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SRE Engineer roles are among the most actively sponsored positions in tech, making them a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with backgrounds in computer science, systems engineering, or software development. Most employers filing for OPT candidates in this space require hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, incident response, and automation tooling.
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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software development and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We also develop and operate the observability platforms that all other engineering teams use to make their services reliable. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with other engineering teams and our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business and regulatory environment.
How will you fulfil your potential?
- Balance feature development velocity and reliability with well-defined SLOs.
- Run the Production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
- Drive incident management process and support a blameless post-mortems culture.
- Partner with development teams to improve services via rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
- Champion reliability and resilience engineering practices and knowledge across the firm.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, with a proven track record in building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems at an enterprise level.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding and/or systems engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting.
- Experience with product engineering practices, algorithms, data structures, software design and/or experience with UNIX operating systems internals and/or networking.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing AI tools and working with Cloud Platforms.
- Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership.
- Coding beyond simple scripts.
- Solving novel problems from first principles.
- Experience working in highly regulated, financial services firms.
- Excellent people leadership skills either as an engineering manager or individual contributor.
WE OFFER BEST-IN-CLASS BENEFITS
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division
INTRODUCTION
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software development and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We also develop and operate the observability platforms that all other engineering teams use to make their services reliable. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with other engineering teams and our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business and regulatory environment.
How will you fulfil your potential?
- Balance feature development velocity and reliability with well-defined SLOs.
- Run the Production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
- Drive incident management process and support a blameless post-mortems culture.
- Partner with development teams to improve services via rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
- Champion reliability and resilience engineering practices and knowledge across the firm.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, with a proven track record in building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems at an enterprise level.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding and/or systems engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting.
- Experience with product engineering practices, algorithms, data structures, software design and/or experience with UNIX operating systems internals and/or networking.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing AI tools and working with Cloud Platforms.
- Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership.
- Coding beyond simple scripts.
- Solving novel problems from first principles.
- Experience working in highly regulated, financial services firms.
- Excellent people leadership skills either as an engineering manager or individual contributor.
WE OFFER BEST-IN-CLASS BENEFITS
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Sre Engineer
Lead with infrastructure experience, not just software skills
SRE hiring managers prioritize candidates who can demonstrate reliability engineering work, not general coding ability. Highlight specific projects involving uptime metrics, on-call rotations, or incident postmortems to show you understand production operations.
Target companies with existing OPT and H-1B sponsorship history
Larger tech firms and cloud-native companies sponsor SRE roles at higher rates than startups. Focus your search on employers with a documented history of sponsoring work visas, which signals familiarity with OPT authorization and willingness to sponsor H-1B visa afterward.
Certify in cloud platforms before applying
AWS, GCP, or Azure certifications materially strengthen SRE applications. They signal baseline infrastructure competency employers expect and reduce onboarding risk, which matters to sponsors weighing the added cost and effort of supporting an OPT authorization process.
Be explicit about your OPT timeline in early conversations
SRE roles often involve long onboarding ramps. Recruiters need to know your OPT end date and whether STEM extension applies so they can assess H-1B sponsorship timing. Raising this early avoids late-stage withdrawals after investing in technical rounds.
Showcase on-call and production ownership experience
Employers sponsoring SRE roles want evidence you can own services end-to-end, not just contribute to them. Document any experience you have managing production systems, responding to alerts, or leading reliability improvements, even from internships or university projects.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for OPT-friendly SRE openings
Searching broadly wastes time on roles that won't consider OPT candidates. Migrate Mate surfaces SRE positions from employers already open to sponsorship, so you can focus your effort on applications with a realistic path to authorization and eventual H-1B transition.
Sre Engineer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as an SRE Engineer on F-1 OPT?
Yes. SRE Engineer roles qualify for F-1 OPT authorization because the work is directly related to STEM fields like computer science, software engineering, and systems engineering. If your degree is in a qualifying STEM field, you're also eligible for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving you up to three years of total OPT work authorization in this role.
Does my SRE job need to be directly related to my degree?
Yes, OPT employment must be directly related to your field of study. For SRE roles, degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, information systems, or related STEM disciplines typically satisfy this requirement. If your degree is in a non-technical field, you should consult your DSO before accepting an SRE position to confirm the connection is defensible.
Which employers are most likely to sponsor SRE Engineers on OPT?
Large technology companies, cloud service providers, and well-funded growth-stage startups are the most active sponsors of SRE roles. Companies running complex distributed systems at scale, such as those in fintech, infrastructure software, and enterprise SaaS, tend to have established processes for supporting OPT and H-1B sponsorship. Migrate Mate lists SRE openings from employers already open to sponsoring international candidates.
Does SRE Engineer work qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not the job title. If your degree appears on the STEM Designated Degree Program List maintained by ICE, you can apply for the 24-month STEM extension. Most computer science, computer engineering, and information technology degrees qualify. The extension requires your employer to enroll in E-Verify and submit a formal training plan with your DSO.
What happens to my OPT authorization if I switch SRE employers?
You can change employers on OPT without reapplying, but you must report the change to your DSO within 10 days. Your new SRE role still needs to be directly related to your degree field, and you cannot have gaps in employment exceeding 90 days on standard OPT. STEM OPT has stricter requirements, including a new I-983 training plan and employer E-Verify enrollment for each employer.