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Staff DevOps Engineer roles in the United States are available to qualified professionals through J-1 visa sponsorship, most commonly under the Trainee or Research Scholar program categories. Designated sponsors issue the DS-2019 and oversee your training plan, while the hiring employer serves as your U.S. host organization.
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Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.
About Trase
Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security.
About The Role
Location: Seattle, WA area
As a Staff Developer Experience Engineer (DevEx), you will own the systems, tooling, and workflows that enable engineers to build, test, and ship on Trase OS quickly and safely. As the first DevEx hire, you will build the base of the platform and team. This is a core platform engineering role, not internal tooling support. You will design and operate the development environment, build systems, and integration infrastructure that allow teams to work effectively in a distributed, multi-service system with strict reliability and security constraints. Your work directly determines engineering velocity, system safety, and the ability to scale the team without increasing risk.
Why this role is needed
Trase OS is a complex, evolving platform with long-lived workflows, multiple services, and deployments across environments with varying security requirements. As system complexity grows, developer friction and release risk become the primary bottlenecks. Without strong DevEx ownership:
- Cross-service changes become slow and error-prone
- Integration issues surface late (or in production)
- Local development diverges from production reality
- Each team reinvents workflows instead of building on shared foundations
This role exists to:
- Create paved roads for development and testing
- Ensure engineers can make changes confidently across services and environments
- Turn platform complexity into repeatable, reliable developer workflows
You will work on:
- A shared platform powering all Trase deployments
- Multi-service systems with complex integration points
- Development and testing workflows that must reflect real production behavior
- Tooling that enables safe iteration in security- and compliance-sensitive environments
You will:
- Design and maintain local development environments that mirror production behavior as closely as possible
- Build and operate build systems, CI pipelines, and test orchestration for multi-service systems
- Own integration and end-to-end testing infrastructure, including:
- Test environments and fixtures
- Cross-service test coordination
- Flake detection and reduction
- Develop internal tooling (CLI, SDKs, scaffolding) that standardizes how engineers interact with the platform
- Create repeatable workflows for building, testing, and deploying changes across services
- Improve developer feedback loops (build times, test reliability, debugging workflows)
- Partner with DevOps/SRE to ensure development workflows align with production reliability and deployment systems
- Establish and maintain runbooks, templates, and onboarding systems that reduce ramp time and inconsistency
Staff-level technical leadership
- Define and drive the developer experience strategy across Trase OS
- Establish standards for:
- Build and test systems
- Local development environments
- Cross-service integration workflows
- Identify and eliminate systemic sources of developer friction
- Partner with platform and product engineers to ensure new systems are designed with operability and testability in mind
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for engineering productivity and development ergonomics
Qualifications
Required
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant focus on developer tooling, build systems, or platform engineering
- Experience working in multi-service or distributed systems environments
- Strong experience with:
- CI/CD systems and build tooling
- Test infrastructure (integration / E2E)
- Developer tooling (CLIs, SDKs, scaffolding)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals (ability to build and maintain internal platforms/tools)
- Proven ability to improve developer velocity and system reliability simultaneously
- Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives
- Experience integrating LLMs into developer tooling, build systems, or internal platforms to improve engineering productivity
Nice to have
- Experience designing local-first or production-like dev environments (e.g., containerized or ephemeral environments)
- Experience reducing test flakiness at scale
- Familiarity with observability tooling for debugging developer workflows
- Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning with educational reimbursements.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits through TARA Mind.
Some travel is required. If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology, building AI solutions for the future, and are up for a challenge, let’s talk!
Salary Range: $170,000-230,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
Our Red Cell Partners Benefits:
For full-time roles
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
- Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
Applicant Data Disclosure
By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC ("Red Cell") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, "Hiring Platforms"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes:
- Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process;
- Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases;
- Identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories.
Applications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact talent@redcellpartners.com.
Red Cell requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. Your information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes and any applicable legal obligations, after which it will be deleted in accordance with Red Cell's data retention policies.
For more information about how your data is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy and Applicant Privacy Notice.
About us
Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.
About Trase
Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security.
About The Role
Location: Seattle, WA area
As a Staff Developer Experience Engineer (DevEx), you will own the systems, tooling, and workflows that enable engineers to build, test, and ship on Trase OS quickly and safely. As the first DevEx hire, you will build the base of the platform and team. This is a core platform engineering role, not internal tooling support. You will design and operate the development environment, build systems, and integration infrastructure that allow teams to work effectively in a distributed, multi-service system with strict reliability and security constraints. Your work directly determines engineering velocity, system safety, and the ability to scale the team without increasing risk.
