Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads the technical vision, architecture, and execution of AI performance, framework, benchmarking, and developer-productivity initiatives. Drives cross-team architecture, resolves complex systems trade-offs, mentors technical leaders, and contributes hands-on through prototyping, implementation, reviews, debugging, observability, and automation. Delivers measurable improvements in model onboarding speed, runtime performance, reliability, hardware utilization, and Azure capacity efficiency across models, frameworks, compilers, runtimes, systems, services, and hardware.

Build and operate end-to-end consumer-scale features for Life360’s Verticals team, initially focused on Aging in Place. Work across Java and Spring Boot backend services, Kafka, AWS, and native iOS and Android applications. Use AI tools and agentic workflows throughout development, define AI-native engineering practices, contribute to architecture and reviews, participate in on-call response, mentor teammates, and ensure reliability, accessibility, and member impact.

Lead architecture and hands-on delivery of secure mobile and backend applications for U.S. Air Force tactical users. Build resilient real-time communication, messaging, and offline mapping capabilities for degraded networks. Guide engineering practices involving AI-assisted development, automated testing, security review, and CI/CD. Partner cross-functionally, manage two engineers, and coach their development while overseeing technical direction and delivery.

Leads AI-native software development practices, including spec-driven development, AI agent adoption, code review, testing, and engineering standards. Drives complex cross-team initiatives from architecture through rollout, improves CI/CD and end-to-end testing, and builds trustworthy automation. Partners with Engineering Managers, Product, UX, QA, and platform teams while mentoring engineers and making architectural decisions. This hands-on technical leadership role owns team technical direction without direct people management.

Provides principal-level technical leadership for scalable learning and skilling platforms. Designs architectures, writes and reviews production software, leads full software lifecycles, and applies Azure, AI, Copilot, Power Platform, and custom solutions. Responsibilities include secure integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, observability, production support, Responsible AI, reusable components, cross-team technical alignment, and engineering mentorship.

Build and operate scalable Go backend services for card issuing, wallets, authorization, and cross-border payments. Design distributed data models using Spanner and PostgreSQL, implement resilient payment flows, integrate with card networks and banking providers, and support reliability, observability, security, and regulatory compliance on GCP. Participate in incident response, code reviews, documentation, mentoring, and client collaboration during US Pacific working hours.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack applications, APIs, and platform capabilities serving millions of developers. Lead projects from conception through delivery, write reliable and testable code, optimize performance, improve observability, participate in on-call rotations, and reduce technical debt. Collaborate asynchronously with Engineering, Product, Design, and cross-functional teams while mentoring peers and thoughtfully using AI-assisted development tools.

Designs, develops, troubleshoots, and supports PLC, HMI, robotics, and industrial communication systems in automated manufacturing. Provides production and maintenance support, develops controls for new equipment and process improvements, resolves reliability issues, supports FMEA, conducts time studies, and advances Industry 4.0 and data acquisition initiatives.

Build Apollo’s AI-powered Builder Studio end to end, including chat-driven app creation, live previews, generated-app runtimes, workflows, integrations, delegated permissions, security, and reliability. The role requires strong full-stack development, production LLM experience, frontend expertise with complex UIs, backend and workflow design, and ownership of an ambiguous 0-to-1 product.

Own and improve Curri’s finance systems, including billing, collections, driver payouts, ERP integrations, reconciliation, audit trails, and financial data quality. Build full-stack solutions across Go, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, NATS, Redis, React, and React Native. Partner directly with finance and cross-functional teams to scope, ship, measure, and iterate on improvements, while using AI coding tools responsibly.

Designs, develops, and validates secure embedded software, firmware, drivers, and platform security features for commercial PCs. Responsibilities include secure boot, cryptography, device identity, firmware updates, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, security reviews, debugging, testing, documentation, CI/CD security automation, and mentoring engineers. Collaborates across hardware, BIOS, operating system, firmware, cybersecurity, and product teams to deliver secure Arm-based embedded systems.

Designs, integrates, tests, and maintains software systems across multiple platforms. Responsibilities include writing test plans and scripts, debugging defects, defining system requirements, designing architectures, configuring operating systems and software tools, supporting deployment and operations, and collaborating with internal and external development partners. The role also provides system design guidance, capacity planning, documentation, research, and recommendations for software and hardware configurations.

