Top Remote Python Jobs in Houston, TX

Backend-focused engineer to develop and own core CRM and finance services end-to-end. Work in a fast-growth scaleup environment, shipping with agentic AI-assisted workflows, maintaining production Python/FastAPI services, owning testing and quality, and optimizing developer tooling and automation.

Backend engineer to develop and own core CRM and finance services. Work in a fast-growth scaleup, ship quickly using agentic AI workflows, own testing and service quality, and optimize developer tooling and workflows.

Contribute to development by writing, testing, and maintaining code under senior guidance; participate in code reviews, standups, and sprint planning; debug and resolve application issues; collaborate remotely and continuously learn new tools and best practices.

Design, develop, and maintain backend and/or frontend features; own scoped projects from implementation through delivery; collaborate with distributed product and design teams; write clean, maintainable, well-tested code; participate in code reviews and engineering best practices.

Design and build AI-augmented test tooling and automated test infrastructure across mobile, web, and backend. Integrate testing into engineers' workflows (IDE, CI, monitoring, chatops), define quality gates, instrument AI usage and costs, ensure secure handling of PHI, and produce reusable libraries, documentation, and training to help teams adopt automated quality workflows.

Develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise web-based GIS applications, dashboards, APIs, and geospatial services. Integrate GIS with enterprise systems, support ArcGIS Enterprise, assist modernization to cloud, perform testing, troubleshooting, deployment, documentation, and user support within federal environments.

Build, support, and optimize scalable video streaming backend services using Node.js. Work on video processing pipelines, HLS/adaptive streaming, FFmpeg/codecs, event-driven data streams, APIs, and distributed microservices. Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve streaming quality at scale, supporting APAC hours.

Own and improve Clever's infrastructure, deployments, observability, incident response, and security controls. Drive infrastructure migrations, build safer release paths, strengthen monitoring and runbooks, support SOC2 readiness, and improve staging/local environments to reduce operational friction and improve reliability.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and gRPC APIs in Rust. Architect modular systems using Clean Architecture, CQRS, and event sourcing; implement actor-based concurrency, data access for relational/time-series/graph DBs, observability with Tracing/OpenTelemetry, and end-to-end testing. Collaborate in Agile teams, perform code reviews, communicate with clients, and operate services on Kubernetes when needed.

Own PoC-to-production technical adoption for Restate: run hands-on customer PoCs, lead Kubernetes/cloud production readiness, implement observability and networking/security integrations, create enablement assets, and participate in on-call escalation to ensure reliable deployments.

Build and maintain an in-house insurance rating engine using Python. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, design features, implement back-end and front-end components, analyze customer data for rating accuracy, debug data issues, and apply P&C insurance concepts to technical solutions.

The Lead Engineer will guide software engineering activities, focusing on designing, developing, and testing Configuration Tools while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with systems engineers and other teams.

Lead design, development, and verification of avionics tools; provide technical leadership, mentor teams, drive RCCA and Lean methods, collaborate cross-functionally, and develop/maintain software (primarily C# and Python) for commercial and military programs.

The Algorithm Engineer will maintain and improve core autonomy code, build validation pipelines, and collaborate with teams for efficient issue resolution in autonomous truck systems.

The Senior Software Engineer, Workflow Platforms will architect, build, and operate orchestration platforms for machine learning, data pipelines, and CI/CD at Bot Auto, ensuring reliability and efficiency.

Design and implement algorithms for motion planning and behavior in autonomous trucks, focusing on prediction, mapping, and validation processes.

Design and build full-stack features for Autonomous Traffic Control, develop responsive web interfaces, and integrate backend services with real-time data for autonomous vehicles.

Build and maintain end-to-end web applications powering sales and operations. Design tools for quoting, scheduling, and fulfillment, integrate AI into products, collaborate on UX, ship high-impact features, and contribute to architecture, deployment, and engineering culture.

Own and operate core corporate IT systems including identity, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, and automations. Administer AWS, ServiceNow, MDM, and SaaS integrations; build workflows, govern AI tools, handle Tier 3 incidents and on-call duties, and partner with Security, People, and Enterprise apps to ensure reliability, security, and compliance.

Develop, design, and maintain production software for autonomous mission management of a satellite constellation. Contribute to architecture, implement scalable algorithms in Python and Go, support production operations, on-call rotations, launches, and cross-team integration for automated constellation operations.

Design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based platform infrastructure for data processing. Improve pipeline automation, monitoring, security, and reliability. Lead CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Scalr), network design, and incident response; collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in on-call rotation. Integrate AI tools to streamline development and troubleshooting.

Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/Pulumi). Build and optimize Docker containers, CI/CD pipelines, container compute (EKS/GKE/ECS/Fargate/Cloud Run), serverless functions, networking, storage, and databases. Implement cloud security and compliance controls, automate operations with code (Go/Python/Node.js/Bash), and ensure monitoring and high uptime while working independently with cross-functional teams and clients.

Senior technical authority for IBM AIX and Power Systems architecture, engineering, migration, performance tuning, automation, and resiliency. Lead large-scale OS and hardware migrations, own lifecycle management, incident escalation/RCA, HA/DR design, and mentor L3 engineers while ensuring governance, compliance, and vendor coordination.

Design, build, and manage data pipelines, integrations, ML and rules-based classification, and applications. Collaborate with data scientists and cross-functional Scrum teams, drive technical strategy, innovate practices, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure, automation, and internal platform services (monitoring, logging, alerting). Expand Kubernetes environment, enable engineering teams via IaC, GitOps, and secure cloud-hosting practices while solving reliability and scalability challenges.