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SRE Engineer roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under the computer occupations category, typically requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Employers filing H-1B petitions for SRE positions must certify a prevailing wage through a DOL Labor Condition Application before USCIS adjudicates the petition.
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Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Site Reliability Engineer II
The BizOps team at Mastercard is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who thrives on solving complex problems, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and leading the organization in DevOps automation and best practices.
Are You:
- A natural problem-solver who loves to understand how things work?
- Passionate about CI/CD and obsessed with automation?
- Someone with a low tolerance for manual tasks, always seeking ways to automate?
If yes, we want to hear from you.
About the BizOps Team
Business Operations (BizOps) is at the forefront of Mastercard’s DevOps transformation, leading the charge through tooling, automation, and advocacy across development, quality, release, and product teams.
We’re looking for individuals who:
- Have an appetite for change.
- Push the boundaries of what automation can achieve.
- Build strong relationships across development, operations, and product teams.
Mission
BizOps ensures production readiness by partnering closely with developers to design, build, implement, and support services. Key responsibilities include:
- Ensuring operational excellence in availability, performance, capacity, monitoring, self-healing, and deployment automation.
- Supporting daily operations with a focus on root cause analysis and business impact.
- Driving the “shift-left” approach, engaging early in development to enhance reliability.
- Managing risk and compliance across all environments.
- Standardizing and streamlining traditional support functions.
- Acting as a key communication bridge between internal and external stakeholders.
- Aligning product and customer priorities with operational needs.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the entire service lifecycle – from design to deployment and operations.
- Analyze ITSM platform activities and provide feedback to development teams on operational gaps and resiliency issues.
- Provide system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch readiness support.
- Monitor and maintain system availability, latency, and health.
- Scale systems through automation and reliability-focused improvements.
- Support and improve the CI/CD pipeline for software promotion, enforcing validation and operational gating.
- Lead DevOps automation initiatives and best practices at Mastercard.
- Drive sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
- Take a holistic approach to problem-solving during production incidents, improving Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Work effectively with a globally distributed team across multiple time zones.
- Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers.
Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (e.g., Physics, Mathematics) or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, scripting, software design, and pipeline management.
- Systematic problem-solving approach with excellent communication, ownership, and drive.
- Experience debugging and optimizing code, and automating manual tasks.
- Ability to handle high-pressure situations and make decisions with urgency.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems and troubleshooting them effectively.
- Experience with CI/CD tools, such as:
- Git/BitBucket
- Jenkins
- Maven
- Artifactory
- Chef
- Strong background in designing and implementing efficient CI/CD flows that get code from development to production with high quality and minimal manual effort.
- Proven track record of working across development, operations, and product teams.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $76,000 - $127,000 USD
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Site Reliability Engineer II
The BizOps team at Mastercard is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who thrives on solving complex problems, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and leading the organization in DevOps automation and best practices.
Are You:
- A natural problem-solver who loves to understand how things work?
- Passionate about CI/CD and obsessed with automation?
- Someone with a low tolerance for manual tasks, always seeking ways to automate?
If yes, we want to hear from you.
About the BizOps Team
Business Operations (BizOps) is at the forefront of Mastercard’s DevOps transformation, leading the charge through tooling, automation, and advocacy across development, quality, release, and product teams.
We’re looking for individuals who:
- Have an appetite for change.
- Push the boundaries of what automation can achieve.
- Build strong relationships across development, operations, and product teams.
Mission
BizOps ensures production readiness by partnering closely with developers to design, build, implement, and support services. Key responsibilities include:
- Ensuring operational excellence in availability, performance, capacity, monitoring, self-healing, and deployment automation.
- Supporting daily operations with a focus on root cause analysis and business impact.
- Driving the “shift-left” approach, engaging early in development to enhance reliability.
- Managing risk and compliance across all environments.
- Standardizing and streamlining traditional support functions.
- Acting as a key communication bridge between internal and external stakeholders.
- Aligning product and customer priorities with operational needs.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the entire service lifecycle – from design to deployment and operations.
- Analyze ITSM platform activities and provide feedback to development teams on operational gaps and resiliency issues.