Provides technical leadership for designing, coding, and operating hyperscale Azure Storage services. Builds high-performance storage servers, supports emerging hardware and AI workloads, improves efficiency, availability, durability, resiliency, observability, and performance, and resolves system bottlenecks. The role requires hands-on expertise in low-level storage systems, datapath, kernel-mode programming, distributed systems, and operating systems, along with independent architecture and technical decision-making.

Design, develop, debug, and improve Elastic’s cloud control-plane offerings. The role involves guiding cross-team architecture, leading development best practices, creating technical plans, diagnosing complex failures, prioritizing fixes and features, and collaborating with Support and Elasticsearch engineering teams. The engineer will contribute to reliable, scalable SaaS foundations while providing pragmatic technical leadership across a distributed engineering organization.

Develop and integrate innovative software systems through the full software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include architecture, design, TypeScript and full-stack development, React and Node.js implementation, testing, deployment, documentation, and integration. The role operates within an agile distributed team and may involve task leadership, mentoring, Scrum Master duties, DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, release management, performance tuning, geospatial technologies, and Air Force Weather systems.

Design, develop, test, and deliver enterprise applications, APIs, services, integrations, and web applications. Own projects from technical design through production release, troubleshoot complex issues across systems and cloud environments, participate in architecture and code reviews, support CI/CD and releases, document solutions, and collaborate with Product, QA, Architecture, and engineering teams.

Designs and develops Greyspace services that simulate internet environments for cyber ranges. Responsibilities include distributed service architecture, APIs, orchestration, realistic DNS/TLS/web/mail behavior, multi-tenant isolation, platform integrations, operator workflows, testing, observability, deployment validation, and reliability improvements. The role owns technical designs, delivers production-grade software, collaborates across teams, scopes complex projects, and mentors engineers.

Build and maintain Turso’s open-source database and cloud platform. Responsibilities include advancing PostgreSQL compatibility, ensuring software correctness through testing and verification, operating cloud APIs and data planes, and scaling systems to support substantially more databases. The role involves Rust development, embedded database technology, large-scale cloud operations, observability, reliability, performance improvements, and collaboration with customers, open-source communities, and distributed teams.

Lead the design and evolution of cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and infrastructure services at large scale. Define architecture across compute, networking, storage, datacenter, and AI infrastructure environments. Improve automation, lifecycle management, observability, reliability, security, and developer productivity. Guide technical strategy across engineering organizations while contributing to GPU, HPC, bare-metal, networking, and distributed computing platforms. Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence through architecture reviews and cross-organizational collaboration.

Design and build distributed services for Azure Storage deployment orchestration and the Armada platform. Develop automated deployment workflows with validation, rollout controls, failure recovery, and monitoring. Own technical designs, write secure and tested code, conduct reviews, diagnose production issues using telemetry, and improve reliability, scalability, and performance. Collaborate across teams, provide operational support, and apply AI tools responsibly throughout the software development lifecycle.

Design and develop software to onboard hardware accelerators and improve cluster-level storage performance. Collaborate across teams, produce design docs, implement and optimize code, perform tuning and RCA, act as DRI, and participate in on-call operations and scaling/validation efforts.

Develop, test, document, maintain, and integrate software applications supporting business needs. Responsibilities include writing clean code, fixing bugs, improving performance, troubleshooting, documenting systems, collaborating with engineers and business analysts, and participating in agile development processes.

Develops low-level embedded software throughout the software lifecycle, including requirements analysis, object-oriented design, coding, unit testing, integration, formal testing, documentation, and delivery. The role requires C/C++ programming, RTOS experience, embedded components such as BSPs, device drivers, or bootloaders, and familiarity with hardware interfaces and communication protocols. The engineer troubleshoots complex technical issues and collaborates across disciplines in a cleared aerospace environment.

Develops and supports embedded software across the full software engineering lifecycle, including requirements analysis, object-oriented design, coding, unit testing, integration, formal testing, documentation, and debugging. Applies software standards, Agile practices, MBSE, and AI prompting to mission-focused applications. Requires collaboration across teams and support for delivery activities, with up to 5% travel to Huntsville, Alabama.

Develop and maintain simulation software for NASA’s Orion spacecraft program. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting logical and mathematical models using C++, Python, and MATLAB/Simulink. The role supports full software development lifecycle activities, hardware-in-the-loop environments, software quality practices, user support, and simulation of hardware functionality, system dynamics, and mission scenarios.