Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead technical contributions on architecture and data solutions: design and build secure, high-quality Java/Spring production code, guide teams and vendors, adopt enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices, improve SDLC automation, support system design, testing, model hosting (XGBoost), and low-latency/high-throughput production support.

Leads design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and operational stability for secure full-stack software solutions. Develops Java and Scala statistical algorithms, React-based applications, microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native services using AWS, Hadoop, Databricks, and Kubernetes. Reviews code, improves automation and resiliency, performs unit and integration testing, and promotes responsible AI-assisted engineering practices, secure coding, and compliant validation across an agile team.

Leads architecture, development, and operation of Python-based AWS backend and IoT cloud services. Designs Lambda microservices, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, data models, and AWS IoT Core integrations. Provides hands-on technical leadership through coding, design and code reviews, mentoring, planning, and standards development. Ensures security, scalability, observability, CI/CD, production readiness, incident response, and cross-functional alignment across firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, Product, and Security teams.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for Microsoft's virtualization platform, focusing on hypervisor and VMM capabilities. Design, implement, and optimize systems software across Windows, Linux, macOS, Azure, and containers. Improve performance, security, reliability, testing, and operational readiness; diagnose low-level hardware/software issues; enable virtualization on new silicon; mentor engineers; and influence platform strategy across teams and hardware partners.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable full-stack applications supporting drilling and rig technology. Builds AngularJS frontends, .NET/Python/C++ backend services, APIs, databases, real-time features, and data visualizations. Contributes to CI/CD, testing, secure coding, and industrial automation integrations. Collaborates with Product, Design, and Operations, participates in planning and code reviews, mentors junior developers, and supports deployments requiring domestic and international travel.

Build and operate an agentic SOC investigation platform using LLMs, including telemetry tools, investigation workflows, evidence-backed outputs, evaluation systems, and analyst productivity features. Develop secure, reliable, observable backend services that handle attacker-influenced data across customer environments. Collaborate with SOC analysts, researchers, technical leads, and product managers to translate investigative expertise into production agent behavior.

Build and ship SMART on FHIR applications, FHIR R4 APIs, CDS Hooks services, and EHR integrations for Epic, Oracle Health, and other platforms. Develop Java and Spring Boot backend services on AWS, manage PHI securely under HIPAA, and support HL7 v2 interfaces. Lead EHR vendor onboarding and production go-lives, collaborate with clinicians and health system IT, write technical designs, review code, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support.

Lead the design and development of Azure Compute Fleet capabilities that orchestrate Virtual Machine Scale Sets across regions. Build distributed control-plane services, APIs, and workflows for capacity placement, scaling, failover, and lifecycle management. Collaborate across Azure engineering teams, drive AI-enabled engineering improvements, participate in on-call operations, and improve reliability, observability, performance, and recovery for hyperscale cloud services.

Design and maintain distributed Lance dataset operations, develop high-performance indices and data formats, and improve query performance across Spark, Ray, and Trino. Contribute Rust-based table formats and encodings, integrate Lance with major open-source data infrastructure systems, operate internal data processing infrastructure, and promote the project through open-source communities and conferences.

Build and operate Temporal Cloud’s managed compute platform, including autoscaling systems, multi-tenant execution services, cloud integrations, control and data plane boundaries, security controls, observability, and reliability practices. Lead API design, rollout, incident response, technical reviews, cross-team collaboration, and mentorship for production platform capabilities.

Design, build, and operate Chainguard’s container product, including registry features, image build pipelines, distribution systems, adoption tooling, and customer-facing services. Own projects end to end, make product trade-offs, collaborate with customers and product managers, improve observability and reliability, support on-call operations, and use AI coding agents safely. The role requires systems thinking across containers, registries, build infrastructure, and customer clusters in a remote-first environment.

Build and operate full-stack product capabilities for a cybersecurity platform, with an 80% backend and 20% frontend focus. Own moderate-to-large projects from technical design through rollout, develop APIs and distributed services, create modern web experiences, and ensure reliability, observability, and maintainability. Collaborate with Product, Design, and engineering teams, contribute to architecture, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and improve product quality and execution.

