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Get Access To All JobsDate posted 11/05/2026
Category Information Technology
Hire Type Employee
Job ID 19554
Base Salary Range $186800-$280100
Remote Eligible No
Date Posted 11/05/2026
We Are
Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.
You Are
You have spent years keeping production Unix/Linux infrastructure running when it matters most, and you know the difference between a system that looks healthy in a dashboard and one that actually performs under load when thousands of engineers are trying to compile code at 9am across three continents. You think in layers. When a job scheduler starts behaving strangely, you do not just restart it. You trace through logs, check kernel parameters, look at network saturation, talk to the team that changed their workload pattern last week, and find the actual cause.
You are comfortable being the person who gets pulled into the hardest problems, the ones where five other people have already looked and walked away confused. You ask better questions. You build mental models of how distributed systems actually behave, not how the documentation says they should. You have probably administered LSF, Slurm, or Grid Engine in a production environment where downtime meant engineers sitting idle, and you have learned to think three steps ahead.
At Synopsys, you will support infrastructure that directly affects how 30,000 people build the chips that power everything. The scale is real, the problems are hard, and the team needs someone who has already done this work.
What You'll Be Doing
- Administer and troubleshoot large scale Unix/Linux environments supporting business critical engineering workloads across global development teams
- Support grid and HPC infrastructure running workload schedulers like IBM Spectrum LSF, Slurm, PBS Pro, or Grid Engine for compute intensive engineering jobs
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues affecting job execution, scheduling, resource utilization, system performance, and infrastructure availability
- Maintain and improve reliability of source code and development platforms including GitHub, GitLab, Perforce, and Artifactory used by software engineering teams globally
- Build automation, scripts, tools, and operational documentation that reduce repetitive work and improve system reliability and scalability
- Participate in production support and on call rotation covering globally distributed systems, including occasional evening, weekend, or early morning coverage
- Conduct root cause analysis after significant incidents and drive corrective and preventative actions that prevent recurrence
The Impact You Will Have
- Keep critical engineering infrastructure available and performant for thousands of engineers building semiconductor products across the US, Europe, India, and other global locations
- Reduce engineering downtime by catching and resolving infrastructure problems before they affect productivity or workload execution
- Improve the stability and performance of HPC and grid environments so engineering teams can run compute intensive workloads reliably at scale
- Make development workflows faster and more reliable by maintaining high availability source code and build infrastructure that engineering teams depend on daily
- Eliminate recurring operational problems by building sustainable automation and process improvements rather than relying on reactive firefighting
- Accelerate incident resolution by providing deep technical expertise during complex troubleshooting that spans multiple infrastructure components
- Enable better capacity planning and infrastructure decisions by monitoring system health, performance trends, and resource utilization patterns
- 7+ years of hands on experience administering and troubleshooting Unix/Linux systems in complex production environments, with depth of technical capability being more important than years alone
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, system administration, performance troubleshooting, and production support for business critical infrastructure
- Experience supporting large scale infrastructure or server environments used by engineering or software development organizations where reliability and performance directly affect productivity
- Demonstrated ability to independently diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure problems affecting production systems and technical users
- Strong scripting and automation capability using shell, Python, Perl, or similar languages for systems administration, troubleshooting, and operational improvement
- Experience with HPC, grid computing, cluster computing, or large scale engineering compute environments is a strong plus
- Hands on experience with IBM Spectrum LSF, Platform LSF, Slurm, PBS Pro, Grid Engine, or comparable workload management technologies is highly valuable
Who You Are
- You can walk into a situation where a grid scheduler is behaving unpredictably, ask the right diagnostic questions, trace through system logs and job traces, and identify whether the problem is configuration drift, a kernel bug, network saturation, or a workload pattern that nobody anticipated
- You take ownership of hard problems and drive them through resolution even when the path is not obvious, pulling in the right people and keeping stakeholders informed without needing someone to manage your progress
- You write clear incident summaries and postmortems that help the team learn what actually happened and prevent the same failure from happening again, not just check a box
- You can explain a complex infrastructure tradeoff to a software engineer in two sentences without losing the nuance, and you know when to dig deeper versus when to escalate
- You are comfortable working across time zones with globally distributed teams, providing clear communication during incidents and complex troubleshooting activities that span multiple regions
- You recognize when a recurring operational problem needs a sustainable solution rather than another manual workaround, and you follow through on building that solution
The Team You'll Be Part Of
You will join the team responsible for critical engineering infrastructure used by software engineering teams globally. The team supports infrastructure for a large global engineering community, including grid and high performance computing environments, workload scheduling platforms, and source code and development systems. You will collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams across the US, Europe, India, and other global locations. This is a hybrid role based in the Bay Area with flexibility to work from our Sunnyvale office and remotely.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
LI-Hybrid
At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.
