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SRE engineer roles at U.S. tech companies qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which lets your employer permanently sponsor your residency. Reliability engineering combines software and systems expertise that DOL typically classifies as a specialty occupation, strengthening your sponsorship case from the start.
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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software development and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We also develop and operate the observability platforms that all other engineering teams use to make their services reliable. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with other engineering teams and our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business and regulatory environment.
How will you fulfil your potential?
- Balance feature development velocity and reliability with well-defined SLOs.
- Run the Production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
- Drive incident management process and support a blameless post-mortems culture.
- Partner with development teams to improve services via rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
- Champion reliability and resilience engineering practices and knowledge across the firm.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, with a proven track record in building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems at an enterprise level.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding and/or systems engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting.
- Experience with product engineering practices, algorithms, data structures, software design and/or experience with UNIX operating systems internals and/or networking.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing AI tools and working with Cloud Platforms.
- Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership.
- Coding beyond simple scripts.
- Solving novel problems from first principles.
- Experience working in highly regulated, financial services firms.
- Excellent people leadership skills either as an engineering manager or individual contributor.
WE OFFER BEST-IN-CLASS BENEFITS
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division
INTRODUCTION
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software development and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We also develop and operate the observability platforms that all other engineering teams use to make their services reliable. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with other engineering teams and our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business and regulatory environment.
How will you fulfil your potential?
- Balance feature development velocity and reliability with well-defined SLOs.
- Run the Production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
- Drive incident management process and support a blameless post-mortems culture.
- Partner with development teams to improve services via rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
- Champion reliability and resilience engineering practices and knowledge across the firm.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, with a proven track record in building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems at an enterprise level.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding and/or systems engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting.
- Experience with product engineering practices, algorithms, data structures, software design and/or experience with UNIX operating systems internals and/or networking.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing AI tools and working with Cloud Platforms.
- Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership.
- Coding beyond simple scripts.
- Solving novel problems from first principles.
- Experience working in highly regulated, financial services firms.
- Excellent people leadership skills either as an engineering manager or individual contributor.
WE OFFER BEST-IN-CLASS BENEFITS
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Sre Engineer
Document your SRE credentials before applying
Compile proof of reliability engineering work: incident reports you authored, SLO frameworks you designed, and on-call runbooks you maintained. PERM requires your employer to define a specific job requirement, and your credentials must align precisely with that definition.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search the DOL PERM disclosure data for companies that have certified SRE or site reliability engineer positions in the past two years. Employers already familiar with the PERM process move faster and make fewer costly procedural errors during your case.
Clarify whether EB-2 or EB-3 fits your background
EB-2 requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive SRE experience. If you hold only a bachelor's, EB-3 covers you as a skilled worker. Your category affects priority date queues, especially for nationals from India or China.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring SRE employers
Filter by job title and green card sponsorship status on Migrate Mate to surface companies actively hiring SRE engineers through EB-2 or EB-3. Targeting pre-screened employers saves months of outreach to companies that don't sponsor at all.
Negotiate the PERM job description before signing
The PERM application locks in your job duties and minimum requirements permanently. Before accepting an offer, confirm the written job description matches your actual role and degree. A mismatch discovered after filing forces a restart and loses your priority date.
Understand the prevailing wage before your offer stage
DOL requires your employer to pay at least the prevailing wage for your SRE role and location. Look up your wage level using the OFLC Wage Search before negotiations so you can verify the offer clears the threshold PERM requires.
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Find Sre Engineer JobsSre Engineer Green Card Sponsorship: Frequently Asked Questions
Do SRE engineer roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
SRE engineer positions typically qualify for both EB-2 and EB-3 depending on your credentials. EB-2 applies if you hold a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive SRE experience. EB-3 covers candidates with a bachelor's degree and a qualifying job offer. Your employer files the PERM labor certification first under whichever category fits your background.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for SRE roles?
H-1B is a temporary status requiring renewal every three years with no guaranteed path to permanency, while EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM leads directly to lawful permanent residency. There's no annual lottery for EB-3, and the process isn't capped in the same way H-1B registration is. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM typically takes one to two years before you even reach the I-140 stage, and priority date queues can extend that significantly for some nationalities.
What does the PERM labor certification process look like for an SRE position?
Your employer files a PERM application with DOL certifying that no qualified U.S. workers are available for the SRE role at the prevailing wage. This requires a formal recruitment campaign, including job postings and documented outreach. DOL reviews the application and, if approved, your employer files an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. Once that's approved and your priority date is current, you can file for adjustment of status or consular processing.
How can I find SRE engineering jobs that sponsor green cards?
Most job postings don't specify green card sponsorship availability, which makes identifying the right employers time-consuming. Migrate Mate lets you filter SRE engineering roles by EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship status, surfacing companies with confirmed green card filing history. That's a faster starting point than applying broadly and asking about sponsorship after an interview.
Can my SRE experience substitute for an advanced degree in the EB-2 category?
Yes, under EB-2, DOL and USCIS allow a bachelor's degree combined with at least five years of progressive post-degree experience in the specialty to substitute for an advanced degree. For SRE roles, progressive means increasing responsibility, not just years logged. Document promotions, scope expansions, and leadership of reliability engineering initiatives to build that record clearly before the PERM filing starts.
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