Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Own and evolve cloud infrastructure, internal developer tooling, release automation, preview environments, and reliability practices. Build reusable libraries and SDKs, improve monitoring and tracing, manage SLOs and incident response, and solve scaling challenges across data and compute systems. The role requires strong AWS, Terraform or Pulumi, TypeScript and Node.js knowledge, startup infrastructure experience, and clear technical documentation.

Build scalable Golang microservices, APIs, and data-centric systems supporting eligibility, coverage, billing, client workflows, and healthcare operations. Automate manual processes, develop self-service tools, ensure data accuracy and traceability, and collaborate with data and AI teams on validation, automation, and anomaly detection. The role requires production backend experience, event-based architectures, cloud platforms, and strong stakeholder communication.

Build and maintain an internal application framework with authentication, hosting, CI/CD, observability, and alerting defaults. Develop custom tools such as Slack bots, web applications, and workflows for business teams. Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, integrate SaaS products and APIs, and own projects from scoping through adoption. Partner with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders while applying AI-assisted development and automation.

Design and operate production infrastructure for AI agent systems, including high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution. Build scalable distributed systems, MLOps capabilities, observability, guardrails, and failure recovery for millions of users. Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost while partnering with agent systems and infrastructure teams to harden experimental prototypes for production.

Develop and support Salesforce Service Cloud and enterprise integrations using Apex, LWC, Flows, APIs, and platform events. Lead complex technical implementations, testing, deployments, production issue resolution, and SDLC activities in an Agile environment. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, ensure Salesforce best practices and security, mentor junior developers, document standards, and improve operational efficiency through automation and AI-enabled capabilities.

Leads architecture, development, and deployment of scalable cloud-native backend platforms integrating AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, and Salesforce. Designs distributed services, APIs, data migration pipelines, and enterprise integrations while driving observability, resilience, security, and performance. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, influences architecture, and collaborates with product, business, and AI/ML teams to deliver highly available enterprise systems.

Design, develop, test, and extend NVIDIA’s large-scale object storage platform. Responsibilities include improving availability, reliability, durability, fault tolerance, and performance across deployments exceeding 10,000 nodes and exabytes of data. The role also automates storage infrastructure provisioning, management, and monitoring; supports AI/ML research teams; owns product delivery through support; and contributes to open-source storage projects.

Design, develop, deploy, and operate cloud-scale Azure regional networking infrastructure spanning router hardware, operating systems, optical transceivers, and distributed orchestration systems. Lead architecture and cross-team technical initiatives, write maintainable code, improve reliability, observability, performance, and automation, apply AI-driven engineering practices, and mentor engineers while collaborating with hardware, supply chain, datacenter operations, research, vendors, and senior leaders.

Build and maintain a full-stack sewer inspection analysis platform using React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, AWS, computer vision, geospatial analysis, and Temporal.io. Responsibilities include developing interactive dashboards, scalable APIs, video-processing workflows, mapping and risk-assessment tools, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and automated testing and deployment pipelines.

Build and maintain Life360’s iOS advertising SDK, mediation and header-bidding integrations, ad formats, privacy and consent flows, instrumentation, and experimentation systems. Improve ad quality, performance, and reliability at large scale while collaborating with ad operations, data, product, and external partners. Use AI-native workflows with agentic coding tools, contribute to architecture and incident response, and mentor teammates.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Nextdoor’s monetization platform, building scalable, reliable, secure systems for advertising and subscription products. Partner with Product, ML, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver complex initiatives. Improve engineering standards, observability, release safety, and developer productivity while remaining hands-on in implementation, debugging, launches, and production operations. Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leaders.

Leads technical vision and roadmap for Freenome’s cloud platform, designs and operates scalable Kubernetes-based systems, and drives cross-team initiatives. The role troubleshoots complex platform issues, improves reliability and cloud-cost efficiency, supports AI adoption, and builds secure infrastructure for AI and data workflows. It also mentors engineers, partners with scientific and technical teams, and remains hands-on with architecture, coding, design reviews, and operations.

