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Staff Software Developer roles at large U.S. employers frequently qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which requires the employer to test the U.S. labor market before filing your I-140 petition. Engineering depth, system-level ownership, and advanced-degree credentials all strengthen your sponsorship case.
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Department: Ascension Connections, Digital & Conversational Channels
Schedule: Days | Full-time
LI-Remote
COMPENSATION
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options
- Financial security & retirement: employer-matched 403(b), planning and hardship resources, disability and life insurance
- Time to recharge: pro-rated paid time off (PTO) and holidays
- Career growth: Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare), reimbursement, ongoing professional development and online learning
- Emotional well-being: Employee Assistance Program, counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources
- Family support: parental leave, adoption assistance and family benefits
- Other benefits: optional legal and pet insurance, transportation savings and more
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect resilient healthcare cloud platforms across Google Cloud (GCP) and Kubernetes to guarantee high availability, rapid disaster recovery, and zero downtime for vital clinical and operational applications.
- Establish enterprise reliability standards by defining clear service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs) and error budgets, ensuring cross-functional engineering teams balance rapid innovation with system dependability.
- Streamline software delivery pipelines by designing automated, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) solutions and CI/CD patterns that eliminate manual effort and deliver secure features into clinicians' hands faster.
- Champion incident response and systemic recovery by guiding technical resolution during critical outages and conducting blameless retrospectives that protect ongoing patient care and operational continuity.
- Mentor and elevate engineering talent across the enterprise by establishing shared architecture playbooks, guiding complex design reviews, and fostering a collaborative culture of continuous learning.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Licensure / Certification / Registration: Required Credential(s): None Required.
Education:
High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.
Work Experience:
- 8 years in DevOps, Cloud, Platform, or SRE Engineering: Proven track record in production distributed systems, including at least 5 years dedicated to building automated, enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure.
- Advanced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Expertise: In-depth, production-tested command of core GCP services (such as GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, IAM, and cloud networking) to deliver scalable, secure platforms.
- Production Kubernetes & Infrastructure-as-Code Mastery: Expert-level capability with Kubernetes orchestration and declarative provisioning via Terraform to run fault-tolerant, auto-scaling services.
Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system with a culture and associate experience grounded in service, growth, care and connection. We empower our 99,000+ associates to bring their skills and expertise every day to reimagining healthcare, together. Recognized as one of the Best 150+ Places to Work in Healthcare and a Military-Friendly Gold Employer, you'll find an inclusive and supportive environment where your contributions truly matter.
Equal employment opportunity employer
Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.
Fraud prevention notice
Prospective applicants should be vigilant against fraudulent job offers and interview requests. Scammers may use sophisticated tactics to impersonate Ascension employees. To ensure your safety, please remember: Ascension will never ask for payment or to provide banking or financial information as part of the job application or hiring process, our legitimate email communications will always come from an @ascension.org email address; do not trust other domains, and an official offer will only be extended to candidates who have completed a job application through our authorized applicant tracking system.
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Location: Remote
Department: Ascension Connections, Digital & Conversational Channels
Schedule: Days | Full-time
LI-Remote
COMPENSATION
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options
- Financial security & retirement: employer-matched 403(b), planning and hardship resources, disability and life insurance
- Time to recharge: pro-rated paid time off (PTO) and holidays
- Career growth: Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare), reimbursement, ongoing professional development and online learning
- Emotional well-being: Employee Assistance Program, counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources
- Family support: parental leave, adoption assistance and family benefits
- Other benefits: optional legal and pet insurance, transportation savings and more
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect resilient healthcare cloud platforms across Google Cloud (GCP) and Kubernetes to guarantee high availability, rapid disaster recovery, and zero downtime for vital clinical and operational applications.
- Establish enterprise reliability standards by defining clear service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs) and error budgets, ensuring cross-functional engineering teams balance rapid innovation with system dependability.
- Streamline software delivery pipelines by designing automated, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) solutions and CI/CD patterns that eliminate manual effort and deliver secure features into clinicians' hands faster.
- Champion incident response and systemic recovery by guiding technical resolution during critical outages and conducting blameless retrospectives that protect ongoing patient care and operational continuity.
- Mentor and elevate engineering talent across the enterprise by establishing shared architecture playbooks, guiding complex design reviews, and fostering a collaborative culture of continuous learning.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Licensure / Certification / Registration: Required Credential(s): None Required.
Education:
High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.
