STEM OPT Site Reliability Engineer Jobs
Site Reliability Engineer roles sit squarely within STEM-eligible degree fields, making them a strong fit for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify and co-sign your I-983 training plan. With 36 months of total OPT authorization, you have a realistic runway to transition to long-term sponsorship.
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Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Site Reliability Engineer II
The BizOps team at Mastercard is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who thrives on solving complex problems, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and leading the organization in DevOps automation and best practices.
Are You:
- A natural problem-solver who loves to understand how things work?
- Passionate about CI/CD and obsessed with automation?
- Someone with a low tolerance for manual tasks, always seeking ways to automate?
If yes, we want to hear from you.
About the BizOps Team
Business Operations (BizOps) is at the forefront of Mastercard’s DevOps transformation, leading the charge through tooling, automation, and advocacy across development, quality, release, and product teams.
We’re looking for individuals who:
- Have an appetite for change.
- Push the boundaries of what automation can achieve.
- Build strong relationships across development, operations, and product teams.
Mission
BizOps ensures production readiness by partnering closely with developers to design, build, implement, and support services. Key responsibilities include:
- Ensuring operational excellence in availability, performance, capacity, monitoring, self-healing, and deployment automation.
- Supporting daily operations with a focus on root cause analysis and business impact.
- Driving the “shift-left” approach, engaging early in development to enhance reliability.
- Managing risk and compliance across all environments.
- Standardizing and streamlining traditional support functions.
- Acting as a key communication bridge between internal and external stakeholders.
- Aligning product and customer priorities with operational needs.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the entire service lifecycle – from design to deployment and operations.
- Analyze ITSM platform activities and provide feedback to development teams on operational gaps and resiliency issues.
- Provide system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch readiness support.
- Monitor and maintain system availability, latency, and health.
- Scale systems through automation and reliability-focused improvements.
- Support and improve the CI/CD pipeline for software promotion, enforcing validation and operational gating.
- Lead DevOps automation initiatives and best practices at Mastercard.
- Drive sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
- Take a holistic approach to problem-solving during production incidents, improving Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Work effectively with a globally distributed team across multiple time zones.
- Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers.
Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (e.g., Physics, Mathematics) or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, scripting, software design, and pipeline management.
- Systematic problem-solving approach with excellent communication, ownership, and drive.
- Experience debugging and optimizing code, and automating manual tasks.
- Ability to handle high-pressure situations and make decisions with urgency.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems and troubleshooting them effectively.
- Experience with CI/CD tools, such as:
- Git/BitBucket
- Jenkins
- Maven
- Artifactory
- Chef
- Strong background in designing and implementing efficient CI/CD flows that get code from development to production with high quality and minimal manual effort.
- Proven track record of working across development, operations, and product teams.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $76,000 - $127,000 USD
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Site Reliability Engineer II
The BizOps team at Mastercard is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who thrives on solving complex problems, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and leading the organization in DevOps automation and best practices.
Are You:
- A natural problem-solver who loves to understand how things work?
- Passionate about CI/CD and obsessed with automation?
- Someone with a low tolerance for manual tasks, always seeking ways to automate?
If yes, we want to hear from you.
About the BizOps Team
Business Operations (BizOps) is at the forefront of Mastercard’s DevOps transformation, leading the charge through tooling, automation, and advocacy across development, quality, release, and product teams.
We’re looking for individuals who:
- Have an appetite for change.
- Push the boundaries of what automation can achieve.
- Build strong relationships across development, operations, and product teams.
Mission
BizOps ensures production readiness by partnering closely with developers to design, build, implement, and support services. Key responsibilities include:
- Ensuring operational excellence in availability, performance, capacity, monitoring, self-healing, and deployment automation.
- Supporting daily operations with a focus on root cause analysis and business impact.
- Driving the “shift-left” approach, engaging early in development to enhance reliability.
- Managing risk and compliance across all environments.
- Standardizing and streamlining traditional support functions.
- Acting as a key communication bridge between internal and external stakeholders.
- Aligning product and customer priorities with operational needs.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the entire service lifecycle – from design to deployment and operations.
- Analyze ITSM platform activities and provide feedback to development teams on operational gaps and resiliency issues.