Design, build, and operate MongoDB Atlas features and distributed backend systems, with a focus on encryption, compliance, customer-managed keys, and cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Lead complex technical projects and fleet-wide production rollouts, collaborate with product, design, customers, and support teams, mentor engineers, resolve production issues, and participate in on-call support.

Lead the technical direction of backend systems for a cybersecurity assessment platform. Design and build scalable services, APIs, data models, and event-driven workflows; make architecture and reliability decisions; write production code; improve observability and safe deployment practices; lead cross-team initiatives; mentor engineers; contribute to hiring; and translate customer and product goals into technical strategy.

Own backend payment, wallet, ledger, reconciliation, fraud, and risk services handling real-money transactions. Design double-entry accounting systems, integrate payment processors and KYC/AML vendors, ensure exact-once posting and auditability, and support finance reporting through Snowflake and dbt. Partner with Finance, Compliance, and Trust & Safety while participating in on-call coverage for high-volume sports events.

Build infrastructure for AI-driven software development, including cloud coding environments, autonomous coding agents, SRE integrations, and reusable agent platforms. Own developer environments, agent integrations, security guardrails, observability, evaluation, and feedback loops. The role requires deep infrastructure experience across AWS, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and TypeScript/Node.js, plus hands-on use and orchestration of AI coding agents.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise-scale software supporting healthcare revenue cycle operations. Designs scalable applications, APIs, microservices, integrations, cloud-native solutions, and healthcare interoperability workflows using HL7, FHIR, and EDI/X12. Leads architecture, automation, security, performance, code reviews, troubleshooting, modernization, and technical strategy while collaborating with product, operations, analytics, infrastructure, and engineering teams.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Build and support complex features across C#/.NET back-end services and React front ends. Responsibilities include technical design, API and data modeling, secure and tested coding, production troubleshooting, code reviews, mentoring, documentation, and improving engineering practices. Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps, Technical Leads, and architecture teams while balancing delivery, maintainability, performance, accessibility, observability, and security.

Build and own a greenfield mobile application for iOS and Android, including architecture, features, security, accessibility, testing, telemetry, and App Store and Play Store releases. Use AI coding agents throughout development, establish CI/CD and rollout processes, solve secure fintech problems, and collaborate with Product, Design, and backend engineers. Mentor teammates and drive high-quality, reliable customer experiences.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems and services powering the Organizer platform. Own solutions from discovery through production, make architectural decisions, improve reliability and scalability, debug distributed systems, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering. Mentor teammates, improve engineering practices, and strengthen testing, observability, documentation, deployment, and developer experience.

Develop and operate software for Azure’s hyperscale networking infrastructure and SONiC switch and router platforms. Responsibilities include designing, coding, optimizing, debugging, and maintaining network software; supporting packet forwarding, telemetry, observability, reliability, and performance; creating design and release plans; responding to incidents; and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in software engineering, IP networking, distributed systems, Linux, SDN technologies, and container-based environments.

Design, build, test, and support integrations between NodeZero and security, SIEM, SOAR, and ITSM platforms. Own integrations from partner API requirements through production launch and support. Develop reliable patterns for authentication, event delivery, retries, idempotency, pagination, rate limits, and schema mapping. Improve shared frameworks, testing, documentation, and observability; troubleshoot production issues; and collaborate with product, engineering, and partner teams on architecture and technical requirements.

Own the architecture, implementation, and operational excellence of major Azure Boost DPU software components. Develop low-level systems software spanning operating systems, virtualization, networking, storage, device management, and hardware interfaces. Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, optimize hyperscale performance and reliability, resolve system-level issues, establish engineering practices, influence platform architecture, and mentor engineers across Azure infrastructure teams.

Designs and develops backend platform software for a multi-tenant SaaS environment using Python, Django, Ember, and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include building testable systems, leading technical design initiatives, troubleshooting defects, collaborating remotely, reviewing code through pull requests, and contributing to team processes. The role also involves AWS-based development, Docker, APIs, SQL, background jobs, CI/CD, authentication, observability, and production debugging.