Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, develop, implement, test, and support high-quality internal software and customer-facing products. Enhance existing products and design APIs that integrate systems. Ensure security measures and perform code testing and reviews.

Design and build the control plane for Postgres clusters, ensure data protection, automate database operations, and collaborate with customers to enhance the platform.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop high-performance software for executing open-source LLMs on custom hardware, focusing on optimizations and efficient libraries primarily in C++.

Pipeline for software engineering roles at multiple levels. Work may include design, development, testing of embedded or application software, firmware and hardware-software integration, code review, debugging, performance optimization, Agile/Scrum practices, and cross-functional collaboration with systems, controls, and hardware teams.

The Senior Back-End Software Engineer will design and implement a serverless platform, work closely with the product team, and own entire projects, driving innovation in telehealth.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead projects, architect solutions, mentor junior staff, and work full stack on platform development.

The Senior .NET Software Engineer will drive development of .NET software products, focusing on back-end engineering, code reviews, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead complex software projects, mentor engineers, and set technical direction at Vanta while contributing to security and compliance solutions.

Design and develop backend services and APIs for identity resolution, optimize event-driven systems, and enhance system reliability. Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Architect and refine scalable cloud infrastructure software for enterprise and internet-scale environments. Responsibilities include developing robust software, designing systems supporting 1,000+ nodes, optimizing performance, and collaborating with distributed technical teams in agile environments.

As a mid-level Software Engineer, you'll deliver Python-based platform features, collaborate with teams, and maintain system reliability and scalability.

Develop backend systems for 3D AutoReview, including geometry parsing, model analysis, quality detection, rule systems, scalable APIs, and AI-assisted review workflows. Collaborate with backend, frontend, product, and machine learning teams to deliver production features. Build extensible systems for custom 3D rules and reference data while experimenting with CAD, machine learning, and large language model technologies.

Develop, modernize, operate, and maintain mission-critical software for CNMOC. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, debugging, ETL/ELT pipeline development, data integration, cloud and container operations, translating customer needs into user stories, sprint delivery, technical communication, and mentoring developers. The role also supports geospatial systems, databases, DevSecOps practices, Agile ceremonies, and customer issue escalation.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for mobile app infrastructure, owning shared components (design system, networking, CI/CD, observability, releases, tooling). Collaborate cross-functionally, set code/design standards, ensure operational readiness and on-call processes, mentor engineers, and drive large, business-impacting projects and migrations across the JS↔native boundary.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

Leads software quality assurance and testing for flight software, ground systems, and simulation environments. Owns aerospace-aligned quality processes, requirements traceability, verification and validation, test planning, automation, and defect tracking. Mentors and manages test engineers, oversees test resources across projects, participates in Agile planning, and drives collaboration and continuous improvement. The role requires extensive aerospace software testing experience, including embedded, real-time, or flight software, with expertise in automation, CI/CD, and software V&V.

Lead the design, development, integration, verification, and testing of mission-critical communications software for spacecraft. Provide technical and team leadership, analyze requirements, oversee C/C++ and Python development, manage software risks, and establish validation procedures. Support embedded systems, RF communications, data protocols, software-defined radios, encryption, real-time operating systems, and avionics integration. Maintain technical documentation, coordinate sprint planning, and manage resources across multiple projects.

Leads the design, development, integration, testing, and verification of navigation input/output software for aerospace systems. Provides technical and team leadership, analyzes requirements, oversees C/C++ and Python implementation, manages real-time GN&C performance, mitigates risks, maintains technical documentation, and coordinates resources across multiple projects. The role also requires collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and experience integrating navigation sensors, actuators, avionics, embedded software, and I/O protocols.

Build and maintain software integrations connecting Cribl’s stream-processing engine with systems such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and cloud storage platforms. Research third-party technologies, develop robust Node.js and TypeScript code, create automated and integration tests, collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in code reviews and on-call support, and contribute to documentation and technical communities.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for shaping technical strategy and architecting automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image builds. The role involves developing production Go, AI- and LLM-powered developer tooling, quality frameworks, CLIs, and scalable services. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, influencing roadmaps, improving reliability, and collaborating across distributed teams. Candidates need strong systems architecture, Linux, build systems, container ecosystem, and developer tooling experience, with familiarity in software supply chain security preferred.

Design, scale, and optimize APIs, services, databases, and critical wagering, financial ledger, and regulatory systems. Lead complex technical initiatives, improve production performance and resilience, build integrations and migrations, manage monitoring, and mentor engineers. The role requires ownership of end-to-end delivery, on-call operations, scalable distributed systems, GraphQL, relational databases, Kubernetes, asynchronous processing, and highly accurate, auditable financial systems.

Own the architecture and development of critical backend and cloud platform domains. Design scalable, secure, multi-tenant distributed systems on AWS, including event-driven services, APIs, data models, and AI/ML infrastructure. Lead major initiatives from design through release, align cross-functional stakeholders, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, observability, security, and cost-efficiency improvements.

Build and operate services and tooling to automate network lifecycle, ensure safe network changes, develop scalable observability and telemetry, integrate network source-of-truth via APIs, and collaborate with network engineers and SREs to deliver production-grade automation and reliability.

Build and own enterprise platform components end to end, integrating with customer infrastructure and self-managed Kubernetes environments. Develop observability, improve reliability and availability, debug distributed systems, address security vulnerabilities, and deliver production software for enterprise users. Collaborate with product and technical leads, mentor engineers, and maintain hands-on ownership across design, implementation, deployment, and production operations.