E-3 Visa Site Reliability Engineer Jobs
Site Reliability Engineer roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations under DOL's software and systems engineering classifications. Australian SREs can secure employer sponsorship without entering an H-1B lottery, with visa periods renewable in two-year increments. Your degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field anchors the application.
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People at Apple don't just build products - they craft the kind of experiences that have revolutionised entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple's services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love. We are looking for passionate and talented Site Reliability Engineers to continue our focus on providing our customers the highest quality Apple Services experience. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work." If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that help millions of customers, this is the place for you!
The Observability SRE organisation is specifically tasked with enabling other teams to better understand their infrastructure and services, providing world-class observability capabilities. Keeping Apple services up and running 100% of the time is a challenging job. Accurately monitoring the health of every application and infrastructure that comprises the Apple ecosystem 100% of the time is an order of magnitude more challenging. As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability Team, you will champion the availability, performance, and scaling of customer-facing production services, ensuring customers worldwide experience seamless, lightning-fast, and uninterrupted service. Our monitoring, alerting, and visualisation platform analyses billions of metrics per minute and comprises the central nervous system of Apple's architecture. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering teams to design and build the next generation of cloud and systems monitoring infrastructure, focusing on automation, availability, performance, and efficiency at "reach every user on the planet" scale.
DESCRIPTION
Apple Services Engineering infrastructure is BIG. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers (including AliCloud regions serving China-mainland and global markets) and servicing hundreds of millions of users presents unique challenges. As an SRE at Apple, you'll solve these problems using data, teamwork, and your own expertise. SREs at Apple own the full infrastructure stack - from device driver performance debugging to content delivery network traffic management - our responsibilities are both broad and deep. ASE runs the majority of its systems on Linux, using a mix of open source, vendor-licensed, and internally developed tools for system configuration management, provisioning, software deployment, logging, and monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them.
Responsibilities
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Customer SLA/SLO Delivery: Own, monitor, and defend the availability, latency, and performance metrics (SLIs/SLOs) of customer-facing production services.
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Production Management: Maintain and optimise customer-serving production environments, including AliCloud services (ACK Kubernetes, ECS, Serverless, RDS) alongside Apple's own infrastructure.
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Global Traffic Routing: Manage external-facing networking, content delivery, and load balancing (SLB/ALB, Global Traffic Manager, AliCloud CDN) to ensure minimal latency for users worldwide.
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Deployment & CI/CD: Maintain zero-downtime deployment pipelines so new features ship safely and continuously without disrupting customer workflows. Spinnaker experience a plus.
-
Proactive Observability: Build customer-centric dashboards and alerting frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk (or similar Log Service) to catch and resolve user-facing issues before they generate support tickets.
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Scalability & Cost Optimisation: Implement automated scaling rules to handle peak customer traffic spikes efficiently while managing infrastructure spend.
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Incident Response: Drive incident response and management for production systems, conducting deep root-cause analysis across software, systems, automation, and process.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
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B.S. in Computer Science or a related field.
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Minimum 10+ years of industry experience (5+ years in an SRE/DevOps role supporting external, production-grade web services, APIs, or SaaS applications).
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Proven experience developing production-grade software in Python (scripting/automation proficiency in Python, and scripting in Bash, Go and Rust exposure a plus).
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Hands-on experience deploying and operating user-facing applications, with strong container orchestration experience (or equivalent Kubernetes experience).
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Solid experience using Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and version-controlled production environments. Pulumi experience a plus.
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Experience/knowledge with the Prometheus ecosystem.
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Strong sense of ownership and integrity, demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
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Experience and confidence around incident response and incident management.
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Acute drive to automate manual operations and improve them through repeated iteration.
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Comfortable with open-source configuration management and orchestration tools (Helm, Pulumi, Terraform, Spinnaker).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
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Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
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Experience managing client data persistence, backups, and failovers using cloud databases (RDS MySQL, PostgreSQL, or PolarDB).
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Demonstrated ability to investigate complex systemic/latent reliability issues cross-functionally.
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Prior on-call experience supporting large-scale, distributed systems.
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Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team.
PAY & BENEFITS
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $142,300 and $263,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
INTRODUCTION
People at Apple don't just build products - they craft the kind of experiences that have revolutionised entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple's services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love. We are looking for passionate and talented Site Reliability Engineers to continue our focus on providing our customers the highest quality Apple Services experience. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work." If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that help millions of customers, this is the place for you!
The Observability SRE organisation is specifically tasked with enabling other teams to better understand their infrastructure and services, providing world-class observability capabilities. Keeping Apple services up and running 100% of the time is a challenging job. Accurately monitoring the health of every application and infrastructure that comprises the Apple ecosystem 100% of the time is an order of magnitude more challenging. As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability Team, you will champion the availability, performance, and scaling of customer-facing production services, ensuring customers worldwide experience seamless, lightning-fast, and uninterrupted service. Our monitoring, alerting, and visualisation platform analyses billions of metrics per minute and comprises the central nervous system of Apple's architecture. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering teams to design and build the next generation of cloud and systems monitoring infrastructure, focusing on automation, availability, performance, and efficiency at "reach every user on the planet" scale.
