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Software Engineer roles are among the most actively PERM-sponsored positions in the U.S., with employers filing labor certifications across EB-2 and EB-3 categories for both domestic and offshore candidates. Finding the right sponsorship match means knowing which employers have a consistent green card filing history for this role.
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We're hiring a Sr. Software Engineer - Reliability Engineer who can code across the stack and cares deeply about reliability. You'll design and build infrastructure, observability tooling, and operational systems - treating resilience and debuggability as first-class concerns. You'll own projects end-to-end: from architecture code deployment production. You'll split time between infrastructure-as-code, incident response, system improvements, and mentoring. You'll work on a team that ships quality systems while maintaining operational excellence across a platform serving millions of dealership transactions daily.
What You'll Do:
SRE Best Practices & System Health Management
- Design and implement resilience initiatives: redundancy, failover, disaster recovery, data protection.
- Write infrastructure-as-code (Terraform); manage 50+ AWS accounts with infrastructure patterns.
- Own system health: proactively maintain application performance, minimize downtime, ensure consistent user experience.
- Evolve team's SRE standards and practices.
Application Monitoring & Observability
- Build observability into systems: logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alert design.
- Improve monitoring frameworks; enable faster incident detection and resolution.
- Design dashboards and alerts that help teams understand system behavior.
- Partner with application teams on service instrumentation.
AWS Cost Optimization
- Drive significant reductions in cloud spend through architectural improvements and resource utilization.
- Review infrastructure for efficiency; identify and eliminate waste.
- Balance cost, performance, and reliability in design decisions.
Software Development & Architecture
- Build production systems, APIs, internal tools, and automation with clean, well-tested code.
- Design for maintainability, operational simplicity, and reliability.
- Participate in code review and technical design discussions.
- Mentor junior engineers on code quality and architectural thinking.
Operations & Incident Response
- Participate in on-call rotations; debug and resolve production incidents.
- Conduct postmortem analysis; drive systemic improvements.
- Develop operational procedures and runbooks.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong coding in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent; writes clean, testable code.
- AWS hands-on: EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Lambda, VPCs, Athena.
- Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar).
- Debugging on Linux and Windows platforms; able to troubleshoot complex systems using logs, metrics, and architectural knowledge.
- System design thinking: can architect scalable systems and reason about trade-offs.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field.
HIGHLY VALUED
- Experience with observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus).
- Incident response experience; familiar with postmortem practices.
- Interest in or hands-on experience with SRE concepts (SLOs, resilience, failure modes).
- Cost optimization mindset; has identified and eliminated cloud waste.
- Windows and Linux system troubleshooting and performance analysis.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $121,800.00 - $203,000.00 per year
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $121,800.00 - $203,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
BENEFITS
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
EOE, including disability/vets
INTRODUCTION
We're hiring a Sr. Software Engineer - Reliability Engineer who can code across the stack and cares deeply about reliability. You'll design and build infrastructure, observability tooling, and operational systems - treating resilience and debuggability as first-class concerns. You'll own projects end-to-end: from architecture code deployment production. You'll split time between infrastructure-as-code, incident response, system improvements, and mentoring. You'll work on a team that ships quality systems while maintaining operational excellence across a platform serving millions of dealership transactions daily.
What You'll Do:
SRE Best Practices & System Health Management
- Design and implement resilience initiatives: redundancy, failover, disaster recovery, data protection.
- Write infrastructure-as-code (Terraform); manage 50+ AWS accounts with infrastructure patterns.
- Own system health: proactively maintain application performance, minimize downtime, ensure consistent user experience.
- Evolve team's SRE standards and practices.
Application Monitoring & Observability
- Build observability into systems: logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alert design.
- Improve monitoring frameworks; enable faster incident detection and resolution.
- Design dashboards and alerts that help teams understand system behavior.
- Partner with application teams on service instrumentation.
AWS Cost Optimization
- Drive significant reductions in cloud spend through architectural improvements and resource utilization.
- Review infrastructure for efficiency; identify and eliminate waste.
- Balance cost, performance, and reliability in design decisions.
Software Development & Architecture
- Build production systems, APIs, internal tools, and automation with clean, well-tested code.
- Design for maintainability, operational simplicity, and reliability.
- Participate in code review and technical design discussions.
