Senior Software Engineer

Chevron Corp.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron Corp. in Houston is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop, test, and maintain software solutions that enable complex business processes across the Oil & Gas value stream.

You will lead cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and operate software and integrations, focusing on cyber resiliency, performance, and scalability, while delivering high-quality user experiences for targeted personas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 and strategic with high senior IT and business visibility.
• Represent team, priorities, architectures in cross-team 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; influence direction.
• Design and develop data engineering, data integration and data management practices and tools.
• Develop software solutions leveraging Chevron technology standards and collaborate to develop new standards as needed.
• Maintain knowledge of CI/CD, unit tests, profiling, code coverage, code analysis, and integration tests.
• Technical mentor for the team, enabling growth of other software engineers.

Skills

Software design

Security practices

Design patterns

Git

Azure cloud

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Azure App Services

Azure Functions

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Chevron is accepting online applications for the position Senior Software Engineer through Nov 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. (Central Time).

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 todrive 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 insoftware 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.

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