Network Engineer

Chevron; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron's San Diego headquarters is seeking a senior Network Engineer to own end-to-end infrastructure work, from Linux administration to on-call rotations.

The role blends hands-on engineering with mentoring, reviews, and a focus on reducing technical debt while delivering high-quality features.

If you thrive in a deadline-driven, forward-looking environment, this fully on-site position offers a competitive salary and a chance to shape critical networking services.

Qualifications

• Experience thriving in a deadline-driven setting like Chevron.
• Strong ability to translate feedback into actionable improvements.
• Clear articulation of complex topics for non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Guard the Hardware Troubleshooting codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch
• Trace a scrappy technology bug across three Linux Administration services to the one bad line
• Keep Chevron's Process Improvement dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Own a technology service end to end, from Linux Administration schema to on-call rotation
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
• Slice the question-everything technology monolith into RADIUS services San Diego, CA can deploy alone
• Ship the RADIUS plainspoken rewrite that pays down years of Chevron technical debt
• Deliver senior-quality features within the $125,000 - $190,000 Network Engineer mandate

Skills

Network Engineering

Linux Administration

Code Reviews

Mentoring

Communication

Job description

Code that ships to millions starts as a pull request on someone's screen, and at Chevron we want that someone to be our next Network Engineer. Rare is the senior opening that pairs $125,000 - $190,000 with the freedom to shape technology work the way this San Diego one does.

Key Responsibilities

• Guard the Hardware Troubleshooting codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch
• Trace a scrappy technology bug across three Linux Administration services to the one bad line
• Keep Chevron's Process Improvement dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Own a technology service end to end, from Linux Administration schema to on-call rotation
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
• Slice the question-everything technology monolith into RADIUS services San Diego, CA can deploy alone
• Ship the RADIUS plainspoken rewrite that pays down years of Chevron technical debt
• Deliver senior-quality features within the $125,000 - $190,000 Network Engineer mandate

What You'll Bring

• Experience thriving in a forward-thinking, deadline-driven setting like Chevron
• Demonstrated knack for making the feedback-driven feel manageable
• A point of view on Chevron's space, sharpened by your own reading
• A communication style that translates jargon back into plain English
• A quality-obsessed bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait

Our San Diego, CA headquarters is home to a hands-on group of builders, designers, and problem-solvers at Chevron. We keep the full-time workload sustainable so your best DNS work isn't your last gasp.

This senior role pays $125,000 - $190,000 and surrounds it with coaching, coverage, and hours that respect your weekends in CA.

We just reopened this Network Engineer req and are eager to meet new people.

Your background in Relationship Building could be exactly the missing piece here in San Diego.