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Systems Development Engineer roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Australian citizens can secure two-year renewable status with no lottery and no annual cap, making this one of the most direct paths to U.S. employment in infrastructure and systems engineering.
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Build the automation and infrastructure that keeps every Amazon and AWS site on Earth physically secure.
Amazon Optics develops and operates the critical services that Corporate and AWS data center employees rely on to protect our physical sites and preserve the trust our customers place in us. As a Systems Development Engineer II, you sit at the intersection of software and infrastructure: you build the deployment pipelines, fleet automation, monitoring, and operational tooling that let a small team run a global, safety-critical access control system with minimal manual toil. When "can't be done" isn't an accepted answer, you find the extensible, scalable path and simplify along the way.
You'll design systems that require minimal long-term maintenance, automate manual processes, and create tools that scale across Amazon's physical-access infrastructure, spanning AWS data centers, corporate offices, and Leo facilities worldwide. You own your solutions end-to-end: testable, maintainable, and efficient, with sound architectural and technical trade-off decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate automation, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines that deploy Optics access control services safely across every AWS region.
- Own the operational excellence of production systems: define monitoring, alarming, and runbooks; drive down manual toil and mean-time-to-recovery.
- Lead technical design for medium-to-large infrastructure initiatives, balancing complexity, scalability, security, and delivery speed.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (e.g., AWS CDK/CloudFormation) to provision and manage services and their supporting resources.
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues across the stack, from service code to underlying infrastructure and device connectivity.
- Improve deployment safety and release velocity through automated testing, bake/rollback gating, and reduction of change-related risk.
- Partner with software engineers, security, and operations teams to harden systems that must be highly available and secure by design.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for the services you own, and continuously reduce operational load through engineering.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, VA, Herndon
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $129,200.00 - $174,800.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Build the automation and infrastructure that keeps every Amazon and AWS site on Earth physically secure.
Amazon Optics develops and operates the critical services that Corporate and AWS data center employees rely on to protect our physical sites and preserve the trust our customers place in us. As a Systems Development Engineer II, you sit at the intersection of software and infrastructure: you build the deployment pipelines, fleet automation, monitoring, and operational tooling that let a small team run a global, safety-critical access control system with minimal manual toil. When "can't be done" isn't an accepted answer, you find the extensible, scalable path and simplify along the way.
You'll design systems that require minimal long-term maintenance, automate manual processes, and create tools that scale across Amazon's physical-access infrastructure, spanning AWS data centers, corporate offices, and Leo facilities worldwide. You own your solutions end-to-end: testable, maintainable, and efficient, with sound architectural and technical trade-off decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate automation, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines that deploy Optics access control services safely across every AWS region.
- Own the operational excellence of production systems: define monitoring, alarming, and runbooks; drive down manual toil and mean-time-to-recovery.
- Lead technical design for medium-to-large infrastructure initiatives, balancing complexity, scalability, security, and delivery speed.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (e.g., AWS CDK/CloudFormation) to provision and manage services and their supporting resources.
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues across the stack, from service code to underlying infrastructure and device connectivity.
- Improve deployment safety and release velocity through automated testing, bake/rollback gating, and reduction of change-related risk.
- Partner with software engineers, security, and operations teams to harden systems that must be highly available and secure by design.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for the services you own, and continuously reduce operational load through engineering.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, VA, Herndon
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $129,200.00 - $174,800.00 USD annually
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Translate your Australian degree credentials clearly
U.S. employers and consular officers need to see your Australian bachelor's degree maps to a four-year U.S. equivalent in a relevant technical field. A credential evaluation from a NACES-approved evaluator removes any ambiguity before your interview.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data to identify companies that have filed LCAs for Systems Development Engineer or similar systems-focused SOC codes. Prior filings signal an employer already understands the E-3 visa process.
Clarify the specialty occupation test early
E-3 eligibility requires the role to normally need a bachelor's degree in a specific discipline. For systems development roles, confirm your job description specifies a degree in computer science or systems engineering, not just any technical degree, before accepting an offer.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for your LCA
The LCA must be certified by DOL before your consulate appointment, and errors delay your start date. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork so nothing stalls between offer acceptance and your interview.
Prepare for consulate questions on systems work scope
Consular officers verify the role genuinely requires specialized engineering knowledge. Bring documentation showing your day-to-day responsibilities involve architecture, infrastructure design, or complex systems integration rather than general IT support.
Understand how employer changes affect your E-3 status
If you switch employers after arriving on E-3, your new employer must file a fresh LCA and you'll need a new visa stamp before re-entering the U.S. Build this timeline into any job transition plan to avoid a gap in authorized work status.
E-3 Visa Systems Development Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Systems Development Engineer jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. You can filter by job title and see employers with a history of filing for Australian visa holders. Standard job boards don't filter by visa type, so you're often left guessing whether an employer will sponsor before you apply.
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 Systems Development Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical discipline such as computer science, systems engineering, or software engineering. The key is that the degree requirement must be tied to the role's core duties. A generalist IT role that accepts any degree field may not satisfy the specialty occupation standard that USCIS and consular officers apply.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Systems Development Engineer roles?
The E-3 has a 10,500 annual allocation that has never been exhausted, so there's no lottery and no randomized selection. H-1B visa registrations regularly exceed 400,000 for 85,000 slots, meaning most applicants are rejected before the petition is even reviewed. For Australian nationals in systems engineering, the E-3 offers a reliable path that the H-1B cannot guarantee.
Can I start work while my E-3 visa is being processed?
Not without separate work authorization. The E-3 is a consular-processed visa, meaning you obtain the stamp at a U.S. consulate in Australia before traveling. If you're already in the U.S. on another status, a change of status to E-3 is possible but adds processing time. Your authorized employment start date is tied to your I-94 admission record, not the LCA certification date.