Senior Software Engineer

Chevron Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Houston to lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software solutions across the Oil & Gas value stream. The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, cyber resiliency, performance, and scalable user experiences for various personas.

The candidate will mentor teams, define technical direction, and ensure best practices in testing, observability, and integration while leveraging Chevron technology standards and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7–10 years of proven experience as a software developer with a portfolio of complex solutions.
• Proficiency in standard software development frameworks and security best practices.
• Experience with design patterns to improve code quality, security, and scalability.
• Familiarity with Git version control and Azure cloud services.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex, innovative software solutions from design to deployment and support.
• Provide technical leadership at both tactical and strategic levels.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to align on priorities.
• Represent team in cross-team architectural discussions and decision-making.
• Mentor other software engineers and promote best practices in testing, modularity, and observability.
• Develop data engineering, data integration and data management tools and practices.

Skills

Programming fundamentals

Software architecture

Git

Azure

Communication

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Azure App Services

Azure Functions

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview:

The senior software engineer role involves in the developing, testing, and maintaining software solutions that enable complex business processes and workflows across the Oil & Gas value stream. Responsibilities include leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and develop, deploy and operate software and integrations, ensuring cyber resiliency, optimal performance and scalability. The position also focuses on creating responsive, high-quality user experiences for all targeted personas.

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

• Consistently delivers complex, innovative and complete solutions, driving them through design, planning, development, deployment and support that simplify business processes and workflows to drive business value


• Provide technical leadership both tactical (day to day activities) and strategic (big picture, vision)


• Work has high senior IT and business leadership visibility


• Represent team, priorities, architectures in cross-team architectural discussions and decision-making


• Partner with PMs/POs in forming vision, direction and priorities


• Advocate solid software development practices in the team covering testing, modularity, scalability, observability and integration


• Deliver results in collaboration with other software engineering and technical teams


• Constructively and positively influence own and other teams/organizations direction


• Design and develop data engineering, data integration and data management practices and tools


• Develop software solution leveraging established Chevron technology standards and collaborate with internal partners to develop new technology standards as needs arise


• Maintain working knowledge of the latest software engineering tools and practices for continuous integration, unit tests, static and dynamic profiling, code coverage, code analysis, and integration tests


• Technical mentor for the team, enabling development and growth of other software engineers across the company

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) and able to demonstrate high proficiency in programming fundamentals


• Between 7-10 years of proven working experience as a software developer with a strong portfolio of complex software and integration solutions


• Skilled in standard software development frameworks


• Experience implementing security best practices in software engineering


• Skilled in recognizing, applying, and implementing design patterns and best practices for software engineering to enhance code quality, security, maintainability, and scalability


• Skilled with version control systems (e.g., Git)


• Skilled with Microsoft stacks including Azure App Services, Azure Functions, and Azure DevOps


• Excellent communication and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment


• Ability to adapt to new technologies and changing business requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with automated testing


• Knowledge and experience applying multiple levels of testing (Unit, Integration, and End to End)


• Experience with monitoring & logging application performance in cloud environments


• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)


• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployments

Relocation Options:

Relocation will not be considered

International Considerations:

Expatriate assignments will not be considered

Visa Sponsorship:

Chevron regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Chevron is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin or ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, reproductive health decision-making, military or veteran status, political preference, marital status, citizenship, genetic information or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation, please email us at [e-mail].

Chevron participates in E-Verify in certain locations as required by law.

Chevron Corporation:

Chevron Corporation is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies. Through its subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide, the company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemicals and additives; generates power; and develops and deploys technologies that enhance business value in every aspect of the company's operations. Chevron is based in Houston, Texas. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.