DESCRIPTION
Apple Services Engineering infrastructure is BIG. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers (including AliCloud regions serving China-mainland and global markets) and servicing hundreds of millions of users presents unique challenges. As an SRE at Apple, you'll solve these problems using data, teamwork, and your own expertise. SREs at Apple own the full infrastructure stack - from device driver performance debugging to content delivery network traffic management - our responsibilities are both broad and deep. ASE runs the majority of its systems on Linux, using a mix of open source, vendor-licensed, and internally developed tools for system configuration management, provisioning, software deployment, logging, and monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them.
Responsibilities
-
Customer SLA/SLO Delivery: Own, monitor, and defend the availability, latency, and performance metrics (SLIs/SLOs) of customer-facing production services.
-
Production Management: Maintain and optimise customer-serving production environments, including AliCloud services (ACK Kubernetes, ECS, Serverless, RDS) alongside Apple's own infrastructure.
-
Global Traffic Routing: Manage external-facing networking, content delivery, and load balancing (SLB/ALB, Global Traffic Manager, AliCloud CDN) to ensure minimal latency for users worldwide.
-
Deployment & CI/CD: Maintain zero-downtime deployment pipelines so new features ship safely and continuously without disrupting customer workflows. Spinnaker experience a plus.
-
Proactive Observability: Build customer-centric dashboards and alerting frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk (or similar Log Service) to catch and resolve user-facing issues before they generate support tickets.
-
Scalability & Cost Optimisation: Implement automated scaling rules to handle peak customer traffic spikes efficiently while managing infrastructure spend.
-
Incident Response: Drive incident response and management for production systems, conducting deep root-cause analysis across software, systems, automation, and process.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
-
B.S. in Computer Science or a related field.
-
Minimum 10+ years of industry experience (5+ years in an SRE/DevOps role supporting external, production-grade web services, APIs, or SaaS applications).
-
Proven experience developing production-grade software in Python (scripting/automation proficiency in Python, and scripting in Bash, Go and Rust exposure a plus).
-
Hands-on experience deploying and operating user-facing applications, with strong container orchestration experience (or equivalent Kubernetes experience).
-
Solid experience using Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and version-controlled production environments. Pulumi experience a plus.
-
Experience/knowledge with the Prometheus ecosystem.
-
Strong sense of ownership and integrity, demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
-
Experience and confidence around incident response and incident management.
-
Acute drive to automate manual operations and improve them through repeated iteration.
-
Comfortable with open-source configuration management and orchestration tools (Helm, Pulumi, Terraform, Spinnaker).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
-
Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
-
Experience managing client data persistence, backups, and failovers using cloud databases (RDS MySQL, PostgreSQL, or PolarDB).
-
Demonstrated ability to investigate complex systemic/latent reliability issues cross-functionally.
-
Prior on-call experience supporting large-scale, distributed systems.
-
Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team.
PAY & BENEFITS
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $142,300 and $263,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Site Reliability Engineer
Frame your CV around U.S. SRE conventions
Australian CVs often emphasise tenure over measurable outcomes. Reframe yours around incident reduction rates, on-call load metrics, and infrastructure scale to match what U.S. hiring managers expect from SRE candidates at offer stage.
Target companies with active LCA filing history
Employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for software or systems engineering roles in the past two years are already set up to sponsor E-3 visas. Search DOL's OFLC disclosure data to identify them before applying.
Clarify E-3 eligibility early in recruiter conversations
Many U.S. recruiters conflate E-3 with H-1B and assume a lottery is involved. Tell them upfront that E-3 has no cap, no lottery, and requires only an LCA and consular appointment, so sponsorship concerns don't kill your candidacy before an offer.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the LCA and paperwork
Once you have an offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork end-to-end. The LCA must be certified by DOL before your consular appointment, and errors at this stage delay or void the application.
Verify your degree field maps to the SRE job description
DOL requires your degree to relate directly to the role. A computer science or software engineering degree aligns cleanly. If your degree is in a different field, document how your coursework or three-to-one work experience equivalency supports the specialty occupation classification.
Prepare for consular questions on employer relationship and duties
Consular officers at Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth routinely ask SRE applicants to explain their specific on-call responsibilities, team structure, and how the role requires a specialised degree. Prepare concrete answers tied to your offer letter and LCA job description.
E-3 Visa Site Reliability Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Site Reliability Engineer jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically to surface SRE roles where employers are open to E-3 sponsorship, filtering out listings that require existing U.S. work authorization. Because E-3 requires employer action before your consular appointment, targeting employers already familiar with the LCA process saves significant time and reduces the risk of an offer falling through.
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 an SRE role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3 visa?
Yes. Site Reliability Engineer roles fall under DOL's software and systems engineering occupational classifications, which consistently meet the specialty occupation standard. The role must normally require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field, and your job description must reflect that requirement rather than treating a degree as a preference.
How does the E-3 visa compare to the H-1B for SRE roles?
For Australian SREs, the E-3 is almost always the better path. There is no annual lottery, no cap to exhaust, and the employer can initiate the process immediately after making an offer. H-1B selection is randomised and capped at 85,000 per fiscal year, meaning qualified candidates are routinely excluded regardless of their qualifications or the strength of the sponsoring employer.
Can I change SRE employers while on an E-3 visa?
Yes, but each new employer must file a fresh LCA and you must obtain a new E-3 visa stamp at a consulate before starting work, unless you qualify for a change of status inside the U.S. You cannot port an E-3 to a new employer the way some other visa categories allow. Plan for a consular appointment gap between roles.