In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can provide more details.
Date posted 11/05/2026
Category Information Technology
Hire Type Employee
Job ID 19554
Base Salary Range $186800-$280100
Remote Eligible No
Date Posted 11/05/2026
We Are
Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.
You Are
You have spent years keeping production Unix/Linux infrastructure running when it matters most, and you know the difference between a system that looks healthy in a dashboard and one that actually performs under load when thousands of engineers are trying to compile code at 9am across three continents. You think in layers. When a job scheduler starts behaving strangely, you do not just restart it. You trace through logs, check kernel parameters, look at network saturation, talk to the team that changed their workload pattern last week, and find the actual cause.
You are comfortable being the person who gets pulled into the hardest problems, the ones where five other people have already looked and walked away confused. You ask better questions. You build mental models of how distributed systems actually behave, not how the documentation says they should. You have probably administered LSF, Slurm, or Grid Engine in a production environment where downtime meant engineers sitting idle, and you have learned to think three steps ahead.
At Synopsys, you will support infrastructure that directly affects how 30,000 people build the chips that power everything. The scale is real, the problems are hard, and the team needs someone who has already done this work.
What You'll Be Doing
- Administer and troubleshoot large scale Unix/Linux environments supporting business critical engineering workloads across global development teams
- Support grid and HPC infrastructure running workload schedulers like IBM Spectrum LSF, Slurm, PBS Pro, or Grid Engine for compute intensive engineering jobs
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues affecting job execution, scheduling, resource utilization, system performance, and infrastructure availability
- Maintain and improve reliability of source code and development platforms including GitHub, GitLab, Perforce, and Artifactory used by software engineering teams globally
- Build automation, scripts, tools, and operational documentation that reduce repetitive work and improve system reliability and scalability
- Participate in production support and on call rotation covering globally distributed systems, including occasional evening, weekend, or early morning coverage
- Conduct root cause analysis after significant incidents and drive corrective and preventative actions that prevent recurrence
The Impact You Will Have
- Keep critical engineering infrastructure available and performant for thousands of engineers building semiconductor products across the US, Europe, India, and other global locations
- Reduce engineering downtime by catching and resolving infrastructure problems before they affect productivity or workload execution
- Improve the stability and performance of HPC and grid environments so engineering teams can run compute intensive workloads reliably at scale
- Make development workflows faster and more reliable by maintaining high availability source code and build infrastructure that engineering teams depend on daily
- Eliminate recurring operational problems by building sustainable automation and process improvements rather than relying on reactive firefighting
- Accelerate incident resolution by providing deep technical expertise during complex troubleshooting that spans multiple infrastructure components
- Enable better capacity planning and infrastructure decisions by monitoring system health, performance trends, and resource utilization patterns
- 7+ years of hands on experience administering and troubleshooting Unix/Linux systems in complex production environments, with depth of technical capability being more important than years alone
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, system administration, performance troubleshooting, and production support for business critical infrastructure
- Experience supporting large scale infrastructure or server environments used by engineering or software development organizations where reliability and performance directly affect productivity
- Demonstrated ability to independently diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure problems affecting production systems and technical users
- Strong scripting and automation capability using shell, Python, Perl, or similar languages for systems administration, troubleshooting, and operational improvement
- Experience with HPC, grid computing, cluster computing, or large scale engineering compute environments is a strong plus
- Hands on experience with IBM Spectrum LSF, Platform LSF, Slurm, PBS Pro, Grid Engine, or comparable workload management technologies is highly valuable
Who You Are
- You can walk into a situation where a grid scheduler is behaving unpredictably, ask the right diagnostic questions, trace through system logs and job traces, and identify whether the problem is configuration drift, a kernel bug, network saturation, or a workload pattern that nobody anticipated
- You take ownership of hard problems and drive them through resolution even when the path is not obvious, pulling in the right people and keeping stakeholders informed without needing someone to manage your progress
- You write clear incident summaries and postmortems that help the team learn what actually happened and prevent the same failure from happening again, not just check a box
- You can explain a complex infrastructure tradeoff to a software engineer in two sentences without losing the nuance, and you know when to dig deeper versus when to escalate
- You are comfortable working across time zones with globally distributed teams, providing clear communication during incidents and complex troubleshooting activities that span multiple regions
- You recognize when a recurring operational problem needs a sustainable solution rather than another manual workaround, and you follow through on building that solution
The Team You'll Be Part Of
You will join the team responsible for critical engineering infrastructure used by software engineering teams globally. The team supports infrastructure for a large global engineering community, including grid and high performance computing environments, workload scheduling platforms, and source code and development systems. You will collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams across the US, Europe, India, and other global locations. This is a hybrid role based in the Bay Area with flexibility to work from our Sunnyvale office and remotely.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
LI-Hybrid
At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.