Work Experience:
- 8 years in DevOps, Cloud, Platform, or SRE Engineering: Proven track record in production distributed systems, including at least 5 years dedicated to building automated, enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure.
- Advanced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Expertise: In-depth, production-tested command of core GCP services (such as GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, IAM, and cloud networking) to deliver scalable, secure platforms.
- Production Kubernetes & Infrastructure-as-Code Mastery: Expert-level capability with Kubernetes orchestration and declarative provisioning via Terraform to run fault-tolerant, auto-scaling services.
Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system with a culture and associate experience grounded in service, growth, care and connection. We empower our 99,000+ associates to bring their skills and expertise every day to reimagining healthcare, together. Recognized as one of the Best 150+ Places to Work in Healthcare and a Military-Friendly Gold Employer, you'll find an inclusive and supportive environment where your contributions truly matter.
Equal employment opportunity employer
Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.
Fraud prevention notice
Prospective applicants should be vigilant against fraudulent job offers and interview requests. Scammers may use sophisticated tactics to impersonate Ascension employees. To ensure your safety, please remember: Ascension will never ask for payment or to provide banking or financial information as part of the job application or hiring process, our legitimate email communications will always come from an @ascension.org email address; do not trust other domains, and an official offer will only be extended to candidates who have completed a job application through our authorized applicant tracking system.
E-Verify statement
Employer participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program. Please click here for more information.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Staff Software Developer
Document your system-level engineering scope
PERM job descriptions must reflect the actual duties USCIS will see in your I-140. Gather performance reviews, architecture diagrams, and project records that show staff-level ownership, not just individual contribution. Vague documentation is one of the most common audit triggers.
Identify employers with active PERM filing history
Target companies that have sponsored staff-level engineers before, not just those with open roles. The DOL's OFLC Wage Search lets you verify prevailing wage levels for your title and location before your first interview, so you know what salary floor the employer must meet.
Use Migrate Mate to filter green-card-sponsoring roles
Search for Staff Software Developer positions on Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles from employers with verified green card sponsorship history. Filtering by EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship upfront saves you from pursuing companies that only offer temporary work authorization.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility with your employer
EB-2 requires the role to genuinely need a master's degree or its equivalent. If your employer drafts the PERM job description to require only a bachelor's, you'll land in EB-3 regardless of your own credentials. Align on this before the DOL recruitment phase starts.
Negotiate PERM filing timing into your offer stage
PERM labor certification can take 12 to 18 months at DOL, and that clock doesn't start until your employer files. Ask during offer negotiation when the company typically initiates PERM for new hires, and whether they have in-house immigration counsel or use outside firms.
Check your O*NET occupation profile before interviews
The Staff Software Developer classification in O*NET defines the skill and education benchmarks DOL uses to evaluate PERM filings. Knowing how DOL categorizes your role helps you frame your experience accurately and anticipate the prevailing wage tier your employer will need to certify.
Green Card Staff Software Developer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Staff Software Developer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Both categories are possible depending on how the employer drafts the PERM job description. If the role requires a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience, EB-2 applies. If the minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree alone, the position falls under EB-3. Your actual credentials don't determine the category; the employer's stated job requirements do.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary work visa subject to an annual lottery and a six-year maximum stay without extensions. PERM sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no annual cap at the EB-3 level and no lottery. The tradeoff is time: PERM requires a DOL recruitment period, then I-140 adjudication, before you can file for adjustment of status. Total timelines often exceed two years for applicants without priority date backlogs.
How long does the green card process typically take for a Staff Software Developer?
The PERM stage alone averages 12 to 18 months at DOL, followed by USCIS adjudication of your I-140 petition. If your country of birth has a priority date backlog, adjustment of status can extend the total timeline significantly. Citizens of countries without per-country backlogs can sometimes complete the process in three to four years from PERM filing.
Where can I find Staff Software Developer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. It lets you filter Staff Software Developer roles by employers with verified green card sponsorship history, so you're not wading through listings from companies that only offer H-1B transfers or no work authorization support at all. Focusing your search this way substantially reduces the time spent on outreach that won't lead to a PERM filing.
Can I switch jobs after my employer files my PERM application?
Leaving before your I-140 is approved generally means starting the PERM process over with a new employer. Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is current, portability rules under AC21 allow you to move to a same or similar role without losing your place in line. Staff Software Developer and Senior Software Engineer titles have generally been treated as sufficiently similar for portability purposes, but your new employer should confirm this before you accept an offer.