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Principal Full Stack Engineer roles sit squarely within H-1B visa specialty occupation criteria, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. Employers at this seniority level routinely sponsor H-1B transfers and new petitions, and the role's technical depth strengthens prevailing wage and specialty occupation documentation.
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Stratus, deriving from the Latin term meaning 'layer', offers an advanced set of MEP specific solutions that seamlessly layer across a contractor's entire workflow from design to fabrication to installation. Our team of seasoned industry experts, skilled technology leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs understands that fabrication does not occur in isolation, and increasingly, it may not happen within your own fabrication shop. Through close relationships with our customers—who include some of the most innovative and largest MEP contractors—we have developed a suite of Stratus tools to digitize, automate, and optimize piping, plumbing, sheet metal, and electrical contracting. Stratus provides the software layer an MEP Contractor needs to optimize profits with true "Data Driven Contracting."
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Principal Full Stack Engineer joins our Labs team — the faster-moving, experimental side of Stratus engineering, where new product lines are prototyped, validated, and brought to production. You will be the senior technical voice in the room, setting architectural direction across whatever shape the next bet takes. The work spans multiple frameworks, data stores, and cloud primitives. We care more that you can drop into any of it, read it deeply, and make the right call than we do about which language is on your resume today.
Equally important: this role owns the agentic AI surface of what Labs ships. You will design and build the agent loops that sit on top of our products — retrieval, tool use, multi-step planning, evaluation, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and the production guardrails that keep them safe. We need a technical hands-on engineer who can both deliver the platform and own the agent layer end-to-end.
As a Principal Engineer, you will demonstrate deep technical expertise across multiple domains, influence technical strategy, and make high-impact architectural decisions. You will set technical standards and engineering culture that extend beyond your immediate team to the entire organization, and work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers across the SDLC to deliver high-quality solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new product surfaces emerging from Labs.
- Drive architectural decisions and implementations for the team and the platforms it produces.
- Design and build production-grade agentic workflows on top of what we ship.
- Lead technical standards and best practices that impact multiple teams.
- Mentor and guide engineers and influence engineering culture.
- Make significant individual contributions to our SaaS product across both Azure and AWS.
- Help modernize and consolidate legacy surfaces as integration touch points emerge.
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of customer-facing applications and the agentic systems built on top of them.
- Implement and maintain modern automated testing practices, including evals for AI components.
- Advocate for incremental delivery, consistently aligning with the practices of modern high-performing engineering teams.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with 3+ years in senior/lead/principal roles.
- Deep code fluency — can pick up an unfamiliar codebase in any mainstream language and form a defensible opinion in days, not weeks. Language is a tool, not an identity.
- Strong working command of both Azure and AWS and the tradeoffs across container orchestration, serverless, messaging, identity, and managed data stores.
- Solid command of both SQL and NoSQL systems.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience in production.
- Demonstrable AI engineering chops — has shipped LLM-powered features to production, comfortable with retrieval, embeddings, tool calling, structured outputs, and cost/latency tradeoffs.
- Has designed agentic workflows end to end — planning, tool use, evaluation, failure-mode analysis, human-in-the-loop. Can articulate when an agent is the right answer and when a deterministic pipeline is.
- Proven track record of leading architectural initiatives and influencing decisions across teams.
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring experience.
- Understands SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI, and TDD and applies them when warranted.
- Excellent communication and ability to work collaboratively.
- Polyglot — quick to ramp on whatever the problem requires.
- Comfortable ramping into our current stack — C# / .NET on the backend, Node.js / TypeScript and VueJS on the frontend — and into whatever Labs ships next.
Nice to Have
- Working familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent frameworks, and eval frameworks.
- Experience deploying inference workloads on Azure (AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI) and/or AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker).
- Experience with Autodesk products (AutoCAD, Revit, Fabrication, BIM 360 Docs, Forge / APS).
- Familiarity with modern serverless technologies on either cloud.
- Experience leading large-scale system migrations or architectural transformations.
- Solid understanding of security best practices, including the AI-specific surface.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures.
- Track record of establishing technical standards across engineering organizations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive health benefits plan
- Matching 401k contributions
- 20 days annual PTO
- Primarily remote work with occasional annual team onsites.
INTRODUCTION
Stratus, deriving from the Latin term meaning 'layer', offers an advanced set of MEP specific solutions that seamlessly layer across a contractor's entire workflow from design to fabrication to installation. Our team of seasoned industry experts, skilled technology leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs understands that fabrication does not occur in isolation, and increasingly, it may not happen within your own fabrication shop. Through close relationships with our customers—who include some of the most innovative and largest MEP contractors—we have developed a suite of Stratus tools to digitize, automate, and optimize piping, plumbing, sheet metal, and electrical contracting. Stratus provides the software layer an MEP Contractor needs to optimize profits with true "Data Driven Contracting."
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Principal Full Stack Engineer joins our Labs team — the faster-moving, experimental side of Stratus engineering, where new product lines are prototyped, validated, and brought to production. You will be the senior technical voice in the room, setting architectural direction across whatever shape the next bet takes. The work spans multiple frameworks, data stores, and cloud primitives. We care more that you can drop into any of it, read it deeply, and make the right call than we do about which language is on your resume today.
Equally important: this role owns the agentic AI surface of what Labs ships. You will design and build the agent loops that sit on top of our products — retrieval, tool use, multi-step planning, evaluation, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and the production guardrails that keep them safe. We need a technical hands-on engineer who can both deliver the platform and own the agent layer end-to-end.