Build secure, production-critical payment infrastructure for AI agent transactions. Design Python and FastAPI services, APIs, domain models, provisioning workflows, and cryptographic payment flows. Ensure scalability, reliability, observability, security, and comprehensive testing. Use Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and GitOps to automate infrastructure. Collaborate with product, security, infrastructure, platform, and card-network partners while applying AI-assisted engineering practices.

Design and build backend services and distributed systems for a customer-facing no-code product. Improve query performance across large data warehouses, develop analytics and experimentation capabilities, explore real-time computation and data syncing, and apply generative AI to user workflows. The role also involves writing product specifications, collaborating directly with users, making long-term architecture decisions, and ensuring services remain robust, maintainable, and scalable.

Build, deploy, and maintain production software that improves robotics operations. Develop internal tools, dashboards, automations, and integrations; learn and contribute to an Elixir-heavy system and Google Cloud applications. Partner with Operations and Engineering to discover workflow improvements, validate AI-assisted code, improve reliability, and support applications after launch.

Own the end-to-end development of a secure SMS Adapter connecting retail and grocery store systems, beginning with BRdata, to Ottimate’s AP platform. Responsibilities include sync architecture, retries, conflict handling, local credential security, monitoring, testing, packaging, updates, installation, and deployment on Windows machines. The engineer will work directly with pilot customers to troubleshoot network, permissions, and data-access issues while evolving data models and integrations for additional store systems.

Build and improve Azure Kubernetes Service capabilities for Linux and Windows containers. Develop distributed cloud infrastructure, automation, observability tooling, and reliability improvements at global scale. Support AI-native infrastructure, including GPU orchestration, model deployment, inference, and platform operations. Accelerate engineering workflows, prevent production incidents, integrate AI tools, and contribute to Kubernetes and cloud-native platform innovation.

Own and evolve cloud infrastructure, internal developer tooling, release automation, preview environments, and reliability practices. Build reusable libraries and SDKs, improve monitoring and tracing, manage SLOs and incident response, and solve scaling challenges across data and compute systems. The role requires strong AWS, Terraform or Pulumi, TypeScript and Node.js knowledge, startup infrastructure experience, and clear technical documentation.

Build scalable Golang microservices, APIs, and data-centric systems supporting eligibility, coverage, billing, client workflows, and healthcare operations. Automate manual processes, develop self-service tools, ensure data accuracy and traceability, and collaborate with data and AI teams on validation, automation, and anomaly detection. The role requires production backend experience, event-based architectures, cloud platforms, and strong stakeholder communication.

Build and maintain an internal application framework with authentication, hosting, CI/CD, observability, and alerting defaults. Develop custom tools such as Slack bots, web applications, and workflows for business teams. Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, integrate SaaS products and APIs, and own projects from scoping through adoption. Partner with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders while applying AI-assisted development and automation.

Early-career Software Engineer developing and maintaining Windows desktop fluid-flow simulation applications. Responsibilities span user interfaces, application logic, data models, integrations, testing, debugging, build automation, CI/CD, and modernization. The role involves collaboration with engineering, QA, product, and domain experts while contributing clean, maintainable code and participating in reviews, bug triage, and build pipeline rotations.

Design and operate production infrastructure for AI agent systems, including high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution. Build scalable distributed systems, MLOps capabilities, observability, guardrails, and failure recovery for millions of users. Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost while partnering with agent systems and infrastructure teams to harden experimental prototypes for production.

Build scalable web applications, APIs, data pipelines, and data integrations for a cybersecurity platform. Responsibilities include architecting software for high-volume data environments, designing algorithms and data structures, optimizing storage and performance, maintaining coding standards, supporting analytics data systems, and collaborating across technical and non-technical teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Build and scale a fintech risk and compliance platform as the second engineer. Responsibilities include developing full-stack features, owning product areas end to end, improving reliability and performance, collaborating with customers, participating in architecture and code reviews, and establishing engineering best practices. The role requires independent feature delivery, strong full-stack fundamentals, production experience, sound technical judgment, clear asynchronous communication, and willingness to learn compliance and AI domains.

Build responsive Bubble.io applications for startup clients, collaborate with product managers and designers, refine requirements, test tools and assumptions, communicate with clients weekly, and contribute reusable components and tutorials to the internal library. The role offers autonomy, client exposure, and opportunities to advance into technical leadership or product management.