Top Remote Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will improve system reliability and efficiency, develop standards and tooling, and collaborate with engineering teams to optimize workflows and cloud infrastructure.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will develop and support distributed storage services, ensuring reliability and operational safety, with a focus on automation and efficiency.

Maintain and optimize SaaS production and demo environments, respond to and resolve incidents, manage Jira-based incident workflows, use Dynatrace and observability tools for troubleshooting, automate operational tasks, enforce security best practices, document runbooks in Confluence, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate cross-team to improve reliability and performance.

Technical lead for Redfin's production database and storage systems: define strategy, architect and implement cloud database/storage (self-managed and AWS managed), ensure reliability, observability, scalability, security, participate in DR planning and on-call rotation, lead incident resolution and root cause analysis, mentor engineers, and evangelize AI code-generation and infrastructure-as-code best practices.

Lead development of AI-assisted reliability tooling, own incident response end-to-end, improve observability and SLO/SLI frameworks, scale single-tenant SaaS operations, mentor engineers, and reduce recurring operational toil through engineering and automation.

Lead and mentor a DevOps team to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, IaC, container orchestration, monitoring, security controls, disaster recovery, and on-call support to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

Manage, maintain, and improve secure government cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure Gov/Azure GCC High, AWS GovCloud, GCP). Provide 24x7 operational support, incident/change management, advanced troubleshooting, compliance with FedRAMP/NIST/DISA/CIS standards, automation/IaC development, capacity and performance management, and technical guidance to improve architecture, security, and service delivery.

Operate and monitor MongoDB Atlas infrastructure, troubleshoot production incidents, automate monitoring and remediation, collaborate globally to reduce MTTR, participate in on-call rotations and second-shift weekend schedules, and support FedRAMP government environments.

Support U.S. government customers running GitLab in highly secure, constrained environments. Troubleshoot deeply using Linux, GitLab internals, logs, and CI/CD, reproduce and fix edge-case defects, contribute documentation and internal tools, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to deliver durable solutions for FedRAMP, air-gapped, and classified deployments.

Ensure stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed AI platform by defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, building observability and reliability tooling, automating operational workflows, and partnering with engineering teams to reduce toil and improve production readiness.

This internship role focuses on SRE skills, requiring collaboration and problem-solving in dynamic environments for Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange team.

Operate at Staff-level to diagnose and resolve complex customer issues, contribute production-quality code to GitLab, drive AI adoption (Duo Agent Platform), and translate field learnings into durable product improvements, guidance, and thought leadership while coordinating cross-functional teams.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Lead a team of software engineers supporting critical retail-banking applications. Design and develop software solutions, provide technical guidance, review code and documentation, troubleshoot complex incidents, and apply SRE practices. Maintain on-call rotation for after-hours critical incidents. Use OpenShift, Hogan, Dynatrace, and Linux; collaborate on releases and modernize application delivery.

Own and administer the Redwood RunMyJobs platform, including scheduling, workflow orchestration, job dependencies, monitoring, troubleshooting, integrations, configuration, patching, and security. Develop automated batch workflows and support file transfers, APIs, CI/CD, cloud environments, and mainframe systems. Partner with architects, engineers, developers, and IT stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable automation solutions and improve operational processes.

The Software Quality Assurance Engineer will lead development activities, support feature completion, and drive non-functional requirements in a team focused on the 7750 Service Router.

Design production-style DevOps tasks covering CI/CD, containers, orchestration, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and incident response. Develop reproducible reference solutions with setup and validation instructions, evaluate AI-generated outputs, identify failures, provide precise corrections, and maintain high standards for correctness. Share structured feedback to improve future task design. The contract role requires at least 20 hours weekly and professional English proficiency.

Lead design, implementation, and security of AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation. Drive cost optimization, observability, and IaC standards (Terraform/CDK). Mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with product and science teams to build scalable, reliable cloud-native systems.

Lead QA activities for government-facing web applications: design and execute manual and automated tests, develop test plans/cases, perform API and integration testing, manage defects, integrate tests into CI/CD, validate deployments, mentor junior QA, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality releases.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

Design, build, and operate central observability platforms. Develop telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and events; enforce instrumentation standards; build scalable cloud-native ingestion and storage; optimize cost, performance, retention, and reliability; investigate incidents and drive root-cause analysis; and create dashboards, reports, and service-level monitoring frameworks.

The Back End Engineer will develop and maintain backend services and REST APIs for Healthcare.gov tools, ensuring performance, reliability and security while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable enterprise backend services, microservices, REST APIs, and integration layers. Build cloud-native applications, implement automated testing, support CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and contribute to architecture decisions. Review code, mentor junior developers, document APIs and operations, and collaborate with product, architecture, DevOps, QA, and global business teams.