OPT Site Reliability Engineer Jobs
Site Reliability Engineer jobs on OPT are available across tech, finance, and cloud infrastructure companies. SRE roles typically require a computer science or engineering degree, making them a strong fit for STEM OPT extensions. Most positions offer the 24-month STEM extension, giving you up to three years of total work authorization.
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What makes us Qlik?
A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 15 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.
We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.
The Site Reliability Engineer Role
Join our dynamic team at Qlik as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the security, stability, and scalability of our Qlik and Talend Cloud services. This exciting role offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology and scale challenges as we expand to support millions of transactions across our cloud environment.
What makes this role interesting?
- Exciting Challenges: Take on the responsibility of maintaining the reliability and availability of our cloud platforms, tackling complex problems and driving improvements to enhance performance and scalability.
- Collaborative Environment: Work closely with our Engineering organization, collaborating with Architecture, Platforms, and Domains teams to design and develop new infrastructure features and optimize cloud-related practices.
- Innovative Solutions: Design and develop effective tooling, alerts, and responses to identify and address reliability risks, utilizing your expertise in cloud technology and backend systems.
- Professional Growth: Act as a resource for fellow engineers, sharing your knowledge and expertise in cloud engineering, production service operations, incident management, and troubleshooting.
- Continuous Learning: Stay updated on the latest industry trends and technologies, contributing to the adoption of best practices and driving continuous improvement within our cloud environment.
Here’s how you’ll be making an impact:
- Reliability and Scalability: Ensure high reliability and availability of our cloud platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement new infrastructure features and optimize performance.
- Cloud Optimization: Define and evangelize cloud-related optimizations and best practices, driving improvements in reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Problem Solving: Analyze complex issues at the infrastructure, systems, network, and application levels, making recommendations and decisions to resolve them effectively.
- Knowledge Sharing: Share your expertise with fellow engineers, providing guidance on cloud technologies, automation, security, and best practices.
- On-Call Support: Participate in on-call duties to maintain the availability and performance of our cloud infrastructure, providing regular updates on project status and activities.
We’re looking for a teammate with:
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or a relevant field.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously and multitask effectively.
- Strong analytical skills for solving complex problems and driving innovative solutions.
- 3+ years’ experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, Ansible, or similar.
- 3+ years’ experience working alongside a production system running on Kubernetes.
- 3+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, preferably with AWS and Azure.
- 3+ years of professional experience with operating and/or building microservices.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Bash, Python, Go) and software engineering concepts.
- Experience with CI/CD, cloud and microservice autoscaling.
- Experience with networking security and secret-management tools (e.g. Vault, AWS SSM).
- Proficiency with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Open Telemetry, distributed tracing, and SIEM such as Splunk.
- Experience with Helm including but not limited to managing helm charts as well as creating custom charts from existing ones or building new.
- Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written.
- Curiosity and desire to learn.
- Ability to take a rotating on-call shift.
- Knowledge of infrastructure security review and compliance frameworks.
- Experience working with database concepts and tooling such as MongoDB.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with development teams and provide expert guidance on implementing reliability best practices, ensuring systems are robust, scalable, and highly available.
- Where applicable, experience with or interest in learning other tools such as Temporal, Clik House, Fire Hydrant, Grafana, Solace, Gloo, Isito, and other cloud native related tools.
- Certifications such as CKD, CKS, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty, AWS Certified Security Specialty, all considered assets.
- Ability to obtain sufficient clearance status to work on IL5 systems with Qlik support.
The location for this role is:
Anywhere in the US, preferably on the East Coast
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Apply now and help change how the world transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights and turns complex data challenges into new opportunities!
More about Qlik and who we are:
Find out more about ‘Life at Qlik’ on social: Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and X/Twitter, and to see all other opportunities to join us and our values, check out our Careers Page.
What else do we offer?
- Named in Newsweek’s ‘Americas Greatest Workplaces 2025’.
- Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs.
- Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness.
- Flexible, diverse, and international work environment.
Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs.
Salary and Benefits: The anticipated base salary range for this role is $125,000 USD MIN – $165,000 MAX per year. This position is eligible for 5% premium for joining the on-call rotation schedule. Final compensation offered by Qlik will be based on factors such as the candidate’s location, job-related skills, education, experience, and other business and organizational needs.
