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Backend Software Developer roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a relevant bachelor's degree. Australian engineers have a real edge here: no lottery, no annual cap, and the ability to renew indefinitely while you build your U.S. career. Your degree field needs to align with your backend stack and responsibilities.
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OpenAI’s API Multicloud team is responsible for extending OpenAI’s API platform into strategic cloud environments, starting with AWS. The team’s mission is to distribute OpenAI’s API broadly and safely by enabling key API technologies in cloud-native environments, in close partnership with Amazon and internal teams across Codex, Research, Safety Systems, and Applied.
The team is focused on bringing core developer and enterprise capabilities into cloud-native environments, including cloud-hosted Codex, model customization/post-training as a service, and new stateful runtime environments for agentic workloads. This work sits at the intersection of production ML systems, developer platforms, model behavior, and large-scale infrastructure.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for a backend engineer who can quickly understand OpenAI’s models, products, and systems, then adapt first-party deployments for other cloud platforms. You’ll build backend services, APIs, SDK integrations, authentication flows, and cloud service infrastructure that let developers use OpenAI capabilities in the cloud environments where they already build. This role involves working across teams, sometimes embedded with partner product groups, to ship products quickly and across multiple platforms at the same time. It’s a strong fit for engineers who have built developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, communicate clearly across technical boundaries, and can shape architectures that support different deployment models; experience building cloud services is a strong plus.
In this role, you will:
- Build backend and infrastructure systems that extend OpenAI’s API platform into cloud-native environments, like AWS.
- Design and ship cloud-contained products that allow customers to use OpenAI capabilities while keeping workloads and data within cloud environments.
- Help stand up cloud-hosted Codex experiences powered by the OpenAI Responses API.
- Build the infrastructure and runtime abstractions for a stateful, cloud-optimized agentic platform.
- Partner closely with external cloud partners as well as internal teams across Codex, Research, and Safety Systems to translate emerging capabilities into production-ready systems.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of the services underpinning these products.
- Help shape the technical direction of a new and growing team as it scales from an early core group into a larger engineering organization.
YOUR BACKGROUND MIGHT LOOK SOMETHING LIKE:
- 7+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies.
- Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts.
- Experience building developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, excellent technical communication, and the ability to shape architectures that support different deployment models. Experience building cloud services is a strong plus.
- Experience turning ambiguous, fast-moving technical problems into pragmatic, durable systems.
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure primitives and production service ownership.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with platform, research, safety, or external partner teams is a plus.
- Interest in AI infrastructure, agentic systems, and developer platforms.
- Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required).
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing, product-driven companies by effectively navigating loosely defined tasks and managing competing priorities or deadlines.
ABOUT OPENAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $293K – $385K + Offers Equity
ABOUT THE TEAM
OpenAI’s API Multicloud team is responsible for extending OpenAI’s API platform into strategic cloud environments, starting with AWS. The team’s mission is to distribute OpenAI’s API broadly and safely by enabling key API technologies in cloud-native environments, in close partnership with Amazon and internal teams across Codex, Research, Safety Systems, and Applied.
The team is focused on bringing core developer and enterprise capabilities into cloud-native environments, including cloud-hosted Codex, model customization/post-training as a service, and new stateful runtime environments for agentic workloads. This work sits at the intersection of production ML systems, developer platforms, model behavior, and large-scale infrastructure.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for a backend engineer who can quickly understand OpenAI’s models, products, and systems, then adapt first-party deployments for other cloud platforms. You’ll build backend services, APIs, SDK integrations, authentication flows, and cloud service infrastructure that let developers use OpenAI capabilities in the cloud environments where they already build. This role involves working across teams, sometimes embedded with partner product groups, to ship products quickly and across multiple platforms at the same time. It’s a strong fit for engineers who have built developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, communicate clearly across technical boundaries, and can shape architectures that support different deployment models; experience building cloud services is a strong plus.
In this role, you will:
- Build backend and infrastructure systems that extend OpenAI’s API platform into cloud-native environments, like AWS.
