Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable platform software and services. Collaborate with architecture and cross-functional teams, implement platform features, participate in code reviews, document technical specifications, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance and scalability. The role requires Go development, scripting, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, containerization, cloud networking, and CI/CD experience.

Investigates customer escalations, performs root-cause analysis across complex Java codebases, and delivers production-ready fixes. Uses AI-assisted tools for log analysis, defect diagnosis, code remediation, test generation, and validation. Communicates issue status, documents resolutions, maintains knowledge content, supports teammates, and contributes to product enhancements. The role includes periodic after-hours and weekend pager coverage.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

Build and maintain Python services, REST APIs, batch jobs, shared libraries, claims workflows, and internal applications. Develop maintainable, unit-tested code; write SQL for MySQL databases; participate in design, code review, deployment, and production support; and collaborate across departments. The role also involves handling sensitive healthcare data, using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and working in a regulated pharmacy benefits domain.

The Software Engineer - AI Systems will design and implement systems to coordinate LLMs, build testable software stacks, conduct research, and collaborate with team members to create AI-powered security solutions.

Build and operate full-stack systems for an AI-powered offensive security platform. Responsibilities include developing React frontends, TypeScript APIs, Kotlin and Go backend services, deploying on AWS, designing scalable systems, optimizing databases, supporting production, and owning features from concept through deployment. The role involves close collaboration with AI and security researchers in a fast-paced remote startup.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Design, develop, optimize, and debug C++ software for ultra-low-latency WebRTC streaming. Implement real-time transport, security, media, and congestion-control protocols; contribute to standards and protocol solutions; define streaming quality KPIs; and integrate software with platform, connectivity, automotive, and hardware systems.

Develop and maintain automated integration and deployment for components in a Kubernetes-based software stack. Manage third-party dependencies, validate compatibility, maintain integration workflows, troubleshoot cross-component issues, and ensure compatibility with NVIDIA hardware. The role requires extensive Linux software development experience, Python proficiency, Kubernetes and container expertise, and collaboration with QA, CI/CD, development teams, and upstream projects.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Develop scalable test automation frameworks, QA tools, and intelligent testing systems using Playwright, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, build end-to-end, integration, and performance solutions, and apply AI techniques to improve test generation and defect detection. Partner with engineering and QA teams, troubleshoot reliability issues, contribute to test strategy, and mentor colleagues on automation and modern testing practices.

Build and operate highly scalable Go backend services and data infrastructure for the AT Protocol ecosystem. Scale systems to support hundreds of millions of users, hundreds of millions of events, petabytes of NVMe storage, thousands of CPU cores, and tens of terabytes of RAM. Responsibilities include developing mission-critical services, managing production operations, and working with databases, distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and storage technologies.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll develop software systems for NVIDIA's rack-scale infrastructure, defining software architecture, collaborating across teams, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high-quality technical decisions in complex environments.

Build and maintain network automation and orchestration software for NVIDIA GPU Cloud and SuperPod deployments. Design/configure centralized configuration management, integrate cloud provider APIs, implement data pipelines and streaming telemetry, and automate lifecycle operations from procurement to deployment. Collaborate with infrastructure experts to deliver zero-touch, production-grade network provisioning, monitoring, and management tools.

Design, build, and operate core cloud-native infrastructure services for NVIDIA DGX Cloud. Develop scalable, secure microservices and automation for provisioning and lifecycle management, integrate internal and external platforms, and implement observability and security to ensure reliable, global production operations.

Lead the technical direction of Carrum Health’s billing and payments platform. Centralize pricing, define billing service boundaries and data models, and build reliable systems for invoicing, provider payments, and financial reporting. Partner with Product, Finance, Operations, and Data on cross-team initiatives, write architectural documentation, mentor engineers, and ensure financial correctness, observability, auditability, and safe rollbacks. Work primarily with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS in a remote-first startup environment.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.

Architects scalable distributed systems and low-level cloud platform services, establishes engineering standards and SLOs, designs CI/CD and deployment safety pipelines, leads complex incident escalations and postmortems, and mentors engineering teams. The role requires full-stack, API, and microservices development in Linux or Unix environments, strong SRE expertise, architectural leadership, and US citizenship with eligibility for security clearance.

Develop scalable Java-based software and distributed systems for BILL’s Growth team. Improve subscription, monetization, pricing, packaging, and customer upgrade or downgrade experiences. Build AWS-based SaaS applications, design SQL and NoSQL databases, implement CI/CD pipelines, and apply generative AI to software engineering. Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional engineering teams to drive user growth, revenue, and feature engagement.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using PHP, Laravel, React, Next.js, SQL, and related technologies. Own features from design through deployment and monitoring, develop APIs, optimize databases and legacy systems, troubleshoot performance issues, and contribute to code quality, security, and engineering practices. Collaborate cross-functionally in an agile, continuous-deployment environment while using AI-assisted tools responsibly.

Own Headway’s cloud platform and infrastructure engineering strategy. Lead deployment isolation, container orchestration, AWS networking and compute, autoscaling, capacity planning, Terraform self-service infrastructure, cloud cost attribution, and Python runtime performance. Build reliable paved-road tooling that enables engineering teams to deploy safely and independently while improving scalability, observability, and operational resilience.

Designs and develops scalable full-stack eCommerce platforms using Java, Spring Boot, React, and TypeScript. Leads microservices and micro-frontend architecture, cloud-hosted platforms, distributed data and messaging solutions, streaming and batch pipelines, payment integrations, performance optimization, accessibility, and PCI-DSS compliance. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, architecture guidance, code reviews, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead technical strategy and execution for build, test, release, and deployment systems. Drive initiatives to improve developer productivity, deployment safety, and platform reliability. Coordinate cross-team projects and migrations, contribute high-impact code, coach engineers, and lead incident response and resilience improvements for shared engineering systems.

Build Doowii’s conversational analytics platform across frontend, backend, data interaction, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include creating data-query interfaces, developing APIs, integrating AI-driven features, optimizing query and storage performance, managing AWS and GCP systems, designing data models, and maintaining ingestion pipelines involving NiFi, Kafka, Iceberg, and BigQuery. The role also involves model evaluation, schema evolution, change data capture, high-throughput streaming, automation, and rapid startup iteration.