- Provide system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch readiness support.
- Monitor and maintain system availability, latency, and health.
- Scale systems through automation and reliability-focused improvements.
- Support and improve the CI/CD pipeline for software promotion, enforcing validation and operational gating.
- Lead DevOps automation initiatives and best practices at Mastercard.
- Drive sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
- Take a holistic approach to problem-solving during production incidents, improving Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Work effectively with a globally distributed team across multiple time zones.
- Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers.
Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (e.g., Physics, Mathematics) or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, scripting, software design, and pipeline management.
- Systematic problem-solving approach with excellent communication, ownership, and drive.
- Experience debugging and optimizing code, and automating manual tasks.
- Ability to handle high-pressure situations and make decisions with urgency.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems and troubleshooting them effectively.
- Experience with CI/CD tools, such as:
- Git/BitBucket
- Jenkins
- Maven
- Artifactory
- Chef
- Strong background in designing and implementing efficient CI/CD flows that get code from development to production with high quality and minimal manual effort.
- Proven track record of working across development, operations, and product teams.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $76,000 - $127,000 USD
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Site Reliability Engineer
Verify your CIP code matches SRE
Your STEM OPT eligibility depends on your degree's Classification of Instructional Programs code. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Systems CIP codes all support SRE roles. Cross-check your I-20 against the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List before applying.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Only employers actively enrolled in E-Verify can legally employ STEM OPT students. Search the E-Verify employer search tool by company name before your final interview round, not after you receive an offer letter.
Build your I-983 training plan around SRE competencies
Your I-983 must list specific learning objectives tied to your STEM degree. For SRE roles, document skills like distributed systems reliability, incident response, and infrastructure automation rather than generic job duties. Your DSO reviews and approves this before your extension starts.
Target companies with active H-1B LCA filings
Employers filing Labor Condition Applications for SRE and DevOps roles have an established sponsorship process. Use Migrate Mate to filter by employers with verified H-1B visa LCA history in software infrastructure roles, so you're applying where a transition pathway already exists.
Request the I-129 filing timeline during offer negotiation
USCIS cap-subject H-1B petitions are filed in April for an October 1 start. If your STEM OPT expires before October 1 and you're selected in the lottery, the cap-gap provision extends your work authorization automatically. Ask your employer's immigration team about their filing calendar before you sign.
Use O*NET to document the specialty occupation case
SRE roles must qualify as a specialty occupation requiring a STEM bachelor's degree or higher. Pull the O*NET occupation profile for your specific job title and confirm the education requirements align with your degree field before your employer files any petition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Site Reliability Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, SRE roles typically qualify because they require a STEM degree in fields like Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems, all of which appear on the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List. Your qualifying degree field is tied to the CIP code on your I-20, not your job title. Confirm the match with your DSO before your employer files the I-983 training plan.
What does my employer need to do to support my STEM OPT as an SRE?
Your employer must be actively enrolled in E-Verify and must co-sign your I-983 training plan, which documents the specific SRE skills and learning objectives you'll develop on the job. The employer also certifies that your compensation and hours are comparable to similarly situated U.S. workers. USCIS and ICE can audit these records, so both sides need to keep copies throughout your STEM OPT period.
How does cap-gap work if my STEM OPT expires before October 1?
If your employer files an H-1B cap-subject petition on your behalf before your STEM OPT end date and you're selected in the lottery, the cap-gap provision automatically extends your work authorization through September 30 of that year. You can continue working in your SRE role during this period without interruption. USCIS provides specific guidance on cap-gap eligibility on their website.
Can I switch SRE employers while on STEM OPT?
Yes, but you must report the employer change to your DSO within 10 days, and your new employer must also be enrolled in E-Verify. You'll need a new I-983 training plan co-signed by the new employer before your start date. Any gap in employment can raise compliance issues, so coordinate the transition timing carefully with both your current employer and your DSO.
Where can I find SRE employers already set up to hire STEM OPT students?
Migrate Mate filters Site Reliability Engineer jobs by employers with verified E-Verify enrollment and H-1B LCA filing history, so you're not spending time on companies that have never sponsored work authorization. You can search by role, location, and employer sponsorship track record to prioritize applications where the infrastructure for hiring STEM OPT students is already in place.