Top Remote C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Deploy production software alongside military operators in restricted and air-gapped environments. Integrate core and simulation platforms with partner C2 systems and databases, write scripts, transform schemas, debug distributed systems, analyze logs, isolate failures, and convert recurring field workarounds into reusable product capabilities. Brief engineers and senior military stakeholders while translating mission needs into technical solutions.

Leads architecture and technical direction for scalable, high-availability software services. Owns complex, multi-team initiatives, makes autonomous technical decisions, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, establishes standards, and advocates for quality. The role develops mission-critical systems supporting millions of endpoints and requires deep Java expertise, scalable system design, API development, relational databases, and strong testing practices.

Principal Architect responsible for shaping Wasabi’s object storage and database architecture. Designs large-scale distributed systems, evaluates database technologies, builds proofs of concept, troubleshoots performance and reliability issues, and guides long-term technical direction. The role requires deep AWS S3, database internals, distributed systems, Linux, networking, programming, and AI architecture expertise, along with technical leadership, mentoring, and hands-on engineering.

Leads architecture and development of scalable, high-availability software systems supporting millions of endpoints. Owns complex multi-team initiatives, makes technical decisions, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and improves software quality. Requires deep Java development, distributed systems, API design, database engineering, system scalability, testing, and AI-assisted development experience.

Research and analyze vehicle network signals, OEM telematics data, wiring diagrams, and field logs to expand vehicle telemetry coverage. Capture and interpret vehicle network data using live debugging, log analysis, scraping, reverse engineering, and custom scripts. Validate solutions on vehicles and at customer locations, document findings, and collaborate with global engineering and product teams to support new telematics capabilities.

Develop cross-platform C++ and Qt software for network device discovery, monitoring, and data collection across Windows and Linux. Build high-performance, concurrent, asynchronous systems that communicate with thousands of devices using SNMP, SSH, ICMP, WMI, and related protocols. Own testing, troubleshoot issues across application, operating-system, and network layers, optimize reliability and performance, and collaborate with backend, UI, QA, and product teams.

Own the reliability, performance, architecture, and lifecycle of heterogeneous database platforms. Design and operate relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse systems; improve provisioning, developer tooling, CI/CD, backups, disaster recovery, security, and performance. Influence architecture and product decisions, lead migrations and upgrades, troubleshoot developer and production environments, and establish platform standards, documentation, and regulatory traceability.

Lead development of scalable Java backend applications and high-availability cloud services. Design architectures, REST APIs, databases, caching systems, and distributed session infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, address performance and scalability challenges, and uphold quality and automation practices for endpoint management products.

Develop state estimation and navigation algorithms for autonomous systems operating in GPS-denied environments. Build production-grade C++ software for embedded Linux robotic platforms, create modeling and simulation tools, and implement comprehensive testing and validation. Collaborate on roadmap planning and agile execution while improving benchmarking and performance-analysis pipelines. The role requires professional C++ expertise, state estimation algorithm experience, sensor-fusion familiarity, and the ability to deploy reliable autonomy software.

Develop scalable C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior across millions of managed Windows endpoints. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, shipping production code, designing new systems, writing architecture documents, defining subsystem contracts, and collaborating with server, UI, product, and design teams. The role requires deep Windows systems and kernel-driver expertise, with preferred experience in WHQL, minifilter or WFP drivers, macOS Endpoint Security, and Linux kernel development.

Build and maintain MongoDB’s distributed database infrastructure for cluster scalability. Design data partitioning, data movement, dynamic scaling, workload execution, and resilient distributed protocols. Solve complex performance and low-latency systems problems, contribute production-quality C++ code, participate in design and code reviews, lead new feature development, and mentor engineers.

Leads performance engineering across the organization by designing load-testing and data-generation frameworks, defining benchmarks and standards, analyzing application, database, and system behavior, and guiding teams in performance optimization. Builds reusable tooling and best practices using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB while addressing scalability, latency, throughput, and reliability challenges in distributed cloud-native systems.

Own and evolve enterprise CI/CD release pipelines, with emphasis on continuous delivery, progressive rollouts, automated health checks, rollback, and multi-service releases. Lead Terraform and multi-cloud IaC architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including reusable modules, state management, governance, security, compliance, and cost controls. Drive organization-wide IaC adoption, monitor deployments and infrastructure, respond to incidents, and mentor engineering teams.