- Mentor junior engineers on code quality and architectural thinking.
Operations & Incident Response
- Participate in on-call rotations; debug and resolve production incidents.
- Conduct postmortem analysis; drive systemic improvements.
- Develop operational procedures and runbooks.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong coding in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent; writes clean, testable code.
- AWS hands-on: EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Lambda, VPCs, Athena.
- Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar).
- Debugging on Linux and Windows platforms; able to troubleshoot complex systems using logs, metrics, and architectural knowledge.
- System design thinking: can architect scalable systems and reason about trade-offs.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field.
HIGHLY VALUED
- Experience with observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus).
- Incident response experience; familiar with postmortem practices.
- Interest in or hands-on experience with SRE concepts (SLOs, resilience, failure modes).
- Cost optimization mindset; has identified and eliminated cloud waste.
- Windows and Linux system troubleshooting and performance analysis.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $121,800.00 - $203,000.00 per year
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $121,800.00 - $203,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
BENEFITS
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
EOE, including disability/vets
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Software Engineer
Align your degree to EB-2 requirements
EB-2 requires a U.S. master's degree or foreign equivalent, or a U.S. bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience. Document your academic credentials and employment history before applying so employers can confirm EB-2 eligibility from the start.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
PERM-sponsoring Software Engineer employers cluster in tech, finance, and healthcare IT. Filter DOL disclosure data by occupation code to identify companies that have filed PERM applications for this exact role rather than relying on general job postings.
Search green card sponsors using Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified green card sponsorship history for Software Engineer roles. Use it to skip manual DOL data searches and focus your applications on companies already filing PERM for this position.
Negotiate the sponsorship commitment before signing
Ask specifically whether the offer includes PERM sponsorship and at which EB category. Some employers default to H-1B visa transfers without committing to green card filing. Get written confirmation of sponsorship intent and expected timeline before accepting.
Check your priority date against the Visa Bulletin
EB-3 software engineers born in India or China face significant backlog waits. Review the monthly Visa Bulletin published by the State Department to understand your projected wait under your birth-country category before choosing between EB-2 and EB-3.
Prepare your O*NET occupation profile for PERM recruitment
PERM requires the employer to conduct good-faith recruitment before filing. Review the O*NET profile for Software Engineer to understand how DOL classifies the role's duties and minimum requirements, which directly shapes the job description used in mandatory recruitment ads.
Green Card Software Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between H-1B and green card sponsorship for Software Engineer roles?
H-1B is a temporary nonimmigrant status requiring renewal every three years, subject to the annual cap and lottery. Green card sponsorship through PERM leads to lawful permanent residency with no renewal requirement and no cap at the EB-3 level for most countries. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM and I-140 adjudication typically takes one to two years before you can file for adjustment of status, and priority date backlogs for India and China can extend total wait times by a decade or more.
Which EB category do most Software Engineer green card cases use?
Most Software Engineer PERM cases are filed under EB-2, which requires an advanced degree or its equivalent. Employers sometimes file under EB-3 when the position is defined at the bachelor's level or when the candidate lacks a master's degree. EB-2 carries a faster priority date for most nationalities outside India and China, making it the preferred category where the role and credentials qualify.
How do I find Software Engineer employers who actually sponsor green cards?
The most direct method is searching DOL PERM disclosure data filtered by the Software Engineer occupation code. Migrate Mate aggregates this data so you can search by role and employer without downloading raw government files. Focus on employers with multiple PERM filings over several years, which signals an established sponsorship process rather than a one-off case.
Can I switch employers after my Software Engineer PERM is filed?
Switching employers restarts the PERM process unless your I-140 has been approved and you have been in adjustment of status for 180 days or more, in which case AC21 portability may allow you to move to a same or similar occupation. For most Software Engineer roles, a new software engineering position at a different employer qualifies under AC21 if the occupational duties are substantially similar.
What documentation do I need before a Software Engineer green card process begins?
You'll need an official copy of your highest degree, credential evaluation if it was issued outside the U.S., and detailed employment verification letters from each position supporting your experience claims. For EB-2 cases arguing equivalency to a master's degree, each prior employer letter must confirm job duties, title, and exact dates. Gaps or vague letters are a common reason USCIS issues requests for evidence during I-140 adjudication.