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H-1B1 Chile visa sponsorship lets Chilean software engineers work in the U.S. without entering the H-1B lottery. With a 1,400-visa annual cap that rarely fills and consulate-based processing, qualified candidates with a U.S. job offer in a specialty occupation can secure status faster than most work visa routes.
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Want to change the world with Big Data and Analytics? Come join us on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team!
EMR is a massively scaled distributed service that gives users fast and predictable Big Data performance with clusters running Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Impala, Spark, Presto, HBase and more, with the ability to effortlessly scale up and down as needed. We run millions of customer clusters, enabling processing on vast datasets.
We are developing innovative new features including the next-generation cluster management system, real-time processing for big data and intuitive ways of interacting with data, and we’re looking for top engineers to build them from the ground up.
This is a hands-on position where you will be doing everything from designing and building extremely stable components and features for the savviest customers in the business to help them get the best results.
You will have a chance to work with the open source community and contribute significant portions of its software to open source projects possibly including Hadoop, Spark, Pig and HBase. You need to not only be a top software developer with excellent programming skills, an understanding of big data and parallelization, and a stellar record of delivery but also excel at leadership and customer obsession and have a real passion for massive-scale computing. If you want to truly test your mettle against the hardest challenges in distributed systems to build solutions for large scale problems in a wide variety of domains, come join our group.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Key job responsibilities
- Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
- Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality, on time
- Develop new technologies for monitoring production clusters
- Own the software development process end-to-end, including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing, architecting, planning, implementing, and testing new systems and features; deploying, and operating the production EMR systems.
About the team
About AWS
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Want to change the world with Big Data and Analytics? Come join us on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team!
EMR is a massively scaled distributed service that gives users fast and predictable Big Data performance with clusters running Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Impala, Spark, Presto, HBase and more, with the ability to effortlessly scale up and down as needed. We run millions of customer clusters, enabling processing on vast datasets.
We are developing innovative new features including the next-generation cluster management system, real-time processing for big data and intuitive ways of interacting with data, and we’re looking for top engineers to build them from the ground up.
This is a hands-on position where you will be doing everything from designing and building extremely stable components and features for the savviest customers in the business to help them get the best results.
You will have a chance to work with the open source community and contribute significant portions of its software to open source projects possibly including Hadoop, Spark, Pig and HBase. You need to not only be a top software developer with excellent programming skills, an understanding of big data and parallelization, and a stellar record of delivery but also excel at leadership and customer obsession and have a real passion for massive-scale computing. If you want to truly test your mettle against the hardest challenges in distributed systems to build solutions for large scale problems in a wide variety of domains, come join our group.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Key job responsibilities
- Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
- Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality, on time
- Develop new technologies for monitoring production clusters
- Own the software development process end-to-end, including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing, architecting, planning, implementing, and testing new systems and features; deploying, and operating the production EMR systems.
About the team
About AWS
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
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Confirm your role meets specialty occupation
H-1B1 visa requires a theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge. Use O*NET to verify your software engineering job zone and confirm your bachelor's degree field directly supports the offered role before applying.
Request LCA certification before your interview
Your employer must file and receive a certified Labor Condition Application from DOL before your consulate appointment. Delays here are the most common reason Chilean applicants miss their interview window, so confirm certification timing upfront.
Target employers enrolled in E-Verify
Employers who already use E-Verify understand federal employment authorization requirements and are more familiar with nonimmigrant work authorization workflows. This signals operational readiness for H-1B1 visa sponsorship rather than a first-time learning curve.
Use Migrate Mate to find H-1B1-filing employers
Search for software engineering roles on Migrate Mate, which filters employers by H-1B1 Chile LCA filing history. This narrows your list to companies that have actively sponsored Chilean professionals rather than those who may sponsor in theory.
Verify your prevailing wage tier before negotiating
Run your target job title and location through the OFLC Wage Search to identify the DOL wage level your employer must certify. Level I and Level II distinctions affect what salary the LCA can support and what you can negotiate.
Prepare a credential evaluation for non-four-year degrees
Consular officers may question Chilean licenciatura degrees that differ structurally from U.S. bachelor's degrees. A credential evaluation from a NACES-member evaluator documenting U.S. equivalency strengthens your specialty occupation documentation at the visa interview.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a software engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B1 Chile visa?
Yes. Software engineering consistently qualifies as a specialty occupation because the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. Your employer confirms this in the Labor Condition Application and supporting documentation. If your job title is broad, the position description must establish that the work requires that specific degree field.
How does the H-1B1 Chile visa differ from the H-1B for software engineers?
The H-1B1 Chile visa has no lottery, a 1,400-visa annual cap that has never been exhausted, and is processed at the U.S. consulate in Chile rather than through USCIS. H-1B requires employer petition approval through USCIS before consular processing and enters a lottery when oversubscribed. For Chilean software engineers with a job offer, the H-1B1 path is significantly faster and more predictable.
Where can I find software engineer employers who have sponsored H-1B1 Chile visas?
Migrate Mate filters software engineering roles by employers with H-1B1 Chile LCA filing history, so you can target companies that have actively gone through the sponsorship process for Chilean nationals. This is more reliable than reaching out to employers who indicate general visa sponsorship willingness without a track record specific to the H-1B1.
Can my employer sponsor me for H-1B1 without prior immigration experience?
Yes, but the process has specific DOL and consulate requirements your employer must meet, including filing a certified LCA before your visa interview. Employers new to H-1B1 visa sponsorship often underestimate LCA lead times or misclassify the prevailing wage level. Walking your employer through the USCIS H-1B1 guidance early reduces filing errors that delay your start date.
Does the H-1B1 Chile visa allow dual intent for software engineers pursuing a green card?
No. The H-1B1 visa is a nonimmigrant visa that does not permit dual intent, meaning you cannot simultaneously maintain an immigrant visa petition without jeopardizing your H-1B1 status. Software engineers planning a long-term green card path typically need to transition to H-1B or another immigrant-intent-compatible status before beginning that process.