Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Own and architect Linux kernel-space enforcement for an identity security platform using eBPF and BPF LSM hooks. Build kernel and userspace enforcement boundary, optimize syscall hot paths, extend enforcement to containers and Kubernetes, ensure portability across kernel versions, collaborate on shared policy/backend, mentor engineers, and drive production-grade, low-latency security enforcement.

Own design, implementation, and production support of Windows kernel-mode enforcement drivers (filesystem, process/thread, handles, registry) and the kernel/user-mode enforcement boundary. Reduce enforcement latency at scale, extend enforcement to containers and isolation, ensure compatibility across Windows builds, handle driver signing and deployment, collaborate cross-platform on policy and the Rust userspace agent, and mentor engineers while driving technical direction and operational stability.

The Senior Software Engineer II at Freenome will design and develop reliable backend services, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams in a remote setting.

Lead the long-term technical vision and architecture for ServiceTitan's iOS platform. Design scalable mobile frameworks, define data access patterns via GraphQL, champion TCA, adopt Apple platform capabilities, integrate AI-assisted developer tools, drive cross-org alignment, mentor senior engineers, and set engineering standards for code quality, performance, testing, and extensibility.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop full stack software using Typescript, MySQL, React, and Next.js, oversee features from conception to production, and collaborate across teams at Ethena.

Design and implement automated test frameworks and data validation utilities for enterprise data platforms. Validate data transformations, pipelines, lineage, and performance across Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Hadoop and cloud environments. Integrate tests into CI/CD, perform white-box and performance testing, investigate production defects, and collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure P&C insurance data quality and regulatory readiness.

Design and optimize high-performance C++/CUDA libraries for GPU-based data processing. Improve multi-node GPU communication (UcxExchange), optimize Presto GPU query performance, and lead enhancements across Presto, Velox, and cuDF projects for efficient DataFrame and database acceleration.

Lead engineering of core scheduling and orchestration subsystems for an orbital edge compute platform. Own an MVP for autonomous scheduling across compute node fleets, scale to larger satellite fleets with data sovereignty, design performant and reliable distributed engines, build scheduling and workload-placement logic for intermittent-connectivity edge environments, and provide technical leadership while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, customer-focused solutions.

Lead a small engineering team to design, build, and deliver full-stack features using React, TypeScript, Python (Django), Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Own technical delivery from design through deployment, driving testing, CI/CD, containerized deployments (Kubernetes), event-driven architectures (Kafka), performance, reliability, and mentoring across the team while partnering with Product and Design.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for millions of users. Collaborate with product and UX, implement automated testing, participate in on-call incident management, and mentor teammates while delivering complex distributed-system projects.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ingestion agents for fleet robotics. Define efficient data formats/protocols, implement observability and big-data processing (Spark/Kafka), and build cloud tools (S3, Athena, SageMaker) for analytics, IoT integration, and long-horizon forecasting to improve robot performance and operational insights.

Design, build, and scale GraphQL APIs, low-latency gRPC services, and SQL-backed wagering flows for online casino products. Own complex technical problems end-to-end, improve production performance and observability (DataDog), mentor engineers, and deliver integrations with game providers while operating services on Kubernetes and participating in on-call rotations.

Lead design and implementation of scalable APIs and agent communication layers for an AI-agent driven advertising marketplace. Build high-throughput backend systems, integrate agent frameworks and adtech partners, drive architecture for authentication and protocols, mentor engineers, and prototype agent communication patterns while collaborating with product and design.

Lead architecture and implement core backend services and data models that manage account state, eligibility, and entitlements at scale. Collaborate with product, design, Payments/Wallet, and identity teams to ensure correctness, reliability, and extensibility. Drive cross-team architecture decisions, mentor engineers, run design reviews, and proactively identify and mitigate scalability, reliability, and data-integrity risks.

Build and own end-to-end, production-grade full‑stack features across backend, frontend, data pipelines, and infrastructure. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business problems into shipped software, drive cross-team initiatives, and improve tooling and code quality. Use AI coding tools daily to accelerate development and maintain reliability for customer-facing products.

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.

Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch core storage and query engine components for observability workloads. Drive architectural improvements, resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing and serialization, optimize data layouts for object storage, lead cross-organizational initiatives, mentor engineers, triage community issues, and write idiomatic modern Java in a distributed team.

Drive architecture and technical vision for Elasticsearch core storage and query engine. Lead performance and storage-efficiency improvements, design indexing/serialization/data layouts, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-organizational initiatives, triage community issues, and write idiomatic modern Java for logs and metrics workloads.

Build and maintain the GG App across Windows, macOS, and iOS including installers, background services, auto-update systems, enterprise deployment paths, health reporting, AWS backend, and documentation. Lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and champion AI adoption and automation across engineering.

Lead and manage an API engineering team owning core services for Fundrise investor applications. Set technical direction, coach engineers, drive architecture, ensure production quality, security, monitoring, and coordinate cross-team delivery.

Lead and implement backend and developer-experience initiatives across Clojure and Go systems. Define architecture, build and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases and APIs, improve observability and reliability, mentor senior engineers, and drive cross-team delivery from ambiguity to measurable outcomes while participating in on-call rotation.

Design, build, and operate high-performance, distributed .NET and TypeScript/React applications and cloud APIs. Implement microservices on AWS, automated testing, GitHub Actions CI/CD, observability with OpenTelemetry, and diagnose production issues to ensure scalable, reliable systems.

Own and improve Plane's automated test suite for web and desktop clients: design frameworks, cover hard-to-test scenarios (concurrency, offline/recovery, agent-driven nondeterminism), keep tests fast and reliable, run suites in CI, test cloud and self-hosted environments, and triage failures across teams and community PRs.

The Senior Platform Engineer will enhance internal tooling, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and ensure AWS infrastructure reliability and security while facilitating fast software development and deployment.

Build and maintain platform systems that provision, secure, and observe isolated agent execution environments. Design reusable primitives for queues, jobs, locks, and service-bus mechanics. Extend Pulumi-based IaC, work with containers, Linux internals, storage, permissions, logging, and runtime debugging. Ship reliable, maintainable infrastructure-driven application code and collaborate in a small cross-functional team.