In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can provide more details.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Map your SOC code before applying
Principal SRE roles typically map to SOC 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) or 15-1252 (Software Developers). Pull the O*NET profile for your target code to confirm your resume duties align, since USCIS scrutinizes whether the actual job description supports specialty-occupation status.
Verify prevailing wage by metro area
An LCA wage certified for San Francisco does not cover a new worksite in Austin. Run the OFLC Wage Search for each city where you expect to work before accepting an offer, so you can flag mismatches before the employer submits the LCA to DOL.
Target companies with dedicated SRE tracks
Use Migrate Mate to search Principal SRE roles filtered by employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history, so you spend time on companies that have demonstrated willingness to sponsor rather than guessing from general job boards.
Distinguish Principal from Staff in your title negotiation
USCIS can issue a Request for Evidence if your title reads generic but your duties are senior-level. Getting the job description to explicitly state principal-level scope, on-call architecture ownership, and cross-functional leadership strengthens the specialty-occupation argument in the I-129 petition.
Start the LCA process before your offer deadline
DOL targets LCA certification within seven business days, but administrative backlogs do occur. Ask your employer to submit the LCA as soon as your offer terms are finalized, since the I-129 cannot be filed with USCIS until the LCA is certified.
Secure a cap-gap memo if your OPT is expiring
If you're on F-1 OPT when your H-1B petition is selected, cap-gap protection extends your work authorization through September 30. Get written confirmation from your DSO and carry that documentation if you travel internationally before your H-1B start date.
H-1B Visa Principal Site Reliability Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal Site Reliability Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. The role typically requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, or a directly related field, which meets USCIS's specialty-occupation definition. Your employer will document this requirement in the I-129 petition. Roles that bundle SRE duties with general IT support work could face extra scrutiny, so the job description should clearly reflect degree-level engineering responsibilities.
How long does H-1B status last for a Principal SRE position?
USCIS grants H-1B status for up to three years on initial approval, with an extension available for an additional three years, reaching a six-year maximum under the standard cap. If your employer is sponsoring you for a green card and an I-140 petition is approved, further extensions beyond six years may be available under AC21 provisions.
What happens to my H-1B if I change employers or move to a new office location?
Changing employers requires a new H-1B petition filed by the new company. Moving to a new worksite, even within the same employer, requires a new certified LCA for that location before you begin working there, since each LCA is tied to a specific worksite address. Your employer's HR or immigration counsel should file an amended LCA before any permanent worksite change.
How do I find Principal SRE jobs where employers are actively sponsoring H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history, searchable by role and location, so you can focus on companies that have already demonstrated sponsorship willingness for engineering positions. Cross-referencing DOL disclosure data helps you confirm whether a specific employer has filed LCAs for SRE or software engineering roles, not just unrelated job families.
Can my employer use premium processing for a Principal SRE H-1B petition?
Yes. Employers can request premium processing by filing Form I-907 with USCIS, which guarantees a decision within 15 business days. For a Principal SRE role, premium processing is particularly useful when you're transitioning between employers and need to avoid a gap in authorized work status or when your start date is time-sensitive due to project commitments.