Why this role is needed
Trase OS is a complex, evolving platform with long-lived workflows, multiple services, and deployments across environments with varying security requirements. As system complexity grows, developer friction and release risk become the primary bottlenecks. Without strong DevEx ownership:
- Cross-service changes become slow and error-prone
- Integration issues surface late (or in production)
- Local development diverges from production reality
- Each team reinvents workflows instead of building on shared foundations
This role exists to:
- Create paved roads for development and testing
- Ensure engineers can make changes confidently across services and environments
- Turn platform complexity into repeatable, reliable developer workflows
You will work on:
- A shared platform powering all Trase deployments
- Multi-service systems with complex integration points
- Development and testing workflows that must reflect real production behavior
- Tooling that enables safe iteration in security- and compliance-sensitive environments
You will:
- Design and maintain local development environments that mirror production behavior as closely as possible
- Build and operate build systems, CI pipelines, and test orchestration for multi-service systems
- Own integration and end-to-end testing infrastructure, including:
- Test environments and fixtures
- Cross-service test coordination
- Flake detection and reduction
- Develop internal tooling (CLI, SDKs, scaffolding) that standardizes how engineers interact with the platform
- Create repeatable workflows for building, testing, and deploying changes across services
- Improve developer feedback loops (build times, test reliability, debugging workflows)
- Partner with DevOps/SRE to ensure development workflows align with production reliability and deployment systems
- Establish and maintain runbooks, templates, and onboarding systems that reduce ramp time and inconsistency
Staff-level technical leadership
- Define and drive the developer experience strategy across Trase OS
- Establish standards for:
- Build and test systems
- Local development environments
- Cross-service integration workflows
- Identify and eliminate systemic sources of developer friction
- Partner with platform and product engineers to ensure new systems are designed with operability and testability in mind
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for engineering productivity and development ergonomics
Qualifications
Required
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant focus on developer tooling, build systems, or platform engineering
- Experience working in multi-service or distributed systems environments
- Strong experience with:
- CI/CD systems and build tooling
- Test infrastructure (integration / E2E)
- Developer tooling (CLIs, SDKs, scaffolding)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals (ability to build and maintain internal platforms/tools)
- Proven ability to improve developer velocity and system reliability simultaneously
- Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives
- Experience integrating LLMs into developer tooling, build systems, or internal platforms to improve engineering productivity
Nice to have
- Experience designing local-first or production-like dev environments (e.g., containerized or ephemeral environments)
- Experience reducing test flakiness at scale
- Familiarity with observability tooling for debugging developer workflows
- Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning with educational reimbursements.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits through TARA Mind.
Some travel is required. If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology, building AI solutions for the future, and are up for a challenge, let’s talk!
Salary Range: $170,000-230,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
Our Red Cell Partners Benefits:
For full-time roles
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
- Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
Applicant Data Disclosure
By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC ("Red Cell") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, "Hiring Platforms"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes:
- Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process;
- Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases;
- Identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories.
Applications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact talent@redcellpartners.com.
Red Cell requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. Your information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes and any applicable legal obligations, after which it will be deleted in accordance with Red Cell's data retention policies.
For more information about how your data is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy and Applicant Privacy Notice.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding J-1 Visa Sponsorship as a Staff Devops Engineer
Align your training plan to DevOps competencies
Your DS-2019 training plan must map your DevOps skills to specific U.S. host activities. Document prior experience in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud platforms before applying so designated sponsors can draft an accurate, approvable plan.
Identify host employers with active J-1 programs
Search Migrate Mate to find U.S. companies already partnered with State Department-designated sponsors. Firms with existing J-1 host relationships move faster through DS-2019 issuance than those setting up a new arrangement from scratch.
Verify your DevOps role qualifies under Trainee or Research Scholar
J-1 Trainee category suits early-career engineers who graduated within the past 12 months or have fewer than one year of post-degree experience. Research Scholar fits those joining university or national-lab DevOps infrastructure teams on a research mandate.
Check the two-year home residency requirement early
Some J-1 participants funded by government grants or from specific countries must return home for two years after their program ends. Confirm your eligibility for a 212(e) waiver with your designated sponsor before accepting a host employer offer.
Benchmark your offer against OFLC Wage Search data
Your host employer must pay the prevailing wage for your DevOps role and location. Cross-reference your offer against OFLC Wage Search and the O*NET profile for Software Developers or Systems Administrators to confirm compliance before your training plan is submitted.
Request written confirmation of sponsor SEVIS compliance procedures
Ask your designated sponsor how they handle SEVIS reporting, 30-day check-ins, and program extensions. Sponsors like Cultural Vistas and CIEE have established compliance workflows, but you need to understand the exact reporting obligations your host employer must meet.
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Find Staff Devops Engineer JobsStaff Devops Engineer J-1 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Which J-1 program category applies to Staff DevOps Engineer positions?
The Trainee category covers DevOps engineers who completed a degree or professional training within the past 24 months and want structured U.S. work experience. Research Scholar applies when the role is housed within a university, federal lab, or research institute. Staff-level roles at commercial tech companies most commonly fall under Trainee, with the designated sponsor issuing the DS-2019 and overseeing a formal training plan.
Who actually sponsors the J-1 visa for a DevOps engineering role?
The visa sponsor is a U.S. Department of State-designated organization, not your hiring employer. Organizations such as IIE, CIEE, Cultural Vistas, and AIPT issue the DS-2019 form and are legally responsible for program compliance. Your employer is the host organization. This distinction matters because you must identify a designated sponsor separately from your job search, and both parties must agree to your training plan before SEVIS can be activated.
Does the J-1 two-year home residency requirement affect DevOps engineers?
It can. The 212(e) home residency requirement applies if your J-1 program is funded by a U.S. or home-country government agency, or if your home country is on the Exchange Visitor Skills List. DevOps engineers coming from certain tech-workforce-priority countries may be subject to it. Your designated sponsor will confirm your 212(e) status before issuing the DS-2019, and a waiver is possible through specific channels including a no-objection statement from your home country.
How do I find U.S. employers open to hosting a J-1 DevOps engineer?
Use Migrate Mate to search for DevOps and infrastructure engineering roles at companies familiar with J-1 host obligations. Employers who have hosted J-1 participants before understand the training plan requirements and the designated sponsor relationship, which significantly reduces onboarding friction. Targeting those employers shortens the time between offer and DS-2019 issuance compared to approaching companies with no prior J-1 experience.
Can a Staff DevOps Engineer on J-1 change host employers mid-program?
Changing host employers requires your designated sponsor's approval and a revised training plan. The new host must meet the same J-1 host requirements as the original employer, and SEVIS records must be updated before you begin work. If the program category no longer fits the new role, you may need to end the current program and reapply under a different designation, which resets the DS-2019 and program timeline.
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