Top Senior Ruby Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leads architecture, design, and hands-on development for scalable backend APIs and interoperability services. Sets engineering standards, drives cross-team technical initiatives, mentors engineers, reviews code and designs, manages technical risks, and partners with engineering leadership on roadmaps. The role focuses on distributed systems, authentication, cloud SaaS, API integrations, and standards such as FHIR, while contributing production code and fostering collaboration.

Build and scale Ruby on Rails backend systems powering StackBlitz and Bolt.new. Responsibilities include improving application scalability, reliability, and performance; optimizing PostgreSQL and object storage; developing platform features and integrations; supporting developer infrastructure; and reviewing code. The role works across Rails and Node.js/TypeScript stacks in a globally distributed, remote team.

Designs and leads scalable, secure infrastructure across AWS multi-region environments. Responsibilities include Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, observability, reliability engineering, performance and cost optimization, incident response, infrastructure security, AI-enhanced workflows, and mentoring. The role requires improving established systems while building new platform components and supporting reliable application delivery.

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.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

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 two infrastructure and engineering systems squads, owning roadmap, prioritization, delivery, operational health, hiring, mentoring, and vendor budgets. Ships production code, manages on-call performance, oversees audits and automation, and partners across engineering and business functions. Requires substantial software engineering and people-management experience, hands-on production development across cloud or application technologies, strong CI/CD and observability knowledge, security awareness, and experience directing AI agents in production workflows.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate reusable enterprise integrations using Workato and modern APIs. Partner with engineering teams, define data flows and security models, create custom connectors and integration templates, and ensure production observability, testing, documentation, and support. Translate partner needs into product requirements, support sales proofs of concept, evaluate agent integration patterns, and use AI coding tools while validating security, correctness, and maintainability.

Lead customer migrations from self-managed GitLab to GitLab Dedicated using GitLab Geo. Plan replication, cutovers, network connectivity, and post-migration validation while debugging synchronization issues. Build repeatable automation, runbooks, and infrastructure validation using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Manage multiple customer engagements, advise stakeholders, communicate technical plans, and collaborate with Professional Services, Product, and Engineering teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and maintain systems, mentor team members, and improve both code quality and team practices.

Build and maintain backend computation engines for solar and electrical design. Develop simulation and optimization systems for PV and battery storage layouts, component selection, and electrical configuration. Translate physical models into reliable, scalable software, shape computation infrastructure, write tested code, mentor teammates, collaborate cross-functionally, and own services through production and on-call support.

Leads development of scalable backend systems and applications for the Mindbody ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing APIs and microservices, owning complex technical projects, collaborating with Product, Design, and QA, promoting engineering best practices, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews and interviews, and leading incident postmortems. The role requires strong software architecture experience, large-scale SaaS development, cloud and database expertise, and effective cross-functional leadership.

Design, build, and maintain People systems automations and integrations (Workato, Workday, Greenhouse, Slack) using production-quality code. Improve CI/CD, reliability, observability, and AI-driven automation (Claude, MCP). Serve as technical lead for People Technology, partner with stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable automation solutions.

Develop and maintain automated testing tools and frameworks for complex healthcare software. Create test plans, execute white-box, black-box, UI, API, and performance testing, identify defects and testing gaps, improve CI/CD processes, and collaborate with product managers and developers to support high-quality releases. The role also involves debugging code, participating in demos, and working with distributed teams in a remote environment.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend services, APIs, databases, data flows, and infrastructure. Leads complex features from design through deployment while improving performance, observability, security, testing, and reliability. Integrates third-party platforms, supports cloud infrastructure and CI/CD practices, and mentors engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

Designs and implements scalable software architecture and web-based systems using Java EE and related technologies. Responsibilities include developing front-end and backend functionality, evaluating tools and designs, troubleshooting, conducting root-cause analysis, collaborating with QA and project teams, participating in code reviews, documenting solutions, mentoring engineers, and serving as a technical lead across multiple projects.

Design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable backend applications across the full software development lifecycle. Collaborate with product, UX, nutrition, vendors, and business stakeholders to define solutions and interfaces. Solve complex architectural problems, refactor code, mentor engineers, communicate technical direction, and develop distributed systems using cloud, big-data, and backend technologies.

The role involves ensuring software reliability and performance, managing incidents, developing infrastructure automation, and mentoring junior engineers within a platform team.