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Software Developer roles are among the most actively sponsored positions under EB-2 and EB-3 green card categories. Employers file PERM labor certifications to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available, then petition USCIS for permanent sponsorship. Strong credentials in software engineering can qualify you for either EB-2 or EB-3 depending on the role's degree requirements.
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To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.
ABOUT SALESFORCE
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Applications will be accepted until 07/15/2026.
Join Salesforce's brand-new IT Employee Success and Finance Platform and Innovations team — a greenfield engineering org built from the ground up since early 2026 to define the data foundation powering HR and Finance at global scale. Based in San Francisco, CA; Indianapolis, IN; Denver, CO; New York, NY; or Atlanta, GA, you will serve as the technical authority for our Workday integration ecosystem, architecting the pipelines that make employee and financial data available, accurate, and ready for agentic use cases across Salesforce.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Architect and govern the integration landscape between Workday and Salesforce's broader enterprise ecosystem — designing scalable, secure, high-throughput pipelines that treat PII and SOX-regulated data with zero tolerance for error.
- Translate complex HR and Finance business strategies into reusable, well-documented integration platforms that make the entire engineering organization more efficient and capable of supporting agentic workloads.
- Partner with HR and Finance business stakeholders to define data integrity standards, validate integration accuracy, and drive adoption of engineering excellence practices including modern CI/CD for SaaS and robust testing automation.
- Mentor lead and staff engineers, lead architectural review processes, and establish guardrails that raise the technical bar across the team as the platform scales.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
You're Our Person If…
- You have 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical lead or staff capacity, with a strong track record of building SaaS-to-SaaS integrations and custom middleware/APIs bridging legacy and modern enterprise systems.
- You have deep experience handling high-stakes financial or HR data — you understand that a 1% data mismatch in Finance or HR is a 100% failure, and you architect accordingly with SOX compliance and auditability at the center.
- You think in platforms, not features — your work emphasizes reusability, documentation, and consistent engineering patterns that downstream consumers can trust.
- You are a skilled communicator who can partner with non-technical business stakeholders, influence engineering direction without direct authority, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
- A related technical degree required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Even Better If…
- You have direct hands-on experience with Workday (Extend, Orchestration, Integration Studio, or similar tools).
- You have worked in a FinTech or highly regulated industry where audit trails and compliance are non-negotiable.
- You are familiar with the Salesforce ecosystem — including MuleSoft, Data Cloud, or Slack — and understand how to connect Workday data into these platforms.
- You have experience standing up new platform teams or programs from scratch, including defining standards and onboarding engineering contributors.
COMPENSATION
The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
BENEFITS
Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including:
- time off programs
- medical, dental, vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.
ACCOMMODATIONS
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form. Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.
EEO STATEMENT
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
INTRODUCTION
To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.
ABOUT SALESFORCE
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Applications will be accepted until 07/15/2026.
Join Salesforce's brand-new IT Employee Success and Finance Platform and Innovations team — a greenfield engineering org built from the ground up since early 2026 to define the data foundation powering HR and Finance at global scale. Based in San Francisco, CA; Indianapolis, IN; Denver, CO; New York, NY; or Atlanta, GA, you will serve as the technical authority for our Workday integration ecosystem, architecting the pipelines that make employee and financial data available, accurate, and ready for agentic use cases across Salesforce.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Architect and govern the integration landscape between Workday and Salesforce's broader enterprise ecosystem — designing scalable, secure, high-throughput pipelines that treat PII and SOX-regulated data with zero tolerance for error.
- Translate complex HR and Finance business strategies into reusable, well-documented integration platforms that make the entire engineering organization more efficient and capable of supporting agentic workloads.
- Partner with HR and Finance business stakeholders to define data integrity standards, validate integration accuracy, and drive adoption of engineering excellence practices including modern CI/CD for SaaS and robust testing automation.
- Mentor lead and staff engineers, lead architectural review processes, and establish guardrails that raise the technical bar across the team as the platform scales.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
You're Our Person If…
- You have 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical lead or staff capacity, with a strong track record of building SaaS-to-SaaS integrations and custom middleware/APIs bridging legacy and modern enterprise systems.
