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Head of Engineering roles in the U.S. qualify as E-3 visa specialty occupations, and Australian engineers with the right leadership credentials can secure sponsorship without entering any lottery. The E-3's unlimited renewal cycle means you can build a long-term engineering career stateside, provided each employer files a certified Labor Condition Application before your consulate appointment.
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About The Team
Enterprise Security builds and operates the security capabilities that protect USDS JV's enterprise environments and enable Cyber Defense teams to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to threats. We bring together software engineering, security engineering, and production operations to turn security requirements into reliable, scalable services. Our work spans security telemetry and analytics, host and network defense, threat-intelligence integration, response automation, and the platforms supporting investigations. We partner with security operations, threat detection and response, infrastructure, identity, gateway, and data teams to strengthen defenses across the enterprise. Our focus is not simply deploying security tools: it is engineering an integrated defense capability with dependable coverage, actionable data, and sustainable operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the End-to-End Lifecycle: Direct the design, development, integration, deployment, and operation of the Cyber Defense platform portfolio. Scope includes security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR), case management, threat-intelligence integrations, host and network security tooling, and supporting capabilities.
- Define an Integrated Security Platforms: Establish how telemetry, analytics, security controls, and response workflows work together. Set technical standards, resolve architectural gaps, and make build-versus-buy decisions that balance defensive effectiveness, reliability, cost, and long-term maintainability.
- Engineer Reliable Security Data and Automation: Build and improve telemetry ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and service integrations. Partner with detection engineers, threat hunters, and incident responders to translate operational needs into tested platform features and safe, auditable automation.
- Own Production Reliability and Operations: Establish service-level objectives, monitoring, capacity planning, on-call coverage, runbooks, recovery procedures, and disciplined change management. Lead restoration of owned services during production incidents and drive post-incident improvements that eliminate recurring failures and reduce operational toil.
- Continuously Improve Defensive Effectiveness: Use threat intelligence, adversary techniques, control testing, and incident findings to prioritize engineering improvements. Close persistent coverage and control gaps with durable solutions rather than repeated manual remediation.
- Orchestrate Cross-Functional Delivery: Coordinate dependencies and shared control boundaries with Cyber Defense, infrastructure, identity, gateway, privacy, and compliance partners. Establish clear service ownership and support expectations, and provide evidence of control effectiveness for the systems your team owns.
- Build a High-Performing Team. Set the Technical Vision and Roadmap
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading software or security engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, developing technical leaders, and delivering complex initiatives across multiple teams.
- A track record of defining security architecture and department-level technical plans, or plans of comparable scope, and owning the delivery and ongoing production operation of enterprise-scale security platforms.
- Strong technical depth in security data platforms or defensive tooling, with experience integrating capabilities such as SIEM, SOAR, host or network defense, threat intelligence, or investigation workflows.
- Strong software engineering judgment across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, secure development practices, and automated testing, with the ability to guide architecture and implementation decisions.
- Experience establishing reliable service operations, including observability, incident management, on-call practices, recovery planning, and measurable service objectives.
- Ability to translate security risks and business requirements into prioritized engineering plans, influence partners across organizational boundaries, and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience leading a portfolio of interconnected security services and developing technical leads or front-line engineering managers.
- Experience with high-volume security telemetry, event correlation, detection-platform enablement, automated response workflows, and investigation or case-management systems.
- Experience engineering or operating host intrusion detection, network traffic analysis, web application firewall, or data-loss-prevention capabilities.
- Experience operating security services in large-scale cloud or hybrid environments, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or AWS.
- Experience using adversary-informed testing, threat modeling, and incident findings to improve security architecture and validate defensive coverage.
- Experience consolidating fragmented tools, reducing operational toil, managing technology dependencies, and improving the cost and maintainability of security services.
- Experience supporting privacy-sensitive environments and maintaining auditable controls and operational evidence.
ABOUT USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
WHY JOIN US
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
JOB INFORMATION
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually)
- Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $231660 - $554400 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
Responsibilities
About The Team
Enterprise Security builds and operates the security capabilities that protect USDS JV's enterprise environments and enable Cyber Defense teams to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to threats. We bring together software engineering, security engineering, and production operations to turn security requirements into reliable, scalable services. Our work spans security telemetry and analytics, host and network defense, threat-intelligence integration, response automation, and the platforms supporting investigations. We partner with security operations, threat detection and response, infrastructure, identity, gateway, and data teams to strengthen defenses across the enterprise. Our focus is not simply deploying security tools: it is engineering an integrated defense capability with dependable coverage, actionable data, and sustainable operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the End-to-End Lifecycle: Direct the design, development, integration, deployment, and operation of the Cyber Defense platform portfolio. Scope includes security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR), case management, threat-intelligence integrations, host and network security tooling, and supporting capabilities.
- Define an Integrated Security Platforms: Establish how telemetry, analytics, security controls, and response workflows work together. Set technical standards, resolve architectural gaps, and make build-versus-buy decisions that balance defensive effectiveness, reliability, cost, and long-term maintainability.
