Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, build, scale, and operate a Kafka-compatible, object-storage-backed streaming platform. Own backend services, storage engine, multi-tenant control plane, transactions and multi-region features. Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, ensure operational readiness and SLAs, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute across the full stack including developer console UI.

Develop, configure, integrate, and operationalize command-and-control (C2) and Common Operating Picture (COP) applications. Build workflow automation, event management, alerting, data fusion, dashboards, and operator-focused UX. Support testing, interoperability validation, demonstrations, and operational readiness while collaborating with systems engineering and stakeholders.

Develop and improve software, provide technical leadership to development teams, build APIs and BPMN-based process automation, support user documentation, and deliver low-code/no-code solutions using Appian, Salesforce, or Nintex with Microsoft SQL Server and .NET in agile/hybrid environments.

Build and ship end-to-end features across a TypeScript/Next.js monolith: dashboard, marketing site, billing, email, and AI-assisted tools. Own data models, APIs, third-party integrations, testing, observability, and production quality. Collaborate with the founder, review code, and improve engineering practices while delivering customer-facing features rapidly.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python applications; collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features; ensure performance and quality; identify and fix bugs; maintain code quality and automation; lead and mentor team members using agile practices.

Design and implement production-quality system software, tools, and frameworks for enterprise storage systems. Develop and run realistic validation and analysis solutions, debug cross-layer issues (application, OS, driver, hardware), collaborate with firmware/hardware teams, drive technical design, mentor engineers, and evolve internal tooling with AI integrations.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices and developer-facing APIs, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, design secure/versioned APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and develop microservices using a cloud-native tech stack, with a focus on financial services and secure systems.

Lead cross-stack adoption of modern toolchains, build and code-health practices, and performance workflows on NVIDIA CPU platforms. Integrate and validate compilers, linkers, cross-compilation, and CI; profile and optimize large codebases; build automation and playbooks; drive integration blockers to owners and communicate measurable before-and-after results to engineering teams and leadership.

Develop and operate high-throughput, low-latency telemetry pipelines and cloud services for Azure AI/HPC infrastructure. Build observability, monitoring, analytics, and automation capabilities; own architecture through deployment and operations; and lead incident response, root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, and operational readiness. Partner across engineering and platform teams, influence technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and apply distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and cloud operations practices at hyperscale.

Provide expert-level technical support for web and mobile products, debug high-performance RESTful services, triage incidents, coordinate cross-team incident response, collaborate with Client Success, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to resolve complex issues and improve product reliability.

Oversee and assess Orion spacecraft GNCP flight software across requirements, architecture, development, integration, verification, validation, safety, and certification. Review C++ code, identify software risks, coordinate defect resolution, support mission console operations during Artemis missions, and provide technical input for flight-readiness recommendations. Collaborate with NASA, prime contractors, and vehicle systems engineering teams in a human-rated spacecraft environment.

The Senior SRE Engineer will design, build, and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, manage infrastructure-as-code, and write tooling in various languages.

Responsible for designing and implementing authentication features in Go and TypeScript, enhancing Auth architecture, and collaborating with teams to improve user experience.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will design and deploy solutions for state governments, ensuring high standards of security and privacy while leading cross-functional teams.

Lead platform engineering to improve developer productivity, CI/CD, build systems, monorepo health, and internal tooling (80%); contribute to product features, scalable APIs, and AI-native marketplace infrastructure (20%).

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend systems and APIs for ingesting, processing, and routing large-scale telemetry data. Own end-to-end features, contribute to architecture and internal tools, write automated tests, participate in on-call/support rotation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performance distributed systems.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, improve automation workflows, and mentor junior engineers in a security-focused development environment.

Design, build, and operate multi-tenant elastic storage control-plane services. Ensure high availability and performance, run observability and on-call practices, lead complex projects, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to scaling services handling petabytes of data.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Lead design and development of high-performance, offline-capable iOS (iPad) and Android apps for mission-critical drone operations. Build real-time maps, video streaming, telemetry overlays; integrate with hardware; optimize battery, memory, and latency; implement offline-first sync; collaborate with backend/hardware teams; mentor engineers and establish CI/CD, testing, and security best practices.

Design, build, and operate low-latency authentication and authorization services (OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery). Lead technical designs, ensure strong security and observability, collaborate cross-functionally, simplify integrations, and mentor engineers while running production services with measurable SLOs.

Lead forward-deployed engineering engagements for strategic enterprise customers, diagnosing and resolving complex Windows deployment, management, update, application, performance, reliability, and security issues. Build automation, scripts, diagnostic tools, prototypes, and technical solutions; collaborate with Windows and Intune engineering teams on product fixes; and convert customer solutions into reusable playbooks and tools. Communicate findings to technical and executive stakeholders while delivering measurable improvements to Windows install-base health.