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Senior Software Engineer

Marathon Petroleum Corporation
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Aug 2026

About the role

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At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced, and strategic Senior Software Engineer to be a leader within our Software Development Team in the Product Engineering Operations organization. The ideal candidate will possess a robust background in Software Development, strong Azure skills, DevSecOps knowledge, and a deep understanding of application security best practices. Additionally, excellent leadership and strong communication skills are essential. This role demands an influencer who champions Software Development with best practices, continuous improvement, AI, and automation. The successful candidate will drive innovation within the department and ensure our development processes are efficient, secure, and modern.

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leads efforts from end-to-end through delegation, review, and driving results holistically; leads medium complexity features from technical design through completion.
  • Executes a defined software engineering roadmap, contributing to the organization's engineering and technology strategy.
  • Performs coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process in projects with moderate to high complexity under limited or no supervision.
  • Identifies and recommends improvements to the software development lifecycle and best practices in agile engineering.
  • Conducts demos of application features and designs features to support automated testability. Conducts research, design and prototyping and experience on a cross-functional team.
  • Works with users to translate designs and solution architecture into design specifications.
  • Organizes the delivery of high-quality, innovative solution or deliverables, setting effort estimates and continuously collaborating and updating the specifications, in line with user requirements.
  • Coordinates and implements new architecture, standards, methods and logic for enterprise software in accordance with business strategies and specifications.
  • Partners with architecture organization to efficiently and effectively design, modernize, and implement applications.
  • Ensures proper documentation of software design and works with business partners to design and implement solutions to meet architecture standards.
  • Champions a continuous improvement mindset, usage of AI, and automation of software engineering processes.
  • Drives process excellence and innovative Software Engineering by empowering others, collaborating, taking appropriate risks, and making timely decisions within scope of responsibility.
  • Mentors less experienced team members and accelerates software engineering maturity by modeling and encouraging ongoing learning and self-development.

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field, or equivalent experience required.
  • Five (5) or more years of relevant IT experience.
  • Hands-on experience developing full-stack solutions using Microsoft technologies such as C#, Blazor, .NET Core, SQL Server, Azure, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • Strong analytical thinking and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
  • Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, release management processes, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) and Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) certifications are highly desirable.

Skills

  • Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
  • Application Security – Refers to the measures and practices implemented to protect software applications from security threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Cloud Computing - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
  • Continuous Improvement - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale
  • Debugging - The process of finding and resolving bugs within computer programs, software, or systems.
  • DevSecOps - A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software develop

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