- Engineer Reliable Security Data and Automation: Build and improve telemetry ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and service integrations. Partner with detection engineers, threat hunters, and incident responders to translate operational needs into tested platform features and safe, auditable automation.
- Own Production Reliability and Operations: Establish service-level objectives, monitoring, capacity planning, on-call coverage, runbooks, recovery procedures, and disciplined change management. Lead restoration of owned services during production incidents and drive post-incident improvements that eliminate recurring failures and reduce operational toil.
- Continuously Improve Defensive Effectiveness: Use threat intelligence, adversary techniques, control testing, and incident findings to prioritize engineering improvements. Close persistent coverage and control gaps with durable solutions rather than repeated manual remediation.
- Orchestrate Cross-Functional Delivery: Coordinate dependencies and shared control boundaries with Cyber Defense, infrastructure, identity, gateway, privacy, and compliance partners. Establish clear service ownership and support expectations, and provide evidence of control effectiveness for the systems your team owns.
- Build a High-Performing Team. Set the Technical Vision and Roadmap
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading software or security engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, developing technical leaders, and delivering complex initiatives across multiple teams.
- A track record of defining security architecture and department-level technical plans, or plans of comparable scope, and owning the delivery and ongoing production operation of enterprise-scale security platforms.
- Strong technical depth in security data platforms or defensive tooling, with experience integrating capabilities such as SIEM, SOAR, host or network defense, threat intelligence, or investigation workflows.
- Strong software engineering judgment across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, secure development practices, and automated testing, with the ability to guide architecture and implementation decisions.
- Experience establishing reliable service operations, including observability, incident management, on-call practices, recovery planning, and measurable service objectives.
- Ability to translate security risks and business requirements into prioritized engineering plans, influence partners across organizational boundaries, and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience leading a portfolio of interconnected security services and developing technical leads or front-line engineering managers.
- Experience with high-volume security telemetry, event correlation, detection-platform enablement, automated response workflows, and investigation or case-management systems.
- Experience engineering or operating host intrusion detection, network traffic analysis, web application firewall, or data-loss-prevention capabilities.
- Experience operating security services in large-scale cloud or hybrid environments, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or AWS.
- Experience using adversary-informed testing, threat modeling, and incident findings to improve security architecture and validate defensive coverage.
- Experience consolidating fragmented tools, reducing operational toil, managing technology dependencies, and improving the cost and maintainability of security services.
- Experience supporting privacy-sensitive environments and maintaining auditable controls and operational evidence.
ABOUT USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
WHY JOIN US
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
JOB INFORMATION
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually)
- Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $231660 - $554400 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
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Document your engineering leadership credentials thoroughly
U.S. consular officers assess whether your degree field aligns with the Head of Engineering role. Gather transcripts, your Australian bachelor's or higher degree certificate, and any professional engineering registrations before you start applying.
Target employers with existing LCA filing history
Companies that have certified Labor Condition Applications with the DOL for senior engineering roles already understand the E-3 process. Prioritise organisations in tech, infrastructure, and manufacturing where engineering leadership headcount is large enough to normalise sponsorship.
Clarify the specialty occupation requirement early in interviews
Some hiring managers assume any bachelor's degree satisfies the E-3's specialty occupation test. Confirm with HR that the Head of Engineering role requires a degree specifically in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, not just any degree.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the LCA and visa paperwork
Once you have a signed offer, Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the DOL Labor Condition Application certification and prepares your complete consulate packet, reducing the administrative burden on both you and your new employer.
Negotiate an employment start date that accounts for LCA processing
The DOL typically certifies an LCA within seven business days, but consulate appointment availability in Sydney, Melbourne, or Perth can add two to six weeks. Build that window into your offer negotiation so your start date is realistic.
Prepare for consulate questions about your direct reports and scope
E-3 interviews for senior leadership roles often probe whether the position genuinely requires a specialised degree. Bring an org chart, a role-specific job description, and evidence linking your engineering qualifications to the technical responsibilities you will oversee.
E-3 Visa Head Of Engineering: Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find Head of Engineering jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals seeking U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. It surfaces Head of Engineering positions at employers already familiar with the visa process, so you spend less time educating hiring teams about the LCA requirement and more time progressing through interviews.
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 Head of Engineering role qualify as a specialty occupation under the E-3?
Yes, provided the position genuinely requires at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a directly related technical field. Roles where the degree requirement is broad or optional may not meet the specialty occupation standard, so review the job description carefully and confirm with the employer before proceeding.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Head of Engineering candidates?
The E-3 has a 10,500-slot annual allocation that has never been fully used, so there is no lottery. H-1B visa registrants for the same role enter a random selection process that currently selects roughly one in four applicants. The E-3 also allows indefinite two-year renewals with the same or a new employer, making it a more predictable path for long-term engineering leadership careers in the U.S.
Can I change employers as a Head of Engineering on an E-3 visa?
You can change employers, but the new company must file a fresh Labor Condition Application with the DOL and you will need to attend a new consulate appointment before starting work with them. There is no portability provision equivalent to H-1B's AC21 rule, so plan the transition timeline carefully and avoid resigning before your new LCA is certified.