Senior Network Engineer: Lead RADIUS & Linux Ops, $125k-$190k

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

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.