Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design and deliver scalable control-plane and management services for Azure Storage at hyperscale. Lead architecture, reliability, and performance work for storage platforms that support AI workloads, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and own system health, incident response, and long-term technical roadmaps.

Design, build, ship, and own high-scale, user-facing product features across frontend, backend, and data systems. Define problems, scope and prioritize work, collaborate with Product, monitor production usage, debug incidents, improve reliability, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend expertise alongside React proficiency and ownership from product discovery through long-term maintenance.

Design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems. Contribute to architecture, build CI/CD pipelines, design distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and improve observability, performance, and operational reliability across teams.

Build, operate, and extend data platform and application-layer services enabling secure, self-service data applications at scale. Implement provisioning, CI/CD, access control, integrations, observability, automation, and incident response while contributing to semantic layer and AI-ready tooling roadmaps.

Design and implement scalable first-mile networking solutions for Microsoft 365 Substrate and COSMIC. Drive design, dependency identification, coding, optimization, debugging, and on-call monitoring. Analyze production telemetry to improve reliability, performance, and observability. Act as a DRI, lead design and release plans, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet product requirements at global scale.

Designs, develops, and maintains automated test frameworks and suites for complex API and web applications. Tests software functionality, performance, scalability, and database integrations; debugs defects and verifies fixes. Collaborates with engineering, QA, product, and cross-functional teams on test strategy, code reviews, sprint planning, and root-cause analysis. Contributes to CI/CD automation and creates test plans, cases, procedures, and reports.

The Open Source Engineer will expand LanceDB's integration with big data systems, manage dataset operations, and enhance open-source community efforts.

Leads software design, development, debugging, testing, deployment, and production support for web applications. Conducts code reviews, builds reusable code, improves legacy systems, monitors system health, optimizes performance, and responds to on-call incidents. Collaborates with engineering, product, design, customers, and vendors; mentors junior engineers; maintains development standards; and champions API-first development. Requires full-stack experience, cloud-native application deployment, database expertise, REST APIs, testing, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript monetization solutions using Prebid.js, Prebid Server, and Google Ad Manager. Own the header bidding wrapper, integrate auction and ad-tech standards, optimize Core Web Vitals and client-side performance, operate Google Cloud services, review code, document architecture, and resolve production issues.

Lead frontend development for a satellite-data monitoring application serving defense and intelligence customers. Design and implement React and TypeScript features, guide frontend architecture, contribute to backend APIs, mentor engineers through reviews and technical discussions, and collaborate with product managers and designers. Own feature delivery from discovery through deployment while improving state management, data fetching, component design, testing, and frontend best practices.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

Owner of core clinical backend systems: design and build TypeScript/Nest.js APIs, model clinical domains in PostgreSQL/Prisma, implement onboarding/migration flows, ensure CI/CD, monitoring, HIPAA/SOC2 readiness, collaborate with clinical stakeholders, and build monitoring/reporting with Sentry/Datadog on AWS.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll build cloud-native backend services using Golang, deploy in Kubernetes, and lead architecture projects in a startup environment.

The role involves developing APIs, building internal tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance system performance while solving engineering challenges.

Lead technical direction and execution for Code Plane products (Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, src CLI). Translate customer feedback into roadmap, ship agent-focused features, mentor engineers, own architecture and quality, participate in on-call, and partner with Product, Design, and Customer teams to deliver scalable AI-agent developer tools.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network and product requirements into computational models, improve solution quality, runtime, scalability, and explainability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability under increasing complexity and load. The role also involves managing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and maintaining production software.

Build and operate multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities across commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Responsibilities include cloud foundations, networking, identity, cluster lifecycle, packaging, GitOps delivery, infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, staged rollouts, observability, incident response, and backup/recovery. The engineer will also create self-service infrastructure primitives for internal engineering teams and support reliable fleet-scale deployments.

Own the architecture and technical direction of conversational AI and voice-ordering systems. Design reliable, low-latency backend services for live drive-thru traffic, lead cross-system integrations with POS and hardware, improve AI evaluation and observability, mentor engineers, and resolve complex production issues involving real-time audio, distributed services, and third-party integrations.

Own the architecture and technical direction of conversational AI and voice-ordering systems. Design reliable, low-latency backend services, POS and hardware integrations, AI evaluation and observability systems, and production monitoring. Lead cross-cutting initiatives, mentor engineers, partner with product and operations, and resolve complex issues involving real-time audio, third-party integrations, and distributed services.

Owns firmware and host software for field-deployed edge devices powering an AI voice drive-thru system. Responsibilities include developing microcontroller firmware, managing real-time full-duplex audio pipelines, designing serial communication and health monitoring, debugging hardware/software integrations, enabling fleet deployment and remote management, and implementing reliable recovery and over-the-air updates.

Build core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. Write clean, documented, tested code with strong error handling, logging, and performance. Design scalable systems using domain-driven design and microservices, contribute to architectural decisions, and provide technical guidance and code reviews in an Agile Scrum environment.

Designs, develops, tests, audits, troubleshoots, and improves scalable software applications for new business initiatives. Owns technical solutions from conception through deployment, works in an Agile environment, mentors engineers, performs code reviews, recommends technology choices, and drives continuous improvement while collaborating with stakeholders.

Design and maintain Golang backend services, APIs, microservices, automation tools, and Terraform infrastructure modules. Provision and manage cloud resources, troubleshoot application and deployment issues, and improve reliability and performance. Participate across the software development lifecycle, review code and infrastructure configurations, collaborate with technical teams, and communicate project risks. Use AI tools such as Claude, mentor colleagues, and contribute to client-focused technical solutions.

Lead front-end modernization and deliver full-stack features using React, .NET, PostgreSQL, and cloud technologies. Build accessible, performant applications and design systems; extend APIs, optimize SQL, contribute to Kafka pipelines, and improve testing, observability, CI, and security. Use AI coding agents for migrations, refactoring, and test generation while applying strong engineering judgment. Collaborate with product, UX, DevOps, and stakeholders to deliver reliable healthcare payment-integrity software.

Design, deploy, and operate large-scale workflow orchestration platforms (Argo/Airflow/hybrid) for simulation, ML training, data pipelines and CI/CD. Build SDKs, abstractions, and self-service tooling; ensure reliability, observability, cost-efficiency, GPU and cross-cluster scheduling on Kubernetes across cloud and on-prem; integrate with storage, streaming, registries, and CI/CD; document best practices and mentor engineers.