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