- You have deep experience handling high-stakes financial or HR data — you understand that a 1% data mismatch in Finance or HR is a 100% failure, and you architect accordingly with SOX compliance and auditability at the center.
- You think in platforms, not features — your work emphasizes reusability, documentation, and consistent engineering patterns that downstream consumers can trust.
- You are a skilled communicator who can partner with non-technical business stakeholders, influence engineering direction without direct authority, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
- A related technical degree required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Even Better If…
- You have direct hands-on experience with Workday (Extend, Orchestration, Integration Studio, or similar tools).
- You have worked in a FinTech or highly regulated industry where audit trails and compliance are non-negotiable.
- You are familiar with the Salesforce ecosystem — including MuleSoft, Data Cloud, or Slack — and understand how to connect Workday data into these platforms.
- You have experience standing up new platform teams or programs from scratch, including defining standards and onboarding engineering contributors.
COMPENSATION
The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
BENEFITS
Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including:
- time off programs
- medical, dental, vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.
ACCOMMODATIONS
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form. Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.
EEO STATEMENT
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Software Developer
Align your degree field with the role
PERM labor certifications require your degree to match the job's minimum requirements. A computer science or software engineering degree maps cleanly to most developer roles, but an unrelated major can trigger an RFE during the I-140 stage.
Target employers with PERM filing history
Search DOL's OFLC disclosure data to identify companies that have filed PERM certifications for Software Developer positions. Prior filing history signals that an employer has established the internal process and legal support to sponsor green cards.
Understand EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility before applying
EB-2 requires a role with an advanced degree requirement or a candidate with strong professional credentials. EB-3 covers bachelor's-level positions. Your offer letter's stated minimum education requirement determines which category PERM targets, not your personal degree level.
Get your priority date on record early
The PERM process sets your priority date, which governs your place in the green card queue. For candidates born in high-demand countries, starting sponsorship as soon as you have a permanent offer can mean years of difference in your wait time.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for green card sponsors
Most job boards don't distinguish green card sponsorship from H-1B visa sponsorship. Use Migrate Mate to search Software Developer roles filtered specifically for EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship, so you're only applying to employers who have committed to the PERM pathway.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting an offer
Employers must be E-Verify enrolled to file certain green card-related applications and to sponsor STEM OPT employees who may later need PERM. Confirming enrollment before negotiating protects you from sponsorship commitments that can't be fulfilled.
Green Card Software Developer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Software Developer roles typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Software Developer positions qualify for EB-3 sponsorship when the job requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. EB-2 applies when the role specifies an advanced degree as a minimum requirement or when a candidate pursues a National Interest Waiver. The PERM labor certification captures the role's actual minimum requirements, so the job description language matters more than your personal credentials.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for software developers?
H-1B is a temporary, nonimmigrant visa with an annual lottery and a six-year maximum initial term. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 has no annual lottery, no cap at the EB-3 level for most countries, and results in permanent residency rather than temporary status. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM adds six months to a year before USCIS even adjudicates the I-140, and priority date backlogs extend the wait further for some nationalities.
What does the PERM process look like for a Software Developer position?
Your employer files a labor certification application with DOL under PERM, documenting a supervised recruitment process that confirms no qualified U.S. worker applied for the role. DOL reviews and certifies the application, then your employer files an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. Once that's approved and your priority date is current, you file for adjustment of status or attend a consular interview to receive your green card.
How can I find Software Developer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Searching for green card sponsorship specifically is harder than it looks because most job postings bundle H-1B and PERM sponsorship together or use vague language. Migrate Mate filters Software Developer roles by EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history, so you can identify employers who have completed PERM certifications for this job title before you apply.
Can my employer start the PERM process while I'm on an H-1B?
Yes, and starting PERM while you hold H-1B status is common practice. Filing PERM does not affect your H-1B, and an approved I-140 can extend your H-1B beyond the standard six-year maximum under AC21 portability rules. USCIS allows H-1B holders to remain in status while the green card process moves forward, provided you maintain continuous valid authorization.