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Site Reliability Engineer roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under the computer occupations category, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. SRE positions at cloud-native and enterprise employers consistently rank among the highest H-1B LCA filing volumes, with cap-subject petitions filed each April for October start dates.
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Runpod is the foundational platform for developers to build and run custom AI systems that scale. With over 500,000 developers worldwide and an annual recurring revenue run rate exceeding $120M, Runpod operates at the intersection of developer velocity and production-scale AI. Founded in 2022, we've grown rapidly by building infrastructure purpose-built for modern AI workloads. Our platform enables teams to move from experimentation to deployment with flexibility across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. As a remote-first, globally distributed company, we are building the infrastructure layer that powers the next generation of AI systems.
The Reliability team owns the availability, performance, and operational excellence of Runpod's global platform. While infrastructure teams build the systems, the Reliability team ensures those systems remain resilient, observable, and scalable under real-world production conditions.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This team is responsible for:
- Defining and enforcing reliability standards across engineering
- Designing incident response processes and improving recovery times
- Building observability systems and reliability tooling
- Driving SLO adoption and production readiness reviews
- Reducing operational toil through automation
The Reliability team works cross-functionally with Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Support to ensure our systems remain stable and performant as we scale rapidly. We value proactive problem solving, automation-first thinking, and strong ownership of production systems.
As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Reliability team, you will focus on ensuring the stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed platform. You will partner with engineering teams to improve system design, strengthen observability, and prevent incidents before they happen. This role blends software engineering with production operations. You'll work on reliability frameworks, SLO design, automation, and production hardening, reducing errors and improving performance across different services and infrastructure. This is a high-impact role central to maintaining trust with developers running critical AI workloads on Runpod.
Your Impact
- Increase platform uptime and reduce incident frequency and duration
- Establish and operationalize SLIs/SLOs across services
- Improve MTTR through better tooling, automation, and runbooks
- Strengthen production readiness standards
- Drive long-term systemic reliability improvements
You will influence how reliability is defined and measured across Runpod and help build the operational backbone of the company.
Responsibilities:
Reliability Engineering
- Define and implement SLIs/SLOs for critical services
- Lead incident response and coordinate cross-team mitigation efforts
- Conduct blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are completed
- Perform production readiness reviews for new services and features
- Identify systemic risks and drive preventative improvements
Observability & Monitoring
- Design and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Improve signal-to-noise ratio in alerts and reduce alert fatigue
- Build internal tooling for reliability tracking and reporting
- Improve visibility into GPU performance and distributed systems health
Automation & Toil Reduction
- Automate recurring operational workflows
- Build tools and scripts (Python, Go, Bash) to eliminate manual processes
- Improve deployment safety through automation and guardrails
- Strengthen CI/CD reliability and release processes
Cross-Functional Reliability Advocacy
- Partner with engineering teams to improve system resilience
- Provide guidance on fault tolerance, scalability, and failure handling
- Contribute to architectural discussions with a reliability-first mindset
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering
- Strong Linux systems and Networking expertise
- Experience managing containerized production systems
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes
- Experience defining and managing SLIs/SLOs
- Proven incident response and postmortem leadership experience
- Strong scripting or programming skills
- Experience with monitoring and alerting systems
- Excellent written communication skills
- Successful completion of a background check
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML platforms
- Experience improving reliability in high-growth or large scale environments
- Familiarity with GPU observability tooling
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code
- Experience working in startup environments
- Experience building internal reliability platforms or frameworks
What You'll Receive
- The competitive base pay for this position ranges from $150,000 - $200,000 usd. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Runpod and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location.
- Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company - everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.
- Generous medical, dental & vision plans
- Flexible PTO - take the time you need to recharge
- Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication
- Join a passionate team on the cutting edge of AI infrastructure — where culture, learning, and ownership are at the heart of how we scale.
RunPod is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and upholding the principles of equality and respect for all individuals. We believe that diversity in all its forms enhances our team. As an equal opportunity employer, RunPod is committed to creating an inclusive workforce at every level. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
INTRODUCTION
Runpod is the foundational platform for developers to build and run custom AI systems that scale. With over 500,000 developers worldwide and an annual recurring revenue run rate exceeding $120M, Runpod operates at the intersection of developer velocity and production-scale AI. Founded in 2022, we've grown rapidly by building infrastructure purpose-built for modern AI workloads. Our platform enables teams to move from experimentation to deployment with flexibility across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. As a remote-first, globally distributed company, we are building the infrastructure layer that powers the next generation of AI systems.
The Reliability team owns the availability, performance, and operational excellence of Runpod's global platform. While infrastructure teams build the systems, the Reliability team ensures those systems remain resilient, observable, and scalable under real-world production conditions.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This team is responsible for:
- Defining and enforcing reliability standards across engineering
- Designing incident response processes and improving recovery times
- Building observability systems and reliability tooling
- Driving SLO adoption and production readiness reviews
- Reducing operational toil through automation
The Reliability team works cross-functionally with Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Support to ensure our systems remain stable and performant as we scale rapidly. We value proactive problem solving, automation-first thinking, and strong ownership of production systems.
As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Reliability team, you will focus on ensuring the stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed platform. You will partner with engineering teams to improve system design, strengthen observability, and prevent incidents before they happen. This role blends software engineering with production operations. You'll work on reliability frameworks, SLO design, automation, and production hardening, reducing errors and improving performance across different services and infrastructure. This is a high-impact role central to maintaining trust with developers running critical AI workloads on Runpod.
