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At a glance
Chevron is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Houston, TX. It is a full-time role in Software & IT, asking for at least 7 years of experience, first listed on November 1. The description mentions CI/CD, Git, Azure, Docker and Kubernetes. Chevron has 34 other openings in the US, 14 of them in Houston, TX. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 74 Software & IT openings in Houston, TX today; the typical one asks for 8 years and advertises about $202,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Chevron has not published pay for this job, or we could not find it in the advert. Of the 534 software & IT jobs in Texas on USA Jobs 24, 62% show pay, and the typical yearly midpoint among them is $180,000. That gives you a fair starting point when the subject comes up.
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About hiring at Chevron
Chevron has 35 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 9 states. Most are in software & IT (6), engineering & mfg (4) and risk & legal (4). The biggest locations are Houston, TX (15), Pasadena, TX (3) and San Ramon, CA (3). None of them is fully remote, 11% are open to entry-level candidates and 11% show pay. We collect Chevron's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Workday), never from job boards or agencies.
The employer's advert
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Total Number of Openings
1Chevron 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.
U.S. Regulatory notice:
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 emplymnt@chevron.com.
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