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Principal Engineer roles qualify for H-1B1 Singapore visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field. Singaporean nationals bypass the H-1B lottery entirely, with a 5,400-visa annual cap that has never been exhausted, and apply directly at the U.S. consulate in Singapore.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors - Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together - help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Principal Analyst – Security Operations
Our Cyber Security organization works across Expedia Group to protect the travelers, partners, employees, and platforms that power global travel. We build and operate resilient, intelligence-driven security capabilities spanning security operations, threat detection and response, security engineering, identity, data, and cloud security—reducing cyber risk while enabling trusted, secure innovation at scale.
The Security Operations team partners with technology, product, and platform teams to detect, investigate, contain, and recover from threats while continuously improving the automation, telemetry, and operating models that keep Expedia Group secure. As part of this team, a Principal Security Operations leader will help set the technical direction for modern, AI-enabled defense capabilities, turn complex signals into decisive action, and strengthen a proactive, measurable security posture across the enterprise.
In this role you will:
- Lead complex security operations analyses to detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated threats across Expedia Group’s environments, driving clear, measurable risk reduction.
- Design, optimize, and standardize security monitoring and incident response workflows, including runbooks, playbooks, and escalation paths, to improve speed, quality, and consistency of response.
- Partner with engineering, incident management, and product teams to translate security findings into actionable technical requirements and remediation plans, influencing roadmaps across multiple domains.
- Develop and maintain advanced analytics, detections, dashboards, and reporting that provide deep visibility into security posture, threat trends, and operational performance for senior stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across global security operations, shaping best practices for log management, alert tuning, investigation techniques, and use of SOAR/SIEM and related tooling.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve detection, triage, and response outcomes, building familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world security operations scenarios.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in security operations.
- Extensive experience in security operations, including hands-on incident detection, investigation, and response across large-scale or complex environments.
- Proven ownership of security operations across multiple services or domains, including responsibility for end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and incident handling processes.
- Strong technical expertise in security tooling and infrastructure such as SIEM, EDR, log management, and security analytics platforms, and in interpreting complex telemetry for threat detection.
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows in a security context, and the ability to work effectively with data, detections, and automation to improve operational outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced experience operating global, large-scale security operations, including designing and refining detection strategies and incident response capabilities for highly distributed systems.
- Demonstrated leadership in shaping the architecture and integration of security operations tools (for example SIEM, SOAR, EDR, ticketing, and automation platforms) across multiple technical domains.
- Proven track record of driving operational excellence through continuous improvement of metrics, processes, automation, and data-driven decision making in security operations.
- Experience designing, implementing, and tuning AI/ML-supported detections, triage workflows, or automated response actions, ensuring safe and effective use of AI/ML-enabled solutions in production security environments.
- Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders using clear, data-backed insights from security operations, and to mentor others in advanced investigation, threat hunting, and incident management practices.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $231,000.00 to $323,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $369,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors - Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together - help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Principal Analyst – Security Operations
Our Cyber Security organization works across Expedia Group to protect the travelers, partners, employees, and platforms that power global travel. We build and operate resilient, intelligence-driven security capabilities spanning security operations, threat detection and response, security engineering, identity, data, and cloud security—reducing cyber risk while enabling trusted, secure innovation at scale.
The Security Operations team partners with technology, product, and platform teams to detect, investigate, contain, and recover from threats while continuously improving the automation, telemetry, and operating models that keep Expedia Group secure. As part of this team, a Principal Security Operations leader will help set the technical direction for modern, AI-enabled defense capabilities, turn complex signals into decisive action, and strengthen a proactive, measurable security posture across the enterprise.
In this role you will:
- Lead complex security operations analyses to detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated threats across Expedia Group’s environments, driving clear, measurable risk reduction.
- Design, optimize, and standardize security monitoring and incident response workflows, including runbooks, playbooks, and escalation paths, to improve speed, quality, and consistency of response.
- Partner with engineering, incident management, and product teams to translate security findings into actionable technical requirements and remediation plans, influencing roadmaps across multiple domains.
- Develop and maintain advanced analytics, detections, dashboards, and reporting that provide deep visibility into security posture, threat trends, and operational performance for senior stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across global security operations, shaping best practices for log management, alert tuning, investigation techniques, and use of SOAR/SIEM and related tooling.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve detection, triage, and response outcomes, building familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world security operations scenarios.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in security operations.
