Top Remote Ruby Jobs in Houston, TX

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, build, operate, and scale GitLab Orbit backend services in Rust across distributed cloud-native environments. Improve Kubernetes deployments, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, incident readiness, multi-tenant isolation, data workflows, graph query capabilities, indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, and API/MCP surfaces. Own technical designs through rollout while collaborating asynchronously with infrastructure, security, AI, data, delivery, and SRE teams.

Build and maintain cloud-based development, build, testing, deployment, and production infrastructure. Own platform systems using Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD tools. Collaborate with engineers on a you-build-it-you-run-it platform, troubleshoot incidents, lead postmortems, address root causes, and automate improvements to enhance reliability, performance, and stability.

Lead Apollo’s Rep Experience engineering team building prospecting, account management, task orchestration, dashboards, and AI-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, architecture, planning, coding mentorship, hiring, people management, on-call sustainability, estimation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, GTM, and engineering leadership.

Build and operate reliable, scalable production infrastructure for GitLab’s user-facing services. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure automation and tooling, managing Kubernetes deployments, maintaining infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD and GitOps, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production systems, and documenting operational practices. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires strong software engineering, cloud, reliability, and asynchronous collaboration skills.

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.

Build, test, ship, and operate production backend features with minimal guidance. Design APIs, background jobs, integrations, data models, migrations, and bounded services while maintaining security, performance, observability, and reliability. Review code, improve automated testing, investigate production issues, address technical debt, participate in operational support, and collaborate asynchronously with product, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams. Use AI coding tools responsibly by validating and correcting generated output.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Build and operate AWS GovCloud data infrastructure across development, preproduction, and production environments. Establish PostgreSQL platforms, infrastructure-as-code with Chef, BI infrastructure, identity integrations, monitoring, observability, CI/CD, and disaster recovery. Support data pipelines, troubleshoot incidents, optimize databases, and ensure FedRAMP and FISMA compliance. Collaborate with security, compliance, DevOps, and data engineering teams while delivering greenfield infrastructure from architecture through production.

Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Ruby on Rails. Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and write well-tested production code. Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data Engineering, and QA teams.

Leads architecture, design, and hands-on development for scalable backend APIs and interoperability services. Sets engineering standards, drives cross-team technical initiatives, mentors engineers, reviews code and designs, manages technical risks, and partners with engineering leadership on roadmaps. The role focuses on distributed systems, authentication, cloud SaaS, API integrations, and standards such as FHIR, while contributing production code and fostering collaboration.

Build and scale Ruby on Rails backend systems powering StackBlitz and Bolt.new. Responsibilities include improving application scalability, reliability, and performance; optimizing PostgreSQL and object storage; developing platform features and integrations; supporting developer infrastructure; and reviewing code. The role works across Rails and Node.js/TypeScript stacks in a globally distributed, remote team.

Designs and leads scalable, secure infrastructure across AWS multi-region environments. Responsibilities include Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, observability, reliability engineering, performance and cost optimization, incident response, infrastructure security, AI-enhanced workflows, and mentoring. The role requires improving established systems while building new platform components and supporting reliable application delivery.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Ruby on Rails applications, APIs, databases, integrations, and automated tests. Partner with product, engineering, project management, and business analysis teams to deliver documented requirements and end-to-end features. Monitor application performance, provide production and on-call support, and contribute to emerging technology initiatives. The role supports business-critical behavioral health workflows and systems that improve access to care.

Lead client onboarding and end-to-end integrations for fraud and compliance products. Translate technical and business requirements into scalable solutions, manage implementation timelines and risks, support customers, maintain API and SDK documentation, analyze SQL and JSON data, build internal automation tools, and provide product feedback to internal teams.

Operate and improve AWS production infrastructure, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes workloads, observability, CI/CD, and incident response. The role investigates root causes, strengthens application resilience, automates operational tasks, supports database and performance reliability, maintains documentation, and participates in 24/7 on-call rotations. The engineer owns scoped reliability projects and collaborates with product engineering teams on resilient, secure, and compliant systems.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

As a Fullstack Engineer, you'll design, build, and operate web applications, collaborating with product teams and mentoring peers while ensuring best practices in coding and system architecture.

Provide advanced technical support for large MongoDB customers across the full MongoDB ecosystem (server, drivers, Atlas, Cloud Manager). Troubleshoot performance, architecture, recovery, security and storage issues end-to-end, develop support tools, mentor new hires, and liaise with product and engineering teams. Work EST shifts with a weekend shift expectation after ramp and participate in occasional off-hours coverage or regional events.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Leads two infrastructure and engineering systems squads, owning roadmap, prioritization, delivery, operational health, hiring, mentoring, and vendor budgets. Ships production code, manages on-call performance, oversees audits and automation, and partners across engineering and business functions. Requires substantial software engineering and people-management experience, hands-on production development across cloud or application technologies, strong CI/CD and observability knowledge, security awareness, and experience directing AI agents in production workflows.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate reusable enterprise integrations using Workato and modern APIs. Partner with engineering teams, define data flows and security models, create custom connectors and integration templates, and ensure production observability, testing, documentation, and support. Translate partner needs into product requirements, support sales proofs of concept, evaluate agent integration patterns, and use AI coding tools while validating security, correctness, and maintainability.

Lead customer migrations from self-managed GitLab to GitLab Dedicated using GitLab Geo. Plan replication, cutovers, network connectivity, and post-migration validation while debugging synchronization issues. Build repeatable automation, runbooks, and infrastructure validation using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Manage multiple customer engagements, advise stakeholders, communicate technical plans, and collaborate with Professional Services, Product, and Engineering teams.

Build and maintain automation, integrations, file-processing tools, migrations, and other software that reduces operational toil. Investigate root causes, resolve implementation and escalation issues, develop reusable solutions, and support systems through on-call participation. Partner with commercial, product, and engineering teams while using Ruby on Rails, APIs, workflow automation platforms, and AI-assisted development. The role also involves debugging, optimization, code quality, and ramping onto unfamiliar systems.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop software using Ruby, Javascript, and support AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining and building applications, contributing to high-end software releases, and mentoring other engineers.