Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Build and maintain Mozilla’s Internal Developer Infrastructure Platform, including CI/CD, observability, Kubernetes optimization, environment bootstrapping, and cloud cost optimization. Support development teams, guide technical decisions, create platform features and agentic workflows, improve developer productivity, and promote maintainable engineering practices. The role also requires cross-functional collaboration, technical leadership, proposal writing, and resolving ambiguous infrastructure challenges.

Lead quality assurance for storage and filesystem features, designing test strategies, executing system, stress, regression, and cross-functional testing, and developing automation. Collaborate with developers, tools teams, and customer support to improve testability, reproduce issues, and debug defects. The role requires expertise in NFS, SMB, NAS filesystems, Linux, Windows, VMware, shell scripting, Python, packet capture, test infrastructure, and release management.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of large-scale Azure cloud infrastructure and machine learning platforms. Design distributed systems for model training, inference, data processing, and platform services; improve compute efficiency, reliability, security, scalability, and observability; guide Kubernetes and AI workloads in production; support MLOps practices; establish engineering standards; and mentor engineers across teams.

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.

The Senior Back-End Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend systems while taking ownership of the software development lifecycle.

Build and operate scalable Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure, develop Terraform infrastructure-as-code, maintain internal developer platform and tooling, support automation, security, and performance, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and incident escalation.

The role involves designing, building, and optimizing a data platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring data quality and security.

Develop and maintain high-volume, mission-critical enterprise web applications using C#/.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, and SQL Server. Responsibilities include full lifecycle development, architecture and design participation, troubleshooting, performance and scalability improvements, AI-assisted workflow development, Agile collaboration, technical mentoring, and supporting multi-tier systems.

Lead end-to-end design, development, deployment, testing, and production support of enterprise web applications. Build scalable client/server architectures, ensure security and data governance, mentor team members, collaborate with product and business stakeholders, and own timely delivery and quality of solutions. Analyze data patterns and support reporting and selection workflows.

Own end-to-end full-stack features for client- and team-facing servicing applications. Design and implement front-end (Next.js/React) and back-end (.NET/C# with NestJS GraphQL), deploy and operate on AWS/EKS, use AI-assisted development workflows, collaborate with cross-functional and distributed teams, and mentor engineers while participating in on-call rotation for production reliability.

Develops and supports software solutions for federal IPv4-to-IPv6 network and application transitions. Responsibilities include software lifecycle development, systems analysis, technical documentation, IPv6 modifications, cloud recommendations, automated networking deployment workflows, and technical leadership across complex assignments. The role is fully remote and may involve supervising others.

Design, develop, test, and maintain Java and Angular applications supporting USTRANSCOM’s Integrated Booking System. Responsibilities include implementing requirements, code reviews, defect resolution, REST API integration, CI/CD and DevSecOps support, secure coding, STIG alignment, documentation, and Agile collaboration with architecture, QA, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.

Design, implement, debug, and ship features for Azure Storage front end at cloud scale. Drive design, dependency identification, automation, reliability, observability, and on-call incident response while collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring engineers.

Design and implement scalable, highly available Azure Storage backend components. Maintain and automate storage repositories and DevOps pipelines, improve test automation, troubleshoot deployments and networking, act as on-call DRI for reliability, and collaborate on design and operational improvements.

Build and maintain full-stack systems for a global monitoring application supporting federal partners and satellite data access. Responsibilities include designing scalable backend services and frontend applications, improving architecture and infrastructure, integrating complex customer requirements, and owning mission-system quality and availability. The role requires collaboration across teams throughout the engineering lifecycle and experience with cloud infrastructure, observability, geospatial data, and complex integrations.

Design and build platforms for new products, develop generative AI features, ensure system reliability, and foster a collaborative culture in a startup environment.

Develops and sustains modernized software applications for NAVSUP BSC, including coding, integration testing, documentation, debugging, cybersecurity, CI/CD automation, artifact management, and production support. The role requires Java, JavaScript, SQL, Oracle, .NET, C#, DevOps, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code, and secure software development experience. Responsibilities include designing common services, maintaining existing systems, supporting Agile teams, conducting quality audits, and collaborating with engineering, security, operations, and government stakeholders.

Design, build, and scale distributed backend platforms and APIs. Lead technical design, own production systems, improve CI/CD, observability, and reliability. Mentor engineers, drive engineering best practices, and leverage AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and quality.

Lead design and implementation of Doowiis frontend, backend, and data systems. Define architecture, build scalable ingestion and analytics pipelines, optimize storage and query performance, ship AI-driven features (LLM/text-to-SQL, embeddings), improve observability and deployment, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and ML teams.

Develop and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservice environment. Build AI-powered applications with LLMs, GenAI agents, RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector databases, and LLMOps practices. Collaborate across teams, optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, participate in code reviews, and create responsive user interfaces.

Contract software engineer to design and implement C++ (C++11) libraries and APIs within an existing framework. Work involves high-performance and parallel programming (MPI/OpenMP), Linux-based development, performance-aware coding, and collaborating with a team to extend and integrate software designs. Seismic/geoscience experience and open-source contributions are a plus.

Develop, enhance, and support Windows desktop upstream scientific business applications. Collaborate with engineers and geoscientists, troubleshoot global client issues, apply OOP patterns, write testable code, and participate in UI and web application development.

Design and implement high-performance C++ (C++11) libraries and APIs using STL, Boost, and Qt on Linux. Optimize software for hardware performance and HPC (MPI/OpenMP), extend and integrate with existing internal frameworks, follow prescribed designs, and collaborate within an engineering team. Seismic/geoscience and open-source experience are a plus.

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of core MarkLogic database features using C++. Build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems; optimize performance; debug complex server-side issues; and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, development, QA, and documentation teams to deliver secure, high-quality database capabilities involving search, security, language runtimes, JavaScript integration, scalability, and reliability.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define technical strategy for Drive-Thru solutions, standardize Android practices, and ensure seamless integration between mobile clients and backend services while mentoring peers.