Your Impact
- Increase platform uptime and reduce incident frequency and duration
- Establish and operationalize SLIs/SLOs across services
- Improve MTTR through better tooling, automation, and runbooks
- Strengthen production readiness standards
- Drive long-term systemic reliability improvements
You will influence how reliability is defined and measured across Runpod and help build the operational backbone of the company.
Responsibilities:
Reliability Engineering
- Define and implement SLIs/SLOs for critical services
- Lead incident response and coordinate cross-team mitigation efforts
- Conduct blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are completed
- Perform production readiness reviews for new services and features
- Identify systemic risks and drive preventative improvements
Observability & Monitoring
- Design and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Improve signal-to-noise ratio in alerts and reduce alert fatigue
- Build internal tooling for reliability tracking and reporting
- Improve visibility into GPU performance and distributed systems health
Automation & Toil Reduction
- Automate recurring operational workflows
- Build tools and scripts (Python, Go, Bash) to eliminate manual processes
- Improve deployment safety through automation and guardrails
- Strengthen CI/CD reliability and release processes
Cross-Functional Reliability Advocacy
- Partner with engineering teams to improve system resilience
- Provide guidance on fault tolerance, scalability, and failure handling
- Contribute to architectural discussions with a reliability-first mindset
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering
- Strong Linux systems and Networking expertise
- Experience managing containerized production systems
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes
- Experience defining and managing SLIs/SLOs
- Proven incident response and postmortem leadership experience
- Strong scripting or programming skills
- Experience with monitoring and alerting systems
- Excellent written communication skills
- Successful completion of a background check
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML platforms
- Experience improving reliability in high-growth or large scale environments
- Familiarity with GPU observability tooling
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code
- Experience working in startup environments
- Experience building internal reliability platforms or frameworks
What You'll Receive
- The competitive base pay for this position ranges from $150,000 - $200,000 usd. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Runpod and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location.
- Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company - everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.
- Generous medical, dental & vision plans
- Flexible PTO - take the time you need to recharge
- Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication
- Join a passionate team on the cutting edge of AI infrastructure — where culture, learning, and ownership are at the heart of how we scale.
RunPod is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and upholding the principles of equality and respect for all individuals. We believe that diversity in all its forms enhances our team. As an equal opportunity employer, RunPod is committed to creating an inclusive workforce at every level. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Site Reliability Engineer
Verify your SOC code before applying
SRE roles are filed under multiple SOC codes depending on the employer. Check the O*NET occupation profile for Software Developers and Computer Systems Analysts to confirm which code aligns with your actual duties before your employer files the LCA.
Target employers with cap-exempt status
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and certain government entities are cap-exempt and can file H-1B petitions year-round. SRE roles at these organizations bypass the April lottery window entirely, giving you a faster and more predictable path to status.
Search LCA-verified SRE employers on Migrate Mate
Filter by Site Reliability Engineer roles on Migrate Mate to see employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history. This cuts out employers who claim to sponsor but have no DOL filing record to back it up.
Align your title to prevailing wage level early
Employers file LCAs at wage levels I through IV. If your offer is at Level I but your duties match Level III, USCIS may issue an RFE. Use the OFLC Wage Search before your final offer to confirm the wage level fits your responsibilities.
Document on-call and incident response duties precisely
SRE petitions sometimes receive RFEs when job descriptions read as general IT support rather than specialty occupation work. Your offer letter and support documents should specify SLO management, production infrastructure ownership, and systems design to satisfy the specialty occupation standard.
Request premium processing if your start date is fixed
USCIS premium processing guarantees a response within 15 business days. For SRE roles with a hard project start date or a team dependency, premium processing reduces the risk of a delayed adjudication pushing your onboarding past the October 1 cap date.
H-1B Visa Site Reliability Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Site Reliability Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. SRE positions qualify because they require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, or a directly related field. USCIS evaluates whether the specific duties, not just the job title, meet the specialty occupation standard. Roles focused on production reliability, infrastructure automation, and SLO design consistently clear this bar.
How do I find employers who have actually sponsored H-1B visas for SRE roles?
Search on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history filtered by role. You can identify which companies have a track record of filing for SRE and adjacent titles, rather than relying on job postings that mention sponsorship without any DOL filing record to confirm it.
Can I switch to an SRE role from a different H-1B job title mid-status?
Yes, but your employer must file an amended H-1B petition if the new role represents a material change in duties, location, or SOC code. A move from software engineer to SRE at the same company typically triggers an amendment because the job description and prevailing wage level may differ. USCIS allows you to start the new role once the amended petition is filed, not necessarily approved.
What happens to my H-1B if I'm laid off from an SRE position?
You have a 60-day grace period after your last day of employment to find a new sponsor, change status, or depart the U.S. During those 60 days you're not authorized to work. A new employer can file an H-1B transfer petition and you can begin working once USCIS receives it, using portability under AC21 if your prior petition has been pending or approved for 180 days or more.
Do SRE roles at cloud companies typically qualify for H-1B cap exemption?
Not usually. Cap exemption applies to employers that are institutions of higher education, affiliated nonprofit entities, or nonprofit or government research organizations, not to private cloud or technology companies regardless of size. SRE roles at most commercial employers are cap-subject, meaning your petition must be filed during the April registration window for an October start.