Design and implement a distributed query optimization system for MongoDB. Research query systems, architect features, write and review production-quality C++ code, debug large codebases, coordinate cross-team integrations, and mentor engineers while shaping long-term roadmap and performance improvements.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable, secure Azure networking software and automation tools. Act as DRI, monitor production, troubleshoot incidents, run root-cause analysis, and drive reliability, performance, and cost improvements. Collaborate with PMs and architects, participate in design/code reviews, mentor engineers, and champion security, privacy, and compliance.

Lead engineering for a hyperscale deployment platform serving Microsoft 365 services. Design and deliver scalable deployment features across the full software lifecycle, mentor engineers, and drive automation and AI-powered solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, performance, and operational excellence. Collaborate with product managers and partner teams while ensuring high-quality, maintainable, production-grade software.

Lead the architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for Microsoft's Windows ML compiler stack. Design high-performance compiler infrastructure, execution engines, optimization frameworks, and developer tools supporting CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads. Drive NPU enablement, graph optimization, scheduling, memory management, code generation, and hardware abstraction. Partner with silicon vendors and internal teams, influence AI hardware and platform strategy, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers developing on-device and generative AI capabilities.

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 optimize distributed Lance dataset operations, high-performance indices, table formats, and data encodings in Rust. Develop integrations with Spark, Hive Metastore, Presto, Trino, Ray, and other data infrastructure systems. Improve internal data processing infrastructure, contribute to open-source communities, and promote Lance through technical conferences. The role requires deep distributed systems expertise and extensive experience with high-performance databases, big data, or AI training systems.

Develops wafer-test infrastructure and design-verification experiments for photonic and electronic integrated circuits. Responsibilities include characterizing devices, automating wafer and chip test stations, integrating commercial hardware, analyzing measurement data, collaborating with design teams, and creating custom hardware with CAD and rapid prototyping to support manufacturing.

Lead architecture, product definition, design, fabrication, testing, and validation of silicon photonic integrated circuits for coherent optical transport systems. Develop link budgets, optimize system performance, and establish design-for-test and design-for-manufacturing strategies. Collaborate across photonics, RFIC/EIC, DSP, packaging, foundry, testing, and product teams to deliver scalable, manufacturable optical engines and integrated transceiver solutions.

Develops digital pre-distortion algorithms for radio products, optimizing nonlinear power amplifier performance, modeling accuracy, and bandwidth. Collaborates with hardware design teams on DFE, AFE, feedback paths, and DPD engine selection. Implements production-grade DPD software on radio hardware, conducts robustness testing, troubleshoots lifecycle issues, and contributes to hardware integration. Requires expertise in digital signal processing, nonlinear system modeling, RF design, wireless standards, FPGA or ASIC development, and Matlab, Python, and C++.

Develop and optimize NVIDIA’s proprietary C++ GPU compiler backend. Responsibilities include designing compiler passes, improving code generation and machine instruction performance, supporting GPU architectures, and collaborating with compiler, hardware, and application teams. The role requires strong C++ and compiler code-generation expertise, with preferred experience in LLVM, instruction scheduling, register allocation, CUDA, DirectX, OpenGL, and Vulkan.

R&D intern developing and validating compiler features for high-performance computing. Responsibilities include analyzing CPU/GPU performance, reading PTX and LLVM assembly, implementing hardware intrinsics and mathematical algorithms, fixing compiler bugs, creating benchmarks and demos, and writing technical documentation. The role requires strong C++ or C# skills, understanding of memory management and object-oriented programming, and interest in CUDA, OpenMP, GPU architecture, algorithms, and numerical methods.

Develop compiler and high-performance computing solutions that translate .NET and Java bytecode into optimized CUDA and ROCm code for CPUs and GPUs. Analyze customer algorithms, design parallel implementations, extend compilation infrastructure, build reusable libraries, and optimize throughput and latency. Apply expertise in GPU programming, compiler architecture, mathematics, and software engineering to deliver performance matching or exceeding hand-tuned binaries.