Top Remote Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Leads a DevOps engineering team while designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, security controls, infrastructure as code, containerized microservices, and disaster recovery processes. The role focuses on improving developer efficiency, system reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Responsibilities include incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, stakeholder communication, cross-functional collaboration, and participation in on-call support.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer ensures SaaS platforms remain reliable, performant, secure, and scalable. Responsibilities include building cloud infrastructure, implementing monitoring and alerting, automating operational runbooks and deployments, managing Infrastructure as Code, applying AI-powered observability and remediation, supporting Kubernetes and cloud networking, and leading incident triage and root-cause analysis during 24/7 on-call rotations.

Build, monitor, and scale resilient cloud infrastructure across multi-region and multi-cloud environments. Develop Kubernetes controllers and infrastructure tools using Go, Python, Ruby, and Terraform; maintain Datadog observability; diagnose complex production performance and reliability issues; automate failover and capacity management; and collaborate with engineering teams on architecture and infrastructure improvements.

Design and develop scalable C++ software for endpoint state and control across Windows, macOS, and potentially Linux. Build reliable, multi-process systems that enforce endpoint behavior, manage local state, support IPC, and operate across millions of devices. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, writing design documents, defining architecture and IPC contracts, and making technical decisions in an evolving, sparsely documented environment.

Own the durability, recoverability, performance, and security of a production PostgreSQL/RDS fleet supporting a live trading platform. Lead replication, failover, backup and restore, disaster-recovery drills, data lifecycle management, access control, encryption, and database observability. Investigate engine-level performance issues including WAL contention, replica lag, bloat, and locking. Build infrastructure and AI-assisted operational tooling while documenting runbooks and reliability decisions.

Design, scale, and operate Runpod’s distributed storage platform across network volumes, local NVMe, and S3-compatible object storage. Tune storage and high-speed network performance, lead capacity expansions and migrations, write production automation and control-plane code, extend APIs, and build observability, dashboards, SLOs, and alerts. The role also participates in on-call operations, incident response, infrastructure-as-code practices, and long-term architecture decisions for petabyte-scale AI infrastructure.

Develop and test systems-level C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior. Initially, the engineer will own testing infrastructure and coverage for two active projects, then contribute to feature development. The role requires strong C++ fundamentals, automated testing experience, and interest in operating-system concepts such as processes, file systems, services, and APIs. Work includes learning unfamiliar systems, collaborating effectively, and supporting reliable endpoint security and management capabilities.

Develop and architect a cross-platform C++ endpoint patching agent for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Responsibilities include code reviews, mentoring engineers, improving development processes, collaborating across patching teams, and translating product needs into resilient technical designs. The role involves system-level APIs, patch installation and rollback logic, embedded databases, and client-server integration.

Design and implement scalable backup software for endpoints, servers, and cloud applications. Develop Java and Kotlin services, optimize databases and queries, debug production systems, and resolve distributed-system performance issues. Contribute code, reviews, architecture discussions, documentation, and cross-team reliability initiatives. Mentor engineers and help deliver resilient products operating at large scale.

Support enterprise customers and partners integrating applications with Wasabi Cloud. Diagnose, research, reproduce, and report defects; test storage services with third-party applications; validate interoperability using APIs and SDKs; investigate S3 protocol behavior; and collaborate with sales, development, QA, product, and support teams.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Owns and optimizes resilient, ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure for institutional trading across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs routing, multicast, segmentation, firewall, VPN, telemetry, and automation systems. Leads production changes, incident response, failover testing, maintenance, and on-call support for 24/7 trading platforms. Mentors engineers and partners with SRE, product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability and developer velocity.

Own Tier 3 escalations and incident response for complex customer issues involving a cybersecurity platform. Investigate distributed systems, reproduce defects, coordinate resolutions with engineering and product teams, and build Datadog observability dashboards, monitors, and alerts. Create runbooks, troubleshooting guides, RCAs, and postmortems; mentor support staff; identify recurring failure patterns; communicate with customers; and participate in an application-layer on-call rotation.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Design, implement, optimize, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms operating at massive scale. Integrate open-source technologies, improve platform reliability, provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support. The role requires expertise managing large Kubernetes clusters, observability tools, Linux environments, public clouds, custom data centers, and AI-enabled workflow improvements.

Own complex software systems and critical workflows end-to-end while ensuring reliability, performance, security, and maintainability. Lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, manage incident response, improve system health, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role requires extensive Ruby on Rails, AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure, Linux production operations, frontend development, relational databases, testing, CI/CD, and observability experience.

Build and maintain NetBox Enterprise, an on-premises product suite. Responsibilities include architecting Kubernetes-based high-availability solutions, extending Kubernetes operators, developing lifecycle management tools, building CI/CD pipelines, managing releases, writing Rust and Python, supporting integration testing, documenting deployment practices, and resolving customer deployment and operational issues.

Design, build, monitor, and maintain large-scale Linux infrastructure supporting distributed S3-compatible object storage across multi-cloud environments. Responsibilities include kernel and storage optimization, network and hardware troubleshooting, automation with Chef or Ansible, observability, forecasting capacity, technical leadership, project coordination, mentoring, documentation, and on-call support.

Manage Azure cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, load balancing, DNS, security, monitoring, and logging. Build CI/CD pipelines and secure Linux machine images, implement Infrastructure as Code, troubleshoot deployments, and improve application reliability. This two-month contractor engagement requires independent delivery of production-quality infrastructure, with opportunities to support multi-cloud environments and confidential computing.

Maintain and support platform environments across the software development lifecycle. Configure monitoring, alerting, and self-healing solutions; troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues with developers and testers; maintain technical documentation; design scalable architectural solutions; and mentor junior engineers. The role requires cloud, Kubernetes, operating system, database, scripting, configuration management, .NET, and AI/ML automation expertise.

Own and develop HPC/GPU infrastructure for R&D and customer deployments. Design cross-platform CI/CD pipelines, manage on-premise and cloud Kubernetes clusters with GPU passthrough and MIG, configure self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, and maintain DockerHub registries. Assemble and tune physical GPU servers, manage PCIe topology and hardware constraints, and maintain compatibility across NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, and ROCm versions. Provide customer-facing technical assistance for GPU container deployments.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms at massive scale. Ensure high reliability, integrate open-source observability tools, provide technical direction, operate large Linux environments across cloud and data centers, handle on-call duties, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure software (primarily in Go) to manage VMs across global data centers. Collaborate on product requirements, participate in code reviews, optimize performance and reliability, contribute to architecture decisions, and stay current with industry trends.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.