- Provide system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch readiness support.
- Monitor and maintain system availability, latency, and health.
- Scale systems through automation and reliability-focused improvements.
- Support and improve the CI/CD pipeline for software promotion, enforcing validation and operational gating.
- Lead DevOps automation initiatives and best practices at Mastercard.
- Drive sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
- Take a holistic approach to problem-solving during production incidents, improving Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Work effectively with a globally distributed team across multiple time zones.
- Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers.
Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (e.g., Physics, Mathematics) or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, scripting, software design, and pipeline management.
- Systematic problem-solving approach with excellent communication, ownership, and drive.
- Experience debugging and optimizing code, and automating manual tasks.
- Ability to handle high-pressure situations and make decisions with urgency.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems and troubleshooting them effectively.
- Experience with CI/CD tools, such as:
- Git/BitBucket
- Jenkins
- Maven
- Artifactory
- Chef
- Strong background in designing and implementing efficient CI/CD flows that get code from development to production with high quality and minimal manual effort.
- Proven track record of working across development, operations, and product teams.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $76,000 - $127,000 USD
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Sre Engineer
Align your resume to LCA job codes
SRE roles get filed under DOL occupation codes like Software Developers or Computer Occupations. Match your resume's language to the SOC code your target employer uses, so your credentials map cleanly to the LCA they'll file.
Verify your degree satisfies specialty occupation
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree field and the SRE role. A computer science or software engineering degree is the cleanest path. Related fields like electrical engineering or information systems can qualify if your coursework covers systems reliability concepts.
Search for employers with active LCA filings
Use Migrate Mate to filter SRE roles by employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application history, so you're applying to companies that have already cleared the DOL filing process rather than employers figuring it out for the first time.
Clarify infrastructure ownership before accepting offers
SRE roles at staffing vendors or consulting firms often place you at a client site, which creates a secondary employer relationship USCIS scrutinizes heavily. Before accepting an offer, confirm whether the petitioning employer controls your day-to-day work assignments.
Request premium processing for time-sensitive transitions
If you're changing employers within your 60-day grace period, standard H-1B processing timelines can push past your authorized stay. Ask your new employer to file with USCIS premium processing to get a decision within 15 business days.
Document on-call and incident-response work for RFEs
USCIS sometimes issues Requests for Evidence questioning whether SRE duties are truly specialty occupation. Detailed offer letters listing reliability engineering responsibilities, SLO ownership, and incident command work strengthen your petition against that challenge.
H-1B Visa Sre Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an SRE Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. SRE Engineer positions fall under USCIS's computer occupations category and consistently meet the specialty occupation standard when the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. The O*NET profile for this occupation lists a bachelor's degree as the typical entry-level education, which supports the specialty occupation argument in most petitions.
How do I find SRE Engineer employers who sponsor H-1B visas?
Search Migrate Mate for SRE Engineer roles filtered by verified H-1B sponsorship history. Employers with active Labor Condition Application filings on record have already demonstrated willingness and ability to sponsor. Targeting these companies shortens your job search significantly compared to approaching employers who have never filed an H-1B petition before.
What wage level should my H-1B petition list for an SRE Engineer role?
Your employer must certify a prevailing wage at or above the DOL wage level that matches your experience and job duties. SRE roles with significant autonomy, on-call ownership, and cross-functional responsibilities often warrant Level III or Level IV wages. You can check applicable wage floors by SOC code and location using the OFLC Wage Search before evaluating any offer.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new SRE employer mid-year without losing status?
Yes, under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new employer as soon as they file a non-frivolous H-1B transfer petition, even before USCIS approves it. Your previous employer's approved H-1B is what enables the transfer, so you don't need to wait for a new cap selection. The 60-day grace period after leaving your prior job gives you a window to initiate this process.
Does working as a contractor or through a staffing agency affect my H-1B as an SRE?
It can complicate your petition. USCIS applies an end-client relationship test to SRE roles placed at client sites, requiring the petitioning employer to demonstrate it controls your work. Itinerary letters, master service agreements, and statements of work that show employer control over your reliability engineering duties are typically required. Direct-hire SRE roles avoid this scrutiny entirely.