improving alerting, automating repetitive tasks, and investigating operational issues. Collaborate with developers, DevOps, support, and infrastructure teams, occasionally assisting end users with troubleshooting.

Drive technical direction and architecture across teams for enterprise retail software. Improve platform reliability and performance, scope customer-facing features, mentor engineers, de-risk large work, and embed AI-native practices (LLMs/agents) into engineering workflows.

Build and scale full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, infrastructure, and user experiences supporting millions of users. Design reliable, high-performance systems; partner with Product, Design, and Data; own projects through deployment and optimization; improve observability and developer productivity; and support AI adoption through automation and AI-powered workflows.