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Staff DevOps Engineers occupy a specialty occupation category that qualifies for H-1B visa sponsorship, with roles typically requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. Large tech, fintech, and enterprise software companies file LCAs for this title regularly, making it one of the more sponsorship-active senior engineering roles.
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Location: Burlingame, CA
Department: ESS Engineering
Reports to: Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Position Type: Full-time
About the Company
Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven sodium-ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid.
Sodium-ion is cheap, readily available, and safe — making it the leading contender in a rapidly evolving market.
Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, Apple, Powin, Enovix, Zipline, Solid Power, SunPower, and Fluence. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners including TDK Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, and GM Ventures.
We recently announced America's first sodium-ion grid storage factory in Sacramento with production starting Q1 2027, and over $1B in signed customer commitments including Jupiter Power and Energy Vault.
About the Role
Peak Energy is looking for a DevOps Engineer to build and scale the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation systems supporting our grid-scale battery storage technology.
As Peak grows from pilot deployments to gigawatt-scale production, our software infrastructure must scale alongside our products. You'll help establish the foundation that enables our engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy software efficiently and reliably.
This is a hands-on infrastructure engineering role focused on cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, database provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation. You'll build and maintain the systems that connect our development environments, manufacturing operations, and deployed battery systems to the cloud.
You'll work closely with software, test, and manufacturing engineering teams to improve automation, reliability, and scalability across our software infrastructure.
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting Peak's battery storage software, data pipelines, and engineering applications.
- Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for software builds, testing, and deployment across development and production environments.
- Define, provision, and manage cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, establishing scalable and repeatable infrastructure practices as Peak expands its manufacturing operations and deployed battery fleet.
- Partner with software and test engineering teams to integrate automated testing and validation into development and deployment workflows.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and observability.
What You'll Bring (Minimum Qualifications)
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a related technical role.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or equivalent tooling.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience deploying and managing cloud databases, including PostgreSQL or similar relational database systems.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages for infrastructure automation.
- Experience with cloud networking, access management, monitoring, and infrastructure security.
- Experience supporting software deployments and troubleshooting production infrastructure.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized application deployments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft Azure services, including Azure Functions, Service Bus, Azure Monitor, or Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
- Experience with IoT device infrastructure and management.
- Experience supporting automated testing infrastructure, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or engineering validation environments.
- Familiarity with data ingestion pipelines, streaming infrastructure, or cloud-connected devices.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or Application Insights.
- Experience supporting manufacturing systems, industrial automation, IoT, or hardware-integrated software.
- Familiarity with database administration, backup and recovery, and infrastructure performance optimization.
- Prior experience building infrastructure and deployment processes in an early-stage or rapidly scaling engineering organization.
Our Core Values
- Speed Through Focus — Move fast but understand why. Focus on the goal, don't sacrifice quality.
- Mission Over Self — Put the company's mission and team success ahead of individual interests.
- Face the Brutal Truth — Transparency, honesty, big-picture curiosity. Fearless decision making.
- Be a Good Person — Kindness, collaboration, and teamwork.
Compensation & Benefits
The salary range for this role is $180,000 - $240,000, with actual pay varying based on work location, experience, and skills. Our competitive benefits package includes:
- Flexible time off
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Strong 401(k) plan
- Equity opportunities
- Many great work perks
Join us to thrive in a supportive environment while making a meaningful impact in the energy sector!
At Peak Energy Technologies Inc., we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace makes us a more capable, innovative, and competitive company. We welcome people who represent diversity in their backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Peak Energy Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, aiming to reach our company's full potential by cultivating an inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
DevOps Engineer
Location: Burlingame, CA
Department: ESS Engineering
Reports to: Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Position Type: Full-time
About the Company
Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven sodium-ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid.
Sodium-ion is cheap, readily available, and safe — making it the leading contender in a rapidly evolving market.
Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, Apple, Powin, Enovix, Zipline, Solid Power, SunPower, and Fluence. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners including TDK Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, and GM Ventures.
We recently announced America's first sodium-ion grid storage factory in Sacramento with production starting Q1 2027, and over $1B in signed customer commitments including Jupiter Power and Energy Vault.
About the Role
Peak Energy is looking for a DevOps Engineer to build and scale the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation systems supporting our grid-scale battery storage technology.
As Peak grows from pilot deployments to gigawatt-scale production, our software infrastructure must scale alongside our products. You'll help establish the foundation that enables our engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy software efficiently and reliably.
This is a hands-on infrastructure engineering role focused on cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, database provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation. You'll build and maintain the systems that connect our development environments, manufacturing operations, and deployed battery systems to the cloud.
You'll work closely with software, test, and manufacturing engineering teams to improve automation, reliability, and scalability across our software infrastructure.
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting Peak's battery storage software, data pipelines, and engineering applications.
- Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for software builds, testing, and deployment across development and production environments.
- Define, provision, and manage cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, establishing scalable and repeatable infrastructure practices as Peak expands its manufacturing operations and deployed battery fleet.
- Partner with software and test engineering teams to integrate automated testing and validation into development and deployment workflows.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and observability.