This position is eligible for comprehensive benefits, including - but not limited to - medical, dental, and vision coverage life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, paid parental/maternity leave, participation in a 401(k) program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
Application Window: The application window is 60 days, but applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. The posting will be removed before the application window closes if the position is filled.
For positions in Massachusetts: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Qlik is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to fostering a workplace that is diverse, equitable and inclusive.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and related medical conditions, genetic information, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. For United States applicants and employees, go to the US Department of Labor’s website to review the Equal Employment Opportunity Posters, including the “Know Your Rights” and “Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination” posters.
If you need assistance applying for a role due to a disability, please submit your request via email to accessibilityta@qlik.com. Any information you provide will be treated according to Qlik’s Recruitment Privacy Notice. Qlik may only respond to emails related to accommodation requests.
Qlik's recruitment team uses AI-enabled tools to help assess and evaluate candidates' qualifications. Any hiring decision will involve a human review, and you will not be subject to decisions based solely on automated means.
Qlik is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Qlik via email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Qlik. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Qlik as a result of the referral or through other means.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Site Reliability Engineer
Lead with your on-call and incident response experience
SRE hiring managers want to see that you've owned production systems under pressure. Quantify your impact: mention uptime percentages you maintained, incidents you resolved, or MTTR improvements you drove. Numbers signal operational maturity.
Certify in cloud platforms before applying
AWS, GCP, or Azure certifications signal hands-on infrastructure credibility to OPT-sponsoring employers. Many SRE job postings list these as preferred qualifications. Earning one before your job search closes the gap between academic projects and production environments.
Target companies with established OPT STEM extension track records
Large tech companies and cloud-native firms file OPT STEM extensions routinely. Prioritize employers who have sponsored SRE roles before. Browse Migrate Mate to filter specifically for companies actively hiring OPT students in SRE and infrastructure roles.
Frame your thesis or research as production infrastructure work
If your graduate research involved distributed systems, containerization, or large-scale data pipelines, reframe it in SRE terms. Employers sponsoring OPT care about scope and ownership, not just academic framing. Show you built and maintained something at scale.
Address your OPT timeline proactively in applications
SRE roles often involve long ramp-up periods. Mentioning that your STEM-eligible degree qualifies you for up to 36 months of work authorization reassures employers that onboarding investment is protected. Include this briefly in your cover letter or application notes.
Build a portfolio of reliability tooling and runbooks
Public GitHub repositories showing monitoring dashboards, alerting configurations, or infrastructure-as-code projects demonstrate practical SRE skills. OPT-sponsoring employers want evidence you can contribute immediately, and a portfolio removes uncertainty about your technical readiness before the interview.
Site Reliability Engineer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Site Reliability Engineer jobs qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes. SRE roles almost always qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension because they require a degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related STEM field. This gives eligible F-1 students up to 36 months of total OPT work authorization, which significantly reduces the urgency for employers to file an H-1B visa immediately.
How do I find SRE jobs that are open to OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters job listings by sponsorship eligibility. Rather than applying broadly and asking about OPT status mid-process, Migrate Mate lets you browse SRE roles at companies already open to hiring students on work authorization, which saves time and avoids awkward conversations late in the hiring process.
What degree fields support an SRE OPT application?
Computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, information systems, and software engineering degrees all commonly support SRE OPT work authorization. Your degree field must appear on USCIS's official STEM Designated Degree Program list for the STEM extension to apply. If your degree is in a borderline field, confirm with your DSO before applying.
Will SRE employers wait for my OPT EAD card to arrive before my start date?
Most established tech employers are familiar with OPT EAD processing timelines and will negotiate a start date accordingly. You cannot begin working until your EAD card arrives and your OPT start date is reached. File your OPT application 90 days before your program end date to give yourself the maximum buffer before a target start date.
Do I need H-1B sponsorship immediately after getting an SRE job on OPT?
Not immediately. If you qualify for the STEM extension, you have up to 36 months total on OPT before needing H-1B status. That covers roughly three H-1B lottery cycles, which meaningfully improves your odds of selection over time. Many SRE employers file H-1B petitions for OPT employees during this window without requiring you to secure it upfront.