- Design and ship cloud-contained products that allow customers to use OpenAI capabilities while keeping workloads and data within cloud environments.
- Help stand up cloud-hosted Codex experiences powered by the OpenAI Responses API.
- Build the infrastructure and runtime abstractions for a stateful, cloud-optimized agentic platform.
- Partner closely with external cloud partners as well as internal teams across Codex, Research, and Safety Systems to translate emerging capabilities into production-ready systems.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of the services underpinning these products.
- Help shape the technical direction of a new and growing team as it scales from an early core group into a larger engineering organization.
YOUR BACKGROUND MIGHT LOOK SOMETHING LIKE:
- 7+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies.
- Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts.
- Experience building developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, excellent technical communication, and the ability to shape architectures that support different deployment models. Experience building cloud services is a strong plus.
- Experience turning ambiguous, fast-moving technical problems into pragmatic, durable systems.
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure primitives and production service ownership.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with platform, research, safety, or external partner teams is a plus.
- Interest in AI infrastructure, agentic systems, and developer platforms.
- Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required).
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing, product-driven companies by effectively navigating loosely defined tasks and managing competing priorities or deadlines.
ABOUT OPENAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $293K – $385K + Offers Equity
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Backend Software Developer
Align your degree to your backend stack
Your E-3 visa petition lives or dies on the degree-to-role match. A Computer Science or Software Engineering degree pairs cleanly, but a Mathematics or IT degree can work if your job duties align. Pull your official transcripts before you start applying.
Target employers with active LCA filings
Search the DOL's OFLC disclosure data to identify companies that have filed Labor Condition Applications for software developer roles. Employers already familiar with LCA certification move faster and make fewer errors when sponsoring your E-3.
Flag your E-3 eligibility early in outreach
Many U.S. hiring managers conflate Australian sponsorship with H-1B lottery risk. Tell them upfront you're eligible for the E-3, which has no lottery and a straightforward employer filing process. It removes the single biggest objection before the interview.
Get your Australian credentials assessed before offers
A three-year Australian bachelor's degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree for E-3 purposes, but consular officers sometimes request documentation. Prepare a credentials assessment and your academic transcripts so you're not scrambling post-offer.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the paperwork
Once you have an offer, your employer needs a certified LCA before your consulate appointment can proceed. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service handles the LCA submission, DS-160, and consulate preparation end-to-end, so neither you nor your employer stalls in the process.
Confirm your employer's E-Verify enrollment before signing
Not all U.S. employers are enrolled in E-Verify, and some states require enrollment before hiring foreign nationals. Ask HR directly during the offer stage so your start date isn't delayed by a compliance gap your employer didn't know existed.
E-3 Visa Backend Software Developer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Backend Software Developer jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search Backend Software Developer roles filtered specifically for E-3 visa sponsorship. Most general job boards don't distinguish between visa types, so you end up cold-pitching employers who have never sponsored an Australian worker. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where employers are already open to the E-3 process, which cuts your job search time significantly.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Backend Software Developer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided your job duties require the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field. Backend development roles that specify a Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical degree in the job requirements meet this threshold. Roles that list a degree as 'preferred' rather than 'required' can create complications at the consulate, so review the job description carefully before accepting an offer.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Backend Software Developer roles?
For Australians, the E-3 is a materially better path for backend development work. The H-1B has an 85,000-slot annual cap with a lottery that selected roughly one in five registrants in recent years, meaning most applicants simply don't get in. The E-3 has a 10,500 annual allocation that has never been exhausted, no lottery, and the employer filing process is simpler. You apply directly at a U.S. consulate in Australia after your employer files a Labor Condition Application with the DOL.
Can I change employers or switch to a contract role while on an E-3?
Changing employers requires your new employer to file a fresh Labor Condition Application and obtain a new certified LCA before you begin work. Contracting arrangements can qualify, but the contracting company must be your legal employer of record and must file the LCA. You cannot work for a client directly as a self-employed contractor on an E-3, as the visa requires a qualifying employer-employee relationship.