What You'll Bring (Minimum Qualifications)
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a related technical role.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or equivalent tooling.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience deploying and managing cloud databases, including PostgreSQL or similar relational database systems.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages for infrastructure automation.
- Experience with cloud networking, access management, monitoring, and infrastructure security.
- Experience supporting software deployments and troubleshooting production infrastructure.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized application deployments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft Azure services, including Azure Functions, Service Bus, Azure Monitor, or Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
- Experience with IoT device infrastructure and management.
- Experience supporting automated testing infrastructure, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or engineering validation environments.
- Familiarity with data ingestion pipelines, streaming infrastructure, or cloud-connected devices.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or Application Insights.
- Experience supporting manufacturing systems, industrial automation, IoT, or hardware-integrated software.
- Familiarity with database administration, backup and recovery, and infrastructure performance optimization.
- Prior experience building infrastructure and deployment processes in an early-stage or rapidly scaling engineering organization.
Our Core Values
- Speed Through Focus — Move fast but understand why. Focus on the goal, don't sacrifice quality.
- Mission Over Self — Put the company's mission and team success ahead of individual interests.
- Face the Brutal Truth — Transparency, honesty, big-picture curiosity. Fearless decision making.
- Be a Good Person — Kindness, collaboration, and teamwork.
Compensation & Benefits
The salary range for this role is $180,000 - $240,000, with actual pay varying based on work location, experience, and skills. Our competitive benefits package includes:
- Flexible time off
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Strong 401(k) plan
- Equity opportunities
- Many great work perks
Join us to thrive in a supportive environment while making a meaningful impact in the energy sector!
At Peak Energy Technologies Inc., we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace makes us a more capable, innovative, and competitive company. We welcome people who represent diversity in their backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Peak Energy Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, aiming to reach our company's full potential by cultivating an inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Staff Devops Engineer
Align your resume to SOC codes
LCA filings use Standard Occupational Classification codes, and Staff DevOps Engineers most often fall under SOC 15-1244. Framing your resume around infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE responsibilities strengthens the specialty occupation argument your employer must make to USCIS.
Search LCA filing history before applying
Use Migrate Mate to filter Staff DevOps Engineer roles by employers with verified LCA filing history, so you're targeting companies that have already navigated the H-1B process for this exact occupation code rather than guessing at sponsorship willingness.
Confirm prevailing wage tier before negotiating
Run your target title and work location through the OFLC Wage Search before any offer conversation. DOL sets four wage levels for each SOC code, and your offer must meet the certified LCA wage, so knowing Level III or Level IV thresholds for your metro gives you a realistic floor.
Distinguish staff from senior on your credentials
Hiring managers and immigration counsel both scrutinize whether your experience justifies a staff-level designation, which affects the wage tier on the LCA. Document system-wide ownership, cross-team technical leadership, and scope of infrastructure decisions explicitly in your portfolio and resume.
Ask about cap-exempt entity affiliations early
If a company has a nonprofit research arm or university partnership, it may qualify as cap-exempt, letting your petition bypass the annual H-1B lottery entirely. Ask HR whether the entity sponsoring your role has filed cap-exempt petitions before the offer stage, not after.
Time your start date around the October 1 activation window
Cap-subject H-1B petitions have an April filing window and an October 1 employment start date. If you're on OPT, verify your OPT end date against both the lottery timeline and any cap-gap protection period USCIS provides so you don't have an unauthorized gap between statuses.
H-1B Visa Staff Devops Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Staff DevOps Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS evaluates specialty occupation based on whether the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. Staff DevOps Engineer roles involving infrastructure architecture, platform engineering, and systems reliability consistently meet this threshold. The O*NET profile for related SOC codes confirms the theoretical and practical application of computer science knowledge required.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for Staff DevOps Engineers?
Enterprise software companies, cloud infrastructure firms, fintech organizations, and large-scale e-commerce platforms are the most active sponsors for this title. These employers file LCAs regularly under SOC codes tied to software and network systems occupations. You can browse verified sponsors filtered by this role on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with documented DOL Labor Condition Application filing history.
What happens to my H-1B status if I change employers after sponsorship?
You can change employers under H-1B portability rules once your petition has been approved and you've worked in H-1B status for at least a short period. Your new employer must file an H-1B transfer petition before your current status ends. For Staff DevOps Engineers, the new LCA must reflect the prevailing wage for your role and work location at the new company.
How does the H-1B lottery affect my job search timeline as a DevOps professional?
Cap-subject petitions are filed in April for an October 1 start date, so if you're selected in the lottery, there's typically a six-month gap between filing and employment authorization. Some employers offer bridge arrangements or remote contracts during this window. If the target employer qualifies as cap-exempt, this timeline doesn't apply and your petition can be filed and approved year-round.
What documentation strengthens an H-1B petition for a Staff DevOps Engineer?
Your employer's counsel will need documentation showing the role requires a specialized degree and that your credentials match. Useful materials include a detailed job description specifying technical scope, your degree transcripts, any cloud or platform certifications, and evidence of staff-level responsibilities such as architecture ownership or cross-functional technical leadership. USCIS may issue a Request for Evidence if the specialty occupation argument isn't sufficiently detailed in the initial filing.