- Extensive experience in security operations, including hands-on incident detection, investigation, and response across large-scale or complex environments.
- Proven ownership of security operations across multiple services or domains, including responsibility for end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and incident handling processes.
- Strong technical expertise in security tooling and infrastructure such as SIEM, EDR, log management, and security analytics platforms, and in interpreting complex telemetry for threat detection.
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows in a security context, and the ability to work effectively with data, detections, and automation to improve operational outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced experience operating global, large-scale security operations, including designing and refining detection strategies and incident response capabilities for highly distributed systems.
- Demonstrated leadership in shaping the architecture and integration of security operations tools (for example SIEM, SOAR, EDR, ticketing, and automation platforms) across multiple technical domains.
- Proven track record of driving operational excellence through continuous improvement of metrics, processes, automation, and data-driven decision making in security operations.
- Experience designing, implementing, and tuning AI/ML-supported detections, triage workflows, or automated response actions, ensuring safe and effective use of AI/ML-enabled solutions in production security environments.
- Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders using clear, data-backed insights from security operations, and to mentor others in advanced investigation, threat hunting, and incident management practices.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $231,000.00 to $323,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $369,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Principal Engineer
Verify your degree maps to the role
Consular officers assess whether your specific engineering degree directly supports the Principal Engineer position. A software engineering role backed by a computer science degree clears this bar cleanly; a general management degree typically doesn't, even with years of technical experience.
Search DOL LCA filings using Migrate Mate
Filter for Principal Engineer Labor Condition Applications filed under H-1B1 visa to identify which employers have active sponsorship infrastructure. Migrate Mate surfaces this DOL filing history by role, so you can prioritize outreach to companies already familiar with the process.
Request the prevailing wage tier before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your specific occupation code and work location. Run the OFLC Wage Search for SOC code 17-2199 or the closest Principal Engineer equivalent before your offer conversation begins.
Confirm the employer understands H-1B1 distinctions
Many U.S. hiring teams default to H-1B assumptions when they hear 'visa sponsorship.' Clarify upfront that H-1B1 visa for Singaporeans skips USCIS petition filing entirely and goes directly to consular processing, which cuts weeks from the timeline and eliminates lottery risk.
Prepare your specialty occupation documentation early
Collect your degree transcripts, a detailed job description, and any professional engineering credentials before interviews begin. Consular officers at the Singapore U.S. Embassy can request evidence that the role genuinely requires a specialty degree, not just that your employer prefers one.
Align your start date with LCA certification timing
The employer must file and receive DOL LCA certification before your consular appointment. DOL typically certifies LCAs within seven business days, but building in a two-week buffer protects your start date if the filing requires a correction or resubmission.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Singapore purposes?
Yes. Principal Engineer positions require at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a directly related technical field, which satisfies the specialty occupation standard. The consular officer will assess whether the specific job duties genuinely require that degree level, so your employer's job description should make the technical complexity explicit rather than listing broad leadership responsibilities.
How does H-1B1 Singapore compare to H-1B for Principal Engineer roles?
H-1B1 Singapore bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely, so there's no annual registration gamble for Principal Engineer candidates. The annual cap is 5,400 visas and has never been exhausted. Processing goes through the U.S. Embassy in Singapore rather than USCIS, which typically means faster resolution. The main trade-off is that H-1B1 doesn't carry dual-intent protection, so you'll need to demonstrate nonimmigrant intent at each renewal.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring H-1B1 Singapore visas for Principal Engineer positions?
Migrate Mate filters job listings by verified DOL Labor Condition Application filing history, so you can identify employers who have already sponsored H-1B1 visa roles rather than guessing from company size or brand name. Targeting employers with an existing sponsorship track record for senior engineering titles reduces the risk that H-1B1 unfamiliarity kills your offer late in the process.
Can I switch employers after starting work on an H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need a new consular appointment in Singapore before you can begin work for them in the U.S. Unlike H-1B portability rules, H-1B1 visa doesn't allow you to start with a new employer while a petition is pending. Plan for a gap in U.S. employment authorization during the transition if you're already in the country.
What happens to my H-1B1 status if my Principal Engineer role is restructured or I'm laid off?
H-1B1 visa status is tied to the specific employer and role approved on your LCA. A layoff or significant restructuring that changes your job duties or employer of record ends your H-1B1 authorization. You have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer and begin the H-1B1 process, change to another valid status, or depart the U.S. Acting quickly is essential because the grace period doesn't extend for job searching alone.