As a Principal Engineer, you will demonstrate deep technical expertise across multiple domains, influence technical strategy, and make high-impact architectural decisions. You will set technical standards and engineering culture that extend beyond your immediate team to the entire organization, and work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers across the SDLC to deliver high-quality solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new product surfaces emerging from Labs.
- Drive architectural decisions and implementations for the team and the platforms it produces.
- Design and build production-grade agentic workflows on top of what we ship.
- Lead technical standards and best practices that impact multiple teams.
- Mentor and guide engineers and influence engineering culture.
- Make significant individual contributions to our SaaS product across both Azure and AWS.
- Help modernize and consolidate legacy surfaces as integration touch points emerge.
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of customer-facing applications and the agentic systems built on top of them.
- Implement and maintain modern automated testing practices, including evals for AI components.
- Advocate for incremental delivery, consistently aligning with the practices of modern high-performing engineering teams.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with 3+ years in senior/lead/principal roles.
- Deep code fluency — can pick up an unfamiliar codebase in any mainstream language and form a defensible opinion in days, not weeks. Language is a tool, not an identity.
- Strong working command of both Azure and AWS and the tradeoffs across container orchestration, serverless, messaging, identity, and managed data stores.
- Solid command of both SQL and NoSQL systems.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience in production.
- Demonstrable AI engineering chops — has shipped LLM-powered features to production, comfortable with retrieval, embeddings, tool calling, structured outputs, and cost/latency tradeoffs.
- Has designed agentic workflows end to end — planning, tool use, evaluation, failure-mode analysis, human-in-the-loop. Can articulate when an agent is the right answer and when a deterministic pipeline is.
- Proven track record of leading architectural initiatives and influencing decisions across teams.
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring experience.
- Understands SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI, and TDD and applies them when warranted.
- Excellent communication and ability to work collaboratively.
- Polyglot — quick to ramp on whatever the problem requires.
- Comfortable ramping into our current stack — C# / .NET on the backend, Node.js / TypeScript and VueJS on the frontend — and into whatever Labs ships next.
Nice to Have
- Working familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent frameworks, and eval frameworks.
- Experience deploying inference workloads on Azure (AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI) and/or AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker).
- Experience with Autodesk products (AutoCAD, Revit, Fabrication, BIM 360 Docs, Forge / APS).
- Familiarity with modern serverless technologies on either cloud.
- Experience leading large-scale system migrations or architectural transformations.
- Solid understanding of security best practices, including the AI-specific surface.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures.
- Track record of establishing technical standards across engineering organizations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive health benefits plan
- Matching 401k contributions
- 20 days annual PTO
- Primarily remote work with occasional annual team onsites.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Principal Full Stack Engineer
Align your resume to SOC codes
Principal Full Stack Engineer roles are typically classified under SOC 15-1252 (Software Developers). Confirm your resume reflects the technical scope of that classification so your employer's LCA and I-129 petition map cleanly to the right wage level.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up Level III or Level IV wages for SOC 15-1252 in your target metro. Your offered salary must meet or exceed that figure, so knowing the floor before offer stage prevents delays during LCA certification.
Target employers with cap-exempt filing history
Universities, affiliated nonprofits, and government research organizations can file H-1B petitions outside the annual cap. For a principal-level engineering role, these institutions sometimes hire senior full stack engineers and bypass the lottery entirely.
Search H-1B sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Filter for Principal Full Stack Engineer roles on Migrate Mate to see which employers have verified H-1B LCA filing history for this title. That data lets you prioritize outreach to companies with an active sponsorship track record at this seniority level.
Request premium processing at the offer stage
USCIS premium processing upgrades I-129 adjudication to 15 business days. At the principal level, your leverage to negotiate this into your offer is higher than at junior grades, and it shortens the gap between offer acceptance and authorized start date.
Prepare a specialty occupation evidence package early
USCIS scrutinizes principal-level roles that blend management with engineering. Gather your portfolio of technical architecture decisions, system design documents, and peer-reviewed contributions before the petition stage so your employer's attorney can build a strong specialty occupation argument.
H-1B Visa Principal Full Stack Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal Full Stack Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS evaluates specialty occupation status by confirming the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field. Principal Full Stack Engineer positions typically require a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related discipline, and the technical complexity of the work supports that classification. Your employer documents this in the I-129 petition.
How does prevailing wage work for a Principal Full Stack Engineer on H-1B?
Your employer must certify in the Labor Condition Application that your offered wage meets or exceeds the prevailing wage for your job location and SOC code, typically Level III or Level IV under SOC 15-1252. The DOL uses OFLC Wage Search data to set these thresholds. Level IV applies when the role requires independent judgment and sets technical direction, which is common at the principal level.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer for a Principal Full Stack Engineer role?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new employer as soon as USCIS receives the transfer petition, provided you're in valid status. The new employer files a new I-129 with a fresh LCA. At the principal level, employers frequently initiate transfers for candidates already in H-1B status to avoid the lottery and reduce onboarding delays.
Which employers typically sponsor H-1B visas for Principal Full Stack Engineers?
Mid-to-large technology companies, fintech firms, enterprise software vendors, and well-funded startups are the most active H-1B sponsors at the principal engineering level. You can browse employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history for this specific title on Migrate Mate, which surfaces companies that have actively sponsored roles at this seniority level.
What happens to my H-1B status if I'm laid off from a Principal Full Stack Engineer role?
You have a 60-day grace period after your employment ends to find a new sponsor, transfer your petition, change status, or depart the U.S. During that window you can't work, but you can negotiate a new offer. At the principal level, demand is strong enough that many engineers secure a transfer